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West Africa: Ebola a Blow for Fragile States On the Road to Recovery
ISS, 22 August 2014
It seems like a cruel twist of fate. The three African countries where the Ebola virus has rapidly spread and caused over 1 300 deaths since January - namely Guinea, Liberia and… Read more »
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West Africa: Ebola Exposes Shocking Gaps
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 August 2014
A decade ago, scientists would have laughed at the idea of Ebola as a public health emergency of international concern. Today, they are shocked at the glaring gaps the deadly virus… Read more »
Ebola a Blow for Fragile West African States
It seems like a cruel twist of fate. The three African countries where the Ebola virus has rapidly spread and caused over 1 300 deaths since January - namely Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - have all been emerging from protracted periods of crisis and war. And now this, writes Liesl Louw-Vaudran from the Institute for Security Studies.
The emergency ward at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, the largest referral hospital in the country, closed down for a period after some of its staff were infected with Ebola.
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West Africa: With Better Ebola Response, 'Outbreak Would Be Over' - CDC's Frieden
allAfrica, 25 August 2014
As a fifth African country on Sunday announced Ebola deaths, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), left for Liberia, Sierra… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - Africa Must Invest in Public Health Infrastructure
Vanguard, 22 August 2014
Nigerians and West Africans alike are getting overwhelmed and disgusted with all the daily events about the Ebola Virus (EBV) outbreak in the past few weeks in Nigeria and other… Read more »
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West Africa: Funding, Coordination May Affect Fight Against Ebola
VOA, 21 August 2014
This month, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a global public health emergency. Read more »
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West Africa: Humane World Cannot Let West Africa Suffer 'On Such Extraordinary Scale' - UN Health Chief
UN News, 21 August 2014
The newly-appointed United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola today began his visit to countries affected by the deadly disease, as the head of the UN World Health Organization… Read more »
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Kenya: Why Wait for Ebola to Fix Our Health Sector ?
The Star, 22 August 2014
Let's make one thing clear. Ebola is not an easy disease to catch. Derek Gatherer, a virologist at Britain's University of Lancaster, recently told Reuters that the virus is not… Read more »
InFocus
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Nobody who has been working on the Ebola crisis in Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia thinks the international response is anywhere close to what's needed to avert mounting disaster ... Read more »
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As the two Americans who were infected with the deadly Ebola virus recover, health authorities in West Africa have also continued to discharge more people, including 13 this week ... Read more »
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Information Minister Lambert Mende has said the new cases were discovered in a small town in the country's northern Equateur province, adding that there is no connection between ... Read more »
