By Tom Howell Jr. – The Washington Times The chief of the D.C. Department of Health said Wednesday that ignorance about the Ebola outbreak is causing people to stigmatize the city’s African population. Joxel Garcia said members of the public have posed odd questions and expressed outsized fears about transmission, especially to cab drivers. “When
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By Emily Caldwell COLUMBUS, Ohio – For many, global public health seems like an abstract and distant problem – until the Ebola virus is diagnosed among people in our midst. Though no one would call the Ebola pandemic a good thing, it has presented an opportunity for scientists to alert the public about the dire
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Martin Salia, a Sierra Leonean doctor sick with Ebola, is pictured in this handout photo taken February 2013 Dr Salia, seen here in 2013, had been working in Freetown in Sierra Leone A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospital announced. Martin Salia, who
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By Abel Ephrem ‹‹በጎ ፈቃደኞች የተባሉት በግዳጅ የተሰባሰቡ ናቸው››የጤና ባለሞያ በቅርቡ የኢትዮጵያ መንግስት 200 የሚደርሱ በጎ ፈቃደኞችን በኢቦላ ወደተጠቁት የምዕራብ አፍሪካ አገራት ለመላክ ዝግጅቱን ማጠናቀቁን ፋና መዘገቡ አይዘነጋም፡፡ የጤና ባለሞያዎቹ በተለያዩ የመንግስት ጤና ጣብያዎች መስራት ከጀመረ አንድ ዓመት ያልሞላቸው መሆናቸውን የጠቆመው ምንጭ በአዳማ ለአስር ቀናት ያህል ስልጠና ከወሰዱ በኋላ በግዳጅ መልክ ላይቤሪያ እንደሚሄዱ የተነገራቸው መሆኑን ገልጧል፡፡
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By Hara Ethiopia A disease that medical doctors believe is Ebola appears to be suspected in the Ethiopian capital. One west African origin diplomat has been admitted for flu like symptoms in Saint Yared General Hospital. Three more people have been also admitted to the black lion hospital, with a reported cases of bleeding and
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Bloomberg By Rene Vollgraaff Sub-Saharan African economies need to better prepare for the risks of the Ebola outbreak, wider budget shortfalls and security threats from militant groups, according to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. “Risks that require enhanced preparedness include rising fiscal deficits in a number of countries, economic fallouts from the activities
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Fox By Jessica Mulvihill What Is Ebola? Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal hemorrhagic disease that first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks. One outbreak was in Sudan and the other was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a village near the Ebola River — from which the disease got
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BBC More than 3,000 people have already died as a result of Ebola in West Africa The first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed in Dallas, Texas. Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital say the unidentified patient is being kept in isolation The patient is said to be
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BBC By James Gallagher The first patient was injected with the vaccine last week. Vaccinated monkeys have developed “long-term” immunity to the Ebola virus, raising a prospect of successful human trials, say scientists. The experiments by the US National Institutes of Health showed immunity could last at least 10 months. Human trials of the vaccine
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