Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
"A patient admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital Tuesday amid concerns he might have Ebola has tested positive for malaria, with an initial test for Ebola coming back negative, the hospital said Wednesday. But "
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"IBM has engineered a way for everyone to join the fight against Ebola ? by donating processing time on their personal computers, phones or tablets to researchers. IBM has teamed with scientists at Scripps Research "
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"NEW YORK (AP) An American health-care worker in West Africa who may have been infected with Ebola is being flown to the United States. A spokeswoman for Atlantas Emory University Hospital on Wednesday confirmed the patient is being flown "/i>
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"NBC News medical reporter Nancy Snyderman apologized on the "Today" show Wednesday for violating her quarantine for Ebola exposure, saying she failed to appreciate how frightened Americans were of the disease."
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"The city will seek partial reimbursement from the state for expenses incurred after Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan became ill while visiting relatives in Dallas, city officials said in a statement. Duncan died on Oct. 8. Two nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson ..."
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"The City of Dallas released a list of its Ebola-related expenses incurred during the city's encounter with the deadly virus and care for Bentley, the dog of now Ebola-free nurse Nina Pham, made up nearly a fifth of the "
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"3 December 2014 The United Nations Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, today took his message directly to the people of Liberia, applauding them for the progress made so far in combating the virus, but "
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"The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have been named Ebola treatment centers by state health officials, the Department of Health and Human Services announced "
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"WASHINGTON/MONROVIA - The World Bank on Tuesday pledged further assistance to Liberia, the country worst hit by Ebola, and revealed that the epidemic would cost more than $2 billion across the region, causing "
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"Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Wednesday afternoon that a patient who had been suspected of having Ebola has tested negative for the virus. The initial test on the patient admitted Tuesday with "
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"No Ohio hospitals are on a list of 35 designated Ebola treatment centers released by the federal government yesterday, but that could change as more hospitals in more states are identified as hubs for care of patients ",/I>
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"Thomas Muyunga lost his job as a home health care worker in San Francisco when two of his clients kicked him out of their houses, saying that because hes from Africa, they were afraid he might be carrying Ebola. Other African immigrants in the Bay "
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"As medical volunteers return to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Africa, confusion about the disease and how it is transmitted has raised public anxiety levels and public health questions. Michael Willrich "
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" [Two Texas hospitals designated for Ebola care] NEW YORK (AP) Health officials have designated 35 hospitals across the country as Ebola treatment centers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the list of hospitals on Tuesday. Most are "
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"The US Senate has passed legislation that would overhaul the Neglected Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) system in the hopes of making it more enticing to pharmaceutical companies, and in particular "
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"The World Health Organization says data from the Ebola outbreak are too poor to measure how many patients have been isolated and how many corpses were safely buried, after saying it was making good progress in those areas. On Monday, the agency "
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"Microdermis' antiseptic skin product Provodine--which incorporates a novel dermal delivery system--has been adopted by the U.S. Army and will be used in West Africa against Ebola. Provodine meets or exceeds the FDA requirements for use as a surgical "
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"A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response. Peter Piot, an award-winning microbiologist, told Al Jazeera that "
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"Ebola hit Sierra Leone has quarantined more than half of the country's population of six million, in six of the nation's 14 districts. In an effort to stem the spread of the disease which is spiraling out of control, Tonkolili, a "
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"Europe must send more medical boots to West Africa and help rebuild local health systems to help tackle the outbreak of Ebola, the EU's Ebola coordinator said in an interview. Christos Stylianides told AFP this week "
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"Sometimes you stumble across statistics that just scream at you. I was looking this week through some reports on the Liberian Ministry of Health's website. The screaming statistic was an "8" listed as the number of "
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"SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Metabiota Inc., announced today that the European Commission (EC) has awarded funding to the Company to work with European and Canadian collaborators on an advanced project aimed at validating both "
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"Hyderabad: A man from Hyderabad, whose samples were sent for testing as a measure of caution against Ebola after his return from Nigeria, tested negative for the disease, an official said on Tuesday.The 52-year-old's "
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"Peacefmonline.com can confirm that Ghana is currently investigating another suspected case of Ebola, further heightening the fear that the contagious viral hemorrhagic fever is spreading in West Africa. The suspected "
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"Freetown, Dec 2: The World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of people infected with Ebola has passed 17,000, as Sierra Leone announced that its 10th doctor has been sickened. Numbers released today "
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"NEW YORK - Health officials have designated 35 hospitals across the country as Ebola treatment centers, including three in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the list of hospitals "
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"Kumasi, Dec. 3, GNA The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate Ebola Response Team has taken for test the blood samples of a suspected Ebola patient who is on admission at Kwame Nkrumah University of "
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"JERSEY CITY, N.J., December 3, 2014 - ISO has developed two new coverage options to help businesses when government authorities take steps to control the spread of Ebola. ISO is a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. The first endorsement "
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"Glen Cove Hospital is now one of 35 Ebola treatment facilities in America that will be designated as a treatment center. The hospital has a third floor entrance, treatment rooms and a testing lab. The other designated "
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"Emory University Hospital announcd they will be monitoring a possible Ebola patient. "An American health care worker from West Africa who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus is being transferred to Emory "
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"From his office in the Ghanaian coastal city of Tema, Mark Owiredu has an up-close view of how Ebola is ravaging the economies of poorer African nations to the west. Since the outbreak of the disease was identified "
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"Results from a Phase 1 clinical trial conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on a possible Ebola vaccine are leading to accelerated development of the candidate vaccine, NIH announced November 28."
