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Liberia: 'You Ain't Know Ebola in Town?'
allAfrica, 9 July 2014
The kids chatted happily as they gathered around a community well, carrying buckets and jerry cans to fill with water for their households. They were in a buoyant mood, but it… Read more »
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West Africa: Defying the Ebola Odds in Sierra Leone
IPS, 12 July 2014
Adikali Kamara is a 36-year-old student nurse working in the government hospital in Kenema, a sprawling town on the fringe of the Sierra Leone's Gola tropical rain forest. Read more »
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West Africa: Misconceptions Fuel Ebola Outbreak
Unicef, 11 July 2014
As the Ebola-related death toll rises above 500 in West Africa, UNICEF and its partners are expanding their activities across the region to halt the spread of the disease by… Read more »
Liberia: 'You Ain't Know Ebola in Town?'
As the World Health Organization announces that the number of fatalities from the deadly Ebola virus has risen to more than 500, allAfrica's Boakai Fofana, who heads the Monrovia bureau, blogs about how Liberians are coping amid some denial about the existence of the disease in that country.
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Liberia: Health Workers Flee Ebola
New Dawn, 10 July 2014
Health workers in Liberia are said to be fleeing and returning from their areas of assignment due to the increasing number of Ebola patients. Some are said to have died from… Read more »
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West Africa: Ebola Outbreak Claims More Than 500
VOA, 8 July 2014
The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak has climbed to 518. Read more »
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Liberia: Ebola Hits Cape Mount - First Suspected Ebola Case Recorded
Heritage, 9 July 2014
The first suspected case of the deadly Ebola disease has been recorded at the St. Timothy Government Hospital in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County. Read more »
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Liberia: Legislature to Allot Over U.S.$1 Million to Eradicate Ebola Virus
FrontPageAfrica, 9 July 2014
The Plenary of the Liberian Senate has unanimously voted in favor of a recommendation from the Health Committee for an amount of one million and five hundred thousand United States… Read more »
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West Africa: What Happens To Your Body When You Get Ebola?
The Conversation Africa, 9 July 2014
By Derek Gatherer, Lancaster University Read more »
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Liberia: 16 New Ebola Cases in Liberia
New Dawn, 9 July 2014
The World Health Organization or WHO has reported 16 new cases of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia. Read more »
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Liberia: 'No Proper Treatment Given 'Ebola Suspects''
Analyst, 8 July 2014
The Deputy Coordinator for the Human Rights Protection Forum of Liberia, Ms.Korpo S. Kortimaihas observed many suspected ebola patients are dying in the hospitals owing to lack of… Read more »
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8 July 2014
Africa's Ebola Reality
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VOA's health correspondent Linord Moudou reports on how a young Ebola patient in Guinea returns to his village after receiving treatment from Doctors ... see more »
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Residents of the densely populated New Kru Town community in Monrovia are going about their normal business, with some questioning the veracity of news reports that several people ... Read more »
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on all Liberians to now see the Ebola epidemic as a national public health emergency, saying anyone found or reported to be holding ... Read more »
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The deadly Ebola virus, which is continuing to spread in the region, has now claimed the lives of 337 people, the World Health Organization has announced. Read more »
