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3 Years After Ebola Outbreak Declared In Guinea, Survivors Still Suffer
Three years after the world's worst recorded Ebola outbreak was first declared in Guinea, hundreds of survivors who suffer from physical and mental health problems are struggling to access care, a medical charity said on Friday.
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Liberia Declared Ebola-Free, Signalling End To West African Epidemic
Liberia was declared free of the Ebola virus by global health experts on Thursday, a milestone that signalled an end to an epidemic in West Africa that has killed more than 11,300 people.
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WHO To Declare Ebola Outbreak Over With Liberia In The Clear
The two-year Ebola epidemic which laid waste to communities across west Africa and killed more than 11,000 people is due to be declared over Friday with Liberia expecting the all-clear.
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Ebola-Free Sierra Leone Bets On Cocoa To Spark Recovery
In July 2014, Adrian Simpson was on a night out in Sierra Leone's third city of Kenema to celebrate his biggest deal yet: a contract to supply a new business partner with cocoa beans from his company's plantation.
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New Liberia Ebola Case 'Genetically Similar' to First Outbreak: WHO
Tests on the first Ebola case in Liberia after a three month span when the West African country was declared Ebola-free are genetically similar to a 2014 outbreak, the UN health agency said Friday.
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Ebola-Stricken Nations Need $700 Million to Rebuild Healthcare
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone need a further $696 million in donor funding to rebuild their battered health services over the next two years in the wake of the deadly Ebola epidemic, senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Monday.
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Twitter Shared News of Ebola Outbreak Before Health Officials
Tweets regarding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year reached more than 60 million people in the three days before the official outbreak announcements, a new study has found.
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'Ebola Will Return', Warns Veteran Congolese Scientist
Amid a decline in a West African outbreak that has taken more than 11,000 lives, Jean-Jacques Muyembe warns that Ebola will strike again in the future and that the deadly virus poses "a threat to the whole world".
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West Africa Battles Mystery of 'Post-Ebola Syndrome'
As the Ebola epidemic retreats across west Africa, international health authorities are turning their attention to the little understood long-term effects of the often-deadly virus on the survivors.
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Guinea Prosecutor Demands Death Penalty Over Ebola Murders
A prosecutor called Monday for the death penalty for 15 people accused of the murders of a nine-member Ebola education team in southern Guinea, judicial sources said.
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Sierra Leone Vice President Places Himself in Ebola Quarantine
Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana said on Saturday that he had placed himself in a 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola amid a worrying recent surge in new infections in the West African nation.
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Liberia Lifts Ebola Curfew, Re-Opens Borders
Liberia said Friday it was lifting nationwide curfews and re-opening borders shut last year at the height of the Ebola crisis, after the retreat of an epidemic that has killed thousands.
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World Health Organization Approves 15-Minute Ebola Test by Corgenix
The World Health Organization has approved the first rapid test for Ebola in a potential breakthrough for ending an epidemic that has killed almost 10,000 people in West Africa, it said today.
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Schools Reopen as Liberia Turns Page on Ebola Epidemic
Children began returning to school in Liberia on Monday after lessons were delayed for months by the deadly Ebola outbreak, as the country began to turn the page on the crisis.
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United Nations Downplays US Pullout of Ebola Mission
The US plan to pull troops out of West Africa will not leave a hole in the battle against Ebola, UN coordinator David Nabarro said Wednesday, but much work remains to get to zero cases.
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3 Years After Ebola Outbreak Declared In Guinea, Survivors Still Suffer
Three years after the world's worst recorded Ebola outbreak was first declared in Guinea, hundreds of survivors who suffer from physical and mental health problems are struggling to access care, a medical charity said on Friday.
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Liberia Declared Ebola-Free, Signalling End To West African Epidemic
Liberia was declared free of the Ebola virus by global health experts on Thursday, a milestone that signalled an end to an epidemic in West Africa that has killed more than 11,300 people.
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WHO To Declare Ebola Outbreak Over With Liberia In The Clear
The two-year Ebola epidemic which laid waste to communities across west Africa and killed more than 11,000 people is due to be declared over Friday with Liberia expecting the all-clear.
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Ebola-Free Sierra Leone Bets On Cocoa To Spark Recovery
In July 2014, Adrian Simpson was on a night out in Sierra Leone's third city of Kenema to celebrate his biggest deal yet: a contract to supply a new business partner with cocoa beans from his company's plantation.
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New Liberia Ebola Case 'Genetically Similar' to First Outbreak: WHO
Tests on the first Ebola case in Liberia after a three month span when the West African country was declared Ebola-free are genetically similar to a 2014 outbreak, the UN health agency said Friday.
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Ebola-Stricken Nations Need $700 Million to Rebuild Healthcare
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone need a further $696 million in donor funding to rebuild their battered health services over the next two years in the wake of the deadly Ebola epidemic, senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Monday.
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Twitter Shared News of Ebola Outbreak Before Health Officials
Tweets regarding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year reached more than 60 million people in the three days before the official outbreak announcements, a new study has found.
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'Ebola Will Return', Warns Veteran Congolese Scientist
Amid a decline in a West African outbreak that has taken more than 11,000 lives, Jean-Jacques Muyembe warns that Ebola will strike again in the future and that the deadly virus poses "a threat to the whole world".
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West Africa Battles Mystery of 'Post-Ebola Syndrome'
As the Ebola epidemic retreats across west Africa, international health authorities are turning their attention to the little understood long-term effects of the often-deadly virus on the survivors.
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Guinea Prosecutor Demands Death Penalty Over Ebola Murders
A prosecutor called Monday for the death penalty for 15 people accused of the murders of a nine-member Ebola education team in southern Guinea, judicial sources said.
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Sierra Leone Vice President Places Himself in Ebola Quarantine
Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana said on Saturday that he had placed himself in a 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola amid a worrying recent surge in new infections in the West African nation.
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Liberia Lifts Ebola Curfew, Re-Opens Borders
Liberia said Friday it was lifting nationwide curfews and re-opening borders shut last year at the height of the Ebola crisis, after the retreat of an epidemic that has killed thousands.
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World Health Organization Approves 15-Minute Ebola Test by Corgenix
The World Health Organization has approved the first rapid test for Ebola in a potential breakthrough for ending an epidemic that has killed almost 10,000 people in West Africa, it said today.
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Schools Reopen as Liberia Turns Page on Ebola Epidemic
Children began returning to school in Liberia on Monday after lessons were delayed for months by the deadly Ebola outbreak, as the country began to turn the page on the crisis.
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United Nations Downplays US Pullout of Ebola Mission
The US plan to pull troops out of West Africa will not leave a hole in the battle against Ebola, UN coordinator David Nabarro said Wednesday, but much work remains to get to zero cases.