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"Once a patient infected with the Ebola hemorrhagic virus starts showing symptoms ... Further complicating the process, Ebola symptoms are very similar to those of other fevers, such as typhoid and malaria. Because time is of the essence in tracking ..."
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"Case fatality rates in past outbreaks of EVD have ranged from less than 50% to more than 80%,4and even limited supportive care probably improves survival rates. Thus, the historical case fatality rates are irrelevant if current study patients receive ..."
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"The lack of established EVD treatment and isolation facilities in this northern, Sahelian zone of the country, combined with a higher than usual degree of resistance among local communities to safe burial practices, make this area vulnerable to an increase ..."
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"Freetown The President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma commended the Chinese government for its continued support and commitment to the ongoing fight against the spreading Ebola virus disease (EVD) on Tuesday. Koroma made the remarks "
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"The CDC and the health department provided the packets to travelers returning from West Africa. The packet also includes a surgical mask if symptoms develop and they have to go to the hospital. Health department "
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"PAUL It's been five weeks since Minnesota began monitoring travelers arriving from ... and quickly contain possible Ebola cases in the U.S. Travelers arriving from Ebola-infected West African countries are asked to "
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"Anyone who has traveled from four West African nations is monitored for three weeks ... Officials had to send their disease detectives out to track down the travelers. Monitoring is not the best way to control Ebola in the U.S., said Dr. Jay Varma, deputy .."
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"The Michigan Department of Community Health is monitoring 11 such travelers for symptoms of the deadly virus ... As long as Ebola is spreading in West Africa, we must prepare for the possibility of additional cases in the United States, CDC Director ..."
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"Ohio has had no Ebola cases, though officials are monitoring the health of certain travelers with connections to West Africa. They also monitored people who had contact with a Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola after she visited Ohio. None of those people ..."
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"Travelers from four West African nations most affected by Ebola are now required to arrive in one of five specific U.S. airports, where they undergo enhanced screening for Ebola virus disease symptoms. 4. National active monitoring guidance now exists ..."
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"Thirty healthy volunteers in Britain who have already received the experimental Ebola vaccine being developed by GSK and the U.S. National Institutes of Health will get the booster shot, researchers said on Thursday."
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"Everybody and his uncle, it seems, has an idea of something that might work to cure people infected with the deadly virus Dr. John M. Dye, Jr., U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) "
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"Are you thinking of the Ebola outbreak as a flash-in-the-pan, a problem weve outdistanced? Think again: Ebola virus and other emerging infectious diseases for which we dont have effective treatments are the reality in public health. And theyre ..."
