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WHO Chief To Meet Congo President, As Group Warns Ebola Likely Spread Undetected For Months
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for more international support to stop the disease's spread before he travelled to Congo's Ituri province where the first cases were confirmed.
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WHO Chief Lands In Eastern Congo's Ituri Province, Epicenter Of Ebola, As Outbreak Outpaces Response
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to visit a treatment center and meet local authorities, health workers and affected families in Bunia.
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Ebola Alert: Surveillance, Health Screening Measures Intensified At Kochi Airport
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Health authorities have intensified surveillance and precautionary measures against the Ebola virus at Cochin International Airport, in Kerala's Kochi, following an emergency preparedness meeting jointly convened by Cochin In
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India Strengthens Ebola Screening, Centre Holds High-Level Review Meet After WHO Alert
India has intensified Ebola surveillance and preparedness measures after fresh concerns over Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa. The Health Ministry says no Ebola case has been detected in India, while states and UTs have been asked to strengthen sc
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Global Health Alert: WHO Assembly Begins Amid Hantavirus And Ebola Outbreaks
World Health Organization member states gather for their annual meeting in Geneva Monday amid concern over deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks and uncertainty over...
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5 Points On Marburg Virus And New Outbreak In African Country
The WHO held an emergency meeting after nine people died from the an outbreak of the Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea. It causes infection as deadly as Ebola, and the outbreak-hit province has been placed under quarantine.
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WHO To Hold Emergency Meeting After Ebola Spreads To Uganda
The World Health Organization said Wednesday that a key emergency committee would meet following confirmation that an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo had spread to neighbouring Uganda.
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After Ebola, World Still Unprepared for Global Pandemic, Says Charity Group
The global health system is unable to handle another mass epidemic like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said, urging wealthy nations to develop coordinated response plans and drugs to fight neglected diseases.
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Slow Growth, Greek Crisis, Ebola on Menu as IMF, World Bank Meet
A sluggish global economy, the Greek debt crisis and continuing fallout of the Ebola epidemic will take focus beginning today when top finance officials gather for the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings.
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Barack Obama to Meet Liberian President on Ebola Recovery
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Ebola-ravaged Liberia will visit the White House on February 27, as her recovering nation embarks on an ambitious goal of reducing infections to zero.
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Ebola Reveals Shortcomings of African Solidarity
As Africa's leaders meet in Ethiopia to discuss the Ebola crisis, expectations of firm action will be tempered by criticism over the continent's poor record in the early stages of the epidemic.
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War, Ebola, Elections Top Agenda for African Union Summit
Conflict in Africa, especially the violence of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents, and efforts to stem Ebola will top the agenda as African leaders gather for their annual summit this week.
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Experts Meet in Geneva to Review Ebola Vaccines: WHO
Experts will gather in Geneva this week to review progress on possible vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Britain's Queen 'Worried Ebola Could Eclipse Malaria'
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has voiced concerns that malaria risks being sidelined because of the focus on the Ebola virus, a medical professor said after meeting the monarch on Tuesday.
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World Health Organisation Elects Africa's Next Chief
As Ebola continues to burn its way through three West African countries, the World Health Organization on Wednesday elected its next Africa director, a doctor from Botswana who is a longtime veteran of the UN agency at a meeting in Benin.
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WHO Chief To Meet Congo President, As Group Warns Ebola Likely Spread Undetected For Months
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for more international support to stop the disease's spread before he travelled to Congo's Ituri province where the first cases were confirmed.
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WHO Chief Lands In Eastern Congo's Ituri Province, Epicenter Of Ebola, As Outbreak Outpaces Response
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to visit a treatment center and meet local authorities, health workers and affected families in Bunia.
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Ebola Alert: Surveillance, Health Screening Measures Intensified At Kochi Airport
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Health authorities have intensified surveillance and precautionary measures against the Ebola virus at Cochin International Airport, in Kerala's Kochi, following an emergency preparedness meeting jointly convened by Cochin In
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India Strengthens Ebola Screening, Centre Holds High-Level Review Meet After WHO Alert
India has intensified Ebola surveillance and preparedness measures after fresh concerns over Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa. The Health Ministry says no Ebola case has been detected in India, while states and UTs have been asked to strengthen sc
-
Global Health Alert: WHO Assembly Begins Amid Hantavirus And Ebola Outbreaks
World Health Organization member states gather for their annual meeting in Geneva Monday amid concern over deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks and uncertainty over...
-
5 Points On Marburg Virus And New Outbreak In African Country
The WHO held an emergency meeting after nine people died from the an outbreak of the Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea. It causes infection as deadly as Ebola, and the outbreak-hit province has been placed under quarantine.
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WHO To Hold Emergency Meeting After Ebola Spreads To Uganda
The World Health Organization said Wednesday that a key emergency committee would meet following confirmation that an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo had spread to neighbouring Uganda.
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After Ebola, World Still Unprepared for Global Pandemic, Says Charity Group
The global health system is unable to handle another mass epidemic like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said, urging wealthy nations to develop coordinated response plans and drugs to fight neglected diseases.
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Slow Growth, Greek Crisis, Ebola on Menu as IMF, World Bank Meet
A sluggish global economy, the Greek debt crisis and continuing fallout of the Ebola epidemic will take focus beginning today when top finance officials gather for the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings.
-
Barack Obama to Meet Liberian President on Ebola Recovery
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Ebola-ravaged Liberia will visit the White House on February 27, as her recovering nation embarks on an ambitious goal of reducing infections to zero.
-
Ebola Reveals Shortcomings of African Solidarity
As Africa's leaders meet in Ethiopia to discuss the Ebola crisis, expectations of firm action will be tempered by criticism over the continent's poor record in the early stages of the epidemic.
-
War, Ebola, Elections Top Agenda for African Union Summit
Conflict in Africa, especially the violence of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents, and efforts to stem Ebola will top the agenda as African leaders gather for their annual summit this week.
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Experts Meet in Geneva to Review Ebola Vaccines: WHO
Experts will gather in Geneva this week to review progress on possible vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Britain's Queen 'Worried Ebola Could Eclipse Malaria'
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has voiced concerns that malaria risks being sidelined because of the focus on the Ebola virus, a medical professor said after meeting the monarch on Tuesday.
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World Health Organisation Elects Africa's Next Chief
As Ebola continues to burn its way through three West African countries, the World Health Organization on Wednesday elected its next Africa director, a doctor from Botswana who is a longtime veteran of the UN agency at a meeting in Benin.
