- Reuters:UPDATE 2-$300 mln pledged to buy Ebola vaccines as NewLink shot hits snag 8 minutes ago
"* GAVI pledges up to $300 mln for 12 mln vaccine courses * Further funding of up to $90 mln to help vaccine roll-out (Wraps stories on GAVI funding, NewLink vaccine trial, adds GAVI CEO comment) By Ben Hirschler and Stephanie Nebehay …"
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- News24: UN says several months needed to control Ebola 2 minutes ago
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- Reuters: UPDATE 1-Sierra Leone locks down new Ebola hotspot in the east 2 minutes ago
"The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed 6,533 people in the three West African countries most hit by the disease -- Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea -- and infected 18,118 people, the World Health Organization said on Thursday Sierra Leone, with a ..."
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- ThompsonReutersFoundation: American nurse exposed to Ebola arrives at treatment center 5 minutes ago
"NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - An American nurse who was exposed to Ebola while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone arrived at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center in Maryland on Thursday, NIH said in a statement."
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- Forbes: Ebola Response Reveals Double Standard In U.S. Health Care 31 minutes ago
"Since Ebola was first discovered in 1976, there have been an estimated 16 to 22 recorded outbreaks. In August, the World Health Organization designated the most recent outbreak a global emergency. Ebola is a …"
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- ScienceDaily: Ebola virus may replicate in an exotic way 4 minutes ago
"University of Utah researchers ran biochemical analysis and computer simulations of a livestock virus to discover a likely and exotic mechanism to explain the replication of related viruses such as Ebola, measles and …"
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- FoxNews: Bodies of Ebola victims found piled up in Sierra Leone hospital 3 hours ago
"Health officials in Sierra Leone fear a major Ebola outbreak may have gone largely unreported until now in a remote district where the World Health Organization (WHO) said scores of bodies piled up in a hospital. The …"
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- KING5: Nina Pham still has Ebola nightmares 3 minutes ago
"Nina Pham still has Ebola nightmares Dallas nurse Nina Pham is humbled to be among the Ebola fighters recognized as Time magazine's Person of the Year. She smiled through much of her own battle with the …"
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- NJOnline: Lynden International partners with Gates Foundation in Ebola treatment initiative 1 minute ago
"SEATTLE, Dec. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Lynden International, a full-service freight forwarding and logistics company, was named a key industry and foundation partner in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's launch of a $5.7 million effort to support Ebola ..."
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- WCYB: URGENT - Ebola-Exposure-Patient-NIH 3 minutes ago
"(CNN) -- The National Institutes of Health's medical facility in Bethesda, Maryland, "expects to admit a patient with exposure to the Ebola virus ... for observation," NIH said. The patient is an American nurse who had been volunteering in an Ebola ..."
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- NBC: The Brewer Group CEO H.E. Ambassador Jack Brewer to participate in United Nations Business Collaboration for Global Ebola Response 1 minute ago
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- EconomicTimes: Red Cross urges Ebola vigilance before Christmas 2 hours ago
"LONDON: The Red Cross on Thursday urged vigilance against a possible spread of the Ebola virus as holiday travel picks up for the Christmas season in west Africa. "There may be a risk of waves of infection if not all …"
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- AllAfrica: Liberia: Ebola Outbreak Contained in Lofa County, MSF Hands Over Activities 1 hour ago
"Liberia: Ebola Outbreak Contained in Lofa County, MSF Hands Over Activities The Ebola situation has improved in Lofa County and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to withdraw from the area. New actors have arrived to help and since 30 October there have been no more Ebola patients in the Ebola Management Centre …"
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- PremiumTimes: BREAKING: Sudan repatriates 26 Nigerians over Ebola fears 1 hour ago
"The Sudanese authorities have denied 26 Nigerians entry into their country over suspicion that they were possibly infected by the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, one of those repatriated has told PREMIUM TIMES.
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- WFMD: Ebola Patient Transfer Will Not Take Place at Frederick Municipal Airport 2 hours ago
"An American nurse who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone is being admitted to the National Institutes of Health near Washington, D.C. The NIH says in a statement that the nurse was …"
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- IRIN: Mistrust of government spurs Ebola spread 1 hour ago
"NAIROBI, 3 September 2014 (IRIN) - Decades of corruption, deep-rooted mistrust of government and weak public services in Liberia have hastened the spread of the Ebola virus, and much more needs to be done to bridge a communication gap between …"
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- VOX: My uncle was the first person to die from Ebola in America. And I think President Obama wronged him. 1 hour ago
"Josephus Weeks is the nephew of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in America. In late September he found out that Duncan — a Liberian man who was visiting the US for the first time — had been hospitalized in Dallas.
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- NaturalNews: US military converting transport planes to carry wave of infected Ebola victims to the United States 18 hours ago
NaturalNews) It seems in the age of Obama that the U.S. military is slowly making the transformation from the planet's most powerful fighting force to one giant charity provider. As most Americans know, the president has ordered thousands of U.S. troops ...
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