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"KOINADUGU, Sierra Leone His daughter had just been coaxed into an ambulance bound for the Ebola center. As Foday Kalma watched, his neighbors and relatives crowded around the vehicle, wailing that she was "
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"A MAN who recently visited Sierra Leone is being tested for Ebola in a Perth hospital after presenting with symptoms similar to the virus. Seven News reports that the patient was recently in Sierra Leone and is being "
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"Sierra Leone recorded 537 new Ebola cases in the week to Nov. 30, against 385 the previous week, the WHO said in its latest update. "Transmission remains persistent and intense across the country with the "
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"Early this week, Ebola survivors swarmed the entrance of the Hastings Treatment Centre (HTC), to seek for jobs after being stigmatized from their previous jobs, families and friends. One of the survivors explained that "
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"We are nearing the end of the year 2014, the moment to find out who will win the TIME The Person of the Year poll. Since the year 1927, the TIMEs poll chooses a person who in the past year has had huge
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"Sheik Ahmed Sesay grew up convinced that touching and washing was essential to grant the dead a peaceful passage into the next life. But lately, Sesay has been meeting with other religious leaders here in Sierra "
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"Washington (AFP) - A US health care worker who has been assisting efforts in west Africa has been flown to the United States to be tested for Ebola in Atlanta, a spokeswoman said. Emory University Hospital will "
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"U.S. court halts execution of mentally ill Texas death row inmate By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some five million children are out of school in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because of "
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"Monrovia, Liberia During the American Revolution, George Washington used part of the Continental Armys scarce budget to purchase quinine for the treatment of malaria in his troops. According to Professor Dale "
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"Dec 4 (Reuters) - Bavarian Nordic A/S : * Says announces first subject dosed with MVA-BN Filo in a Phase 1 study investigating a new prime-boost regimen of ebola candidate vaccines Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Gdynia Newsroom)"
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"Health-care team says his condition 'challenging' (ANSA) - Rome, December 4 - The Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while fighting the epidemic in Sierra Leone has developed a new fever - a worrying condition "
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"At a top security Ministry of Defence lab, tears were found in isolation suits at a facility handling animals infected with the Ebola virus. Reports obtained by the Guardian from the Health and Safety Executive reveal that "
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""CBP personnel will continue to observe all travelers ... on how to self-monitor and be asked to fill out a daily temperature log and give officials their contact information. Exit screenings are already in place in the affected "
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"A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital said."
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"An Italian doctor suffering from Ebola is in intensive care after his condition worsened, a spokeswoman for the hospital treating him said on Friday. The 50-year-old Sicilian contracted Ebola while working for the "
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"A U.N. peacekeeper in Liberia has contracted Ebola and is being treated at a clinic in the capital Monrovia, becoming the third member of the mission infected by the deadly virus since the outbreak began. The United "
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"Simple intravenous fluid drips could save the lives of many West African Ebola patients, but are being neglected because of a perception that there is no effective treatment for the disease, specialist doctors said on Friday. "Ebola treatment centers must ..."
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"The Ebola virus, indiscriminate and opportunistic, has infected more than 17,000 people in West Africa, the World Health Organization reports. But some observers fear the epidemic may be exacting an especially heavy "
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"GULFPORT, Miss. - A spokeswoman says 15 Gulfport Seabees who built a treatment center in Liberia all are free of the Ebola virus and have been released from military quarantine at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia."
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"The latest entrant into Islamic finance is leading the industry in the new direction of socially responsible investment which could even include the fight against Ebola. Last week an immunisation programme secured a "
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"Conakry (AFP) - Dozens of youths in the Guinean capital Conakry staged an angry protest against a new Ebola treatment centre on Thursday, halting the launch of the construction project, according to an AFP reporter "
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"KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) Dr. Michael Mawanda saw some disturbing behaviors when he was in Sierra Leone helping fight the Ebola epidemic, including relatives removing patients from the hospital where he worked."
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"If you think the fight against Ebola is going well, here's a grim new number: 537. That's how many new infections were reported in Sierra Leone in the past week. It's the highest weekly tally in any country since the
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"West Africas Ebola pandemic is far from over and the confirmed death total has surpassed 6,070. As it slows down in Liberia, the number of cases is accelerating in Sierra Leone, according to the World Health "
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"Riyadh, Dec 5 (IANS): Saudi Arabia has appointed a woman, Tamara Tayeb, to lead the country's fight against the Ebola virus disease, media reported Friday. Deputy Commander of the Command and Control Centre (CCC) at the Saudi health ministry "
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"COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- A Cobb County Jail inmate pleaded guilty this week to causing an Ebola scare after being pulled over for driving drunk. In addition to misdemeanor charges of DUI and failure to maintain lane "
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"District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray has declared Dec. 5 Ebola Awareness Day as the city hosts a national summit on how to halt the virus' spread. The summit is being held Friday at the Washington Convention "
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"A state Ebola task force recommends creating a bio-containment unit to specialize in the care of children and identifying quarantine facilities for animals. In a 174-page final report released Thursday, the Texas Task "
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"OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - IBM has engineered a way for everyone to join the fight against Ebola by donating processing time on their personal computers, phones or tablets to researchers. IBM has teamed with "
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"Well-designed randomized clinical trials provide the most efficient path to finding an effective treatment for Ebola virus disease (EVD), according to a perspective article by three staff physicians at the US Food and Drug ",/i>
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"The widespread misconception that there are no proven treatments for Ebola virus disease has meant that simple treatments - especially intravenous fluids and electrolytes, which could reduce the number of deaths caused by the virus - have been neglected ..."
