"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 we’ve outdistanced? Think again: Ebola virus and other emerging infectious diseases for which we don’t have effective treatments are the reality in public health. And they’re ..."
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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 TIME’s 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 Army’s 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 Africa’s 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 government’s 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 Botswana’s 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 world’s 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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