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"A Rwandan woman is suspected to have died of the Ebola virus in the east-central African country, a hospital director said Wednesday. "A woman was rushed to hospital bleeding from her nose and ears and died "
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"If you are travelling from Africa to London, New York, Amsterdam or most Western Airports, make sure you don't cough or sneeze before an immigration officer or else they will suspect you of having symptoms of Ebola. You will immediately be bundled off "
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"GENEVA, Switzerland, December 5, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ IOM, in close collaboration with the Malian governments Emergency Operations Center and the UN World Health Organization (WHO) "
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"Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Tshekedi Khama says perceptions about Ebola remain a big challenge facing Botswanas tourism industry, state run Daily news reported here on Friday.Speaking at the official opening of the Botswana Travel "
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"NEW YORK, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A high level of concern and an equally high level of ignorance about medical facts, real or perceived, continue to fuel conversations about Ebola in social media and the press, even as the disease drops ..."
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"(WBIR-Knoxville) What has become an epidemic in some African countries is now a focus in a Knoxville-based laboratory. "There's a need for a vaccine...to specifically treat Ebola," said Dr. William Smith, president of "
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"DALLAS (AP) A Texas task force on Ebola released its full report Thursday, recommending the state create a bio-containment unit for children, identify quarantine facilities for potentially infected animals and stockpile personal protective equipment."
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"The Local Unit Commander at the Tongo Police Division, Superintendent Francis Songu has accused Ebola health workers, in particular burial teams, contact tracers and surveillance staff of reckless disposal of safety "
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"The Ebola virus disease, previously known as the Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe illness in humans, often fatal, according to the WHO. The virus is passed on to people from wild animals and can be transmitted from humans to humans. The average EVD ..."
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"Mali is the sixth country to have confirmed Ebola in West Africa, which is battling the worlds worst epidemic of the hemorrhagic fever on record. Ebola has claimed more than 5,000 victims, almost all from Liberia "
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"This standard will be for use in EVD trials, leading to potential treatments and public health surveillance for this disease. Austin, Texas and Oxford, UK (PRWEB) December 04, 2014 The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and the "
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"KATHMANDU, DEC 05 - The government will pay a compensation of Rs 2.5 million to health workers that succumb to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) while treating patients infected with the ominous virus. The Cabinet meeting on Thursday approved the "
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"Lagos The Immediate past Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Professor Akin Osibogun, has attributed successes recorded by the country against the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to the relatively ..."
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"At a national level, there is now sufficient bed capacity in Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) treatment facilities to treat and isolate all reported EVD cases in each of the three countries, although the uneven distribution of "
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"The HHS state noted that, because of active monitoring from Ebola-stricken countries, "federal health officials have a clear sense of where travelers from affected countries in West Africa are going and where Ebola "
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American possibly exposed to Ebola being transferred to Atlanta hospital
Cruz: Vanity (on the treatment of our troops in the hot zone and afterwards).
Book Review: Ebola Understanding & Preparing For An Outbreak
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2014/12/06/book-review-ebola-understanding-preparing-for-an-outbreak/
A close family member, who lives in Europe, flew stateside three weeks ago. He and his wife went through customs in Atlanta, GA. I asked him if he saw any "enhanced ebola screening" and this was his response:
No I did not . . . there were only two flights that arrived when we did - both from Europe so the lines were short. They probably figured that everyone was safe. The passport control is now automated; slip your passport into a card reader and follow the instructions. One of the easiest & fastest processing times that Ive had in ATL.
Some monitoring...
"FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) A health official says another Sierra Leonean doctor has died from Ebola, the 10th to succumb to the disease. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brima Kargbo confirmed Sunday that Dr. Aiah Solomon Konoyeima died a day earlier."
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"Paynesville, Liberia Joint service Soldiers participated in a weekly class to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. The Department of Defense Ebola Treatment Training Team taught the class in support of Operation "
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"King County Health officials say a man is being tested for Ebola at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Public Health spokesman James Apa says the possibility that the man has Ebola is low. He had been traveling in Mali in West Africa and Friday night ..."
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"The White Houses Ebola czar is expected to leave after his 130-day assignment, with the deadly virus now appearing under control in the United States. The news that Ron Klain, a veteran Democratic operative and "
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"TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man faces a fine after telling doctors he had travelled to Africa and had symptoms of Ebola, sparking emergency quarantine measures at a hospital, officials said Sunday (Dec 7). The 19-year-old "
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"Beatrice and Dominic stare up at me a white stranger standing next to them in a muddy, water-drenched back street in Monrovias notorious West Point, the Liberian capitals largest slum. Beatrice, aged three "
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"Dr. Joseph Howard Meier was well into his overnight ER shift when he first saw the patient. The man complained of a headache and abdominal pain. Meier looked him over, checked his vital signs and ordered tests. After "
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"In combating the deadly Ebola disease, residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have resorted to eating of bitter kola (believed to be the cure for the Ebola virus). Although Kola has not been scientifically certified "
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"AMSTERDAMDutch health officials said a U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia is expected to arrive in the Netherlands for treatment on Saturday. Health Ministry spokeswoman Inge Freriksen said the unidentified man, a Nigerian national, is ..."
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"Two people returning from West Africa, where they were exposed to Ebola, have agreed to a 21-day home quarantine, the governor said Saturday. Neither person shows any sign of the deadly virus. The state is "
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"Workers in high-security UK labs have been accidentally exposed to some of the most deadly viruses and bacteria known to man. A whole series of more than 100 accidents or near-misses have been reported to "
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"County health officials said Saturday that they were testing a King County resident for possible Ebola. Public Health - Seattle & King County said the patient, who was being monitored after travel from Mali, had a fever
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"ALBANY, N.Y. -- Two people returning to New York state from West Africa, where they were exposed to Ebola, have agreed to a 21-day home quarantine but show no symptoms of the virus, the governor said Saturday.
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"America will soon have to get used to going without incredibly profound Ebola updates. Longtime Democratic political operative Ronald Klain, who President Obama named Ebola czar in spite of having no particular "
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"The Canadian Armed Forces is sending a medical unit to Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone to help in the fight against the deadly virus. The team departed Canada on Saturday morning bound for the U.K. where team "
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"Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says 82 New Zealanders have registered their interest in joining the international fight against Ebola. "There has been a very high level of response from New Zealanders who are keen to support the Australian-flagged ..."
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"Associated Press ATLANTA An American health-care worker who may have been infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa has arrived at a hospital near Atlanta. Security image: (Case sensitive) Note: the e-mail sent will contain information, such as "
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"Information contained on this page is provided by NewsUSA, an independent third-party content provider. WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. (NewsUSA) - The recent Ebola outbreak in the U.S. has, if ..."
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"APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) The eleventh Sierra Leonean doctor to have contracted the Ebola virus while on duty has died of the disease. Dr Solomon Konoyima died late on Saturday, according to sources, after over a "
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"However, employers seeking to limit employee travel to West Africa may face legal risk ... Because the CDC has issued monitoring recommendations for individuals who have traveled to outbreak locations regardless of "
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"When the Ebola virus found the remote village of Tappita, it took more than a day for it to be properly diagnosed. Soon, it will take a matter of minutes. A new Ebola Treatment " TimesofIndia: An Ebola doctors return from the edge of death 3 minutes ago
"PHOENIX: The medical record, from an Ebola case, made for grim reading, but Dr. Ian Crozier could not put it down. Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life. He became delirious "
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"The U.K. government and British charity Save the Children are under scrutiny for the management of an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, the West African nation poised to overtake Liberia as the worst-affected country. The epidemic is spreading in ..."
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"Sierra Leones chief medical officer has said he is baffled by the deaths of three doctors from Ebola over a three-day period. Dr. Brima Kargbo said a survey conducted jointly with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control "
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"GENEVA (AP) The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a "
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"A couple months after the Pentagon set out to find a system that would help transport Ebola patients aboard its aircraft, a contractor delivered. As described by the Defense Department, the system isolates the patient, filters the air that moves through ..."
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"Washington (AFP) - A US doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and survived after weeks of intensive treatment in Atlanta is speaking out for the first time in an interview published Sunday. Ian Crozier -- who until "
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"West Africa is currently facing the largest and most complex Ebola epidemic on record. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the most affected countries. The disease has already claimed more than 6 000 lives and has seen over 17 000 cases. The European ..."
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"In his Presidential Address to Parliament during Fridays State Opening, President Ernest Koroma emphasized his Governments determination to tackle the spread of the Ebola disease, and warned that whoever "
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"Liberia is the country hardest hit by the epidemic and has recorded more than 3,000 deaths out of a total from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea of 6,055 victims, according to World Health Organization figures on "
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"A group of Ghanaian and Nigerian nationals has petitioned a local court in Trinidad to stop their deportation because they are likely to contract the deadly Ebola virus. The West Africans, according to Immigration officials "
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"A local woman is under voluntary quarantine after coming into direct contact with Ebola patients in West Africa. That woman tells us she just returned from Liberia, at the heart of the Ebola epidemic. Lucille Frisicano is "
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"DARTMOUTH With public concern about Ebola generally on the wane, the possibility of local cases remains a concern for area health professionals. To deal with the event of a case of the disease in the southeastern "
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"Dr. Ian Crozier, 44, says he is the American doctor who was treated for the Ebola virus at Emory University Hospital in early September. Crozier, who initially asked the hospital not to release his identity to protect his family's privacy, says he is ..."
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"King County health officials say initial tests run on a man who recently returned from Mali in West Africa, a country with a small number of Ebola cases, have come back negative. The man had developed a slight fever
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"The greatest revelation from the Ebola crisis was how much healthcare and economic infrastructure upgrades are badly needed in Africa. World Finance speaks to Rupert Scofield President and CEO of FINCA "
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"Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. Ebola has had a brutal impact on the economies of three West African nations at the epicenter of the outbreak. In Liberia "
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"PHILADELPHIA (CBS) More than five-million children are out of school in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone as the countries continue to fight the deadly Ebola virus. So a South Jersey group is working to help "
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"About 60 per cent of the nation's medical institutions specially designated to treat infectious diseases feel they are not properly prepared to accept and treat a patient with Ebola, with staff shortages and a lack of "
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"Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Treatment units in Liberia stand nearly empty, but a dozen or so Ebola cases still appear each day, with clusters in Monrovia and rural areas. The CDC's chief there ..."
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"A refurbished Lufthansa Airbus A340 manned by volunteers became the worlds most advanced evacuation plane for contagious Ebola patients. Two weeks ago the German government received the worlds first plane "
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"To the editor: The recent downturn in travelers to Africa's safari belt surely stems, as Clarissa Hughes concludes, from irrational fears about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. ("Canceling safaris over misplaced Ebola fear hurts Africa and its wildlife ..."<.i>
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"NOBEL Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have joined forces with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to plead for safe schools in three nations worst hit by Ebola. NOBEL Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash
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"There are some things you cannot and should not do for others, even for their ostensible good.1 These are the words of Dr. Mark Amstutz, professor of Political Science at Wheaton College. Amstutz made this "
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One shot or two? Many questions unresolved in Ebola vaccine race
U.S. Nurse Being Watched at NIH for Ebola (Oustide of D.C.)
Sierra Leone area to hold 2-week Ebola 'lockdown' (Medical Martial Law)
Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photographer who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his images capturing people in dire circumstances from a natural disaster in Colombia to drugs and poverty in Miami to a prestigious military hospital dispensing unsatisfactory care in Washington died on Thursday while on assignment in Liberia. He was 58.
Mr. du Cille suffered a heart attack and collapsed during a hike from a village where he had been covering the Ebola crisis with a reporter, The Posts executive editor, Martin Baron, said in a note to the newsroom. He was driven to a hospital, where he was declared dead.
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"Recently, he had been covering Ebola patients and those who care for them. In an essay in October, he wrote that he felt compelled to cover the crisis despite the risk of becoming infected. He was completely devoted to the story of Ebola, and he was determined to stay on the story despite its risks, Mr. Baron said. That is the sort of courage and passion he displayed throughout his career. His travels to West Africa led Syracuse University to disinvite him in October from participating in a journalism workshop after a student expressed concern.
I wrote this today:
DHS Stops Screening Aliens for Leprosy, Starts Asking about Ebola and Plague
http://shtfdashboard.com/pandemic/ebola-alert/dhs-stops-screening-aliens-for-leprosy-starts-asking-about-ebola-and-plague/
And it’s also wheels up on Ebola Air. Just got the flight plan in for latest leg. Dulles -> Dekalb. That’s Emory by way of Bethesda?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N163PA
Thank you.
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Washington Post Photographer, Michel du Cille, Dies in Liberia
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