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 Tulip Mazumdar Global health reporter Ebola healthcare workers are trained on ways to treat infected patients at the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 12 November 2014 The rate of transmission of Ebola remains intense, the WHO says Clinical trials to try to find an effective treatment for Ebola patients are to start
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Ebola virus symptoms, signs and treatment Ebola Must Know Facts: http://youtu.be/MXOEKXRP_Ok
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Ebola virus symptoms, signs and treatment Ebola Must Know Facts: http://youtu.be/MXOEKXRP_Ok
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Texas to Ethiopia There’s something that’s been bugging me, and I really don’t know if I can take it that much longer. For starters…let’s talk about the earth. The earth is round. There are oceans and continents. Each of the continents is named. Each continent has different landmarks, countries, bodies of water, etc …except for
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Texas to Ethiopia There’s something that’s been bugging me, and I really don’t know if I can take it that much longer. For starters…let’s talk about the earth. The earth is round. There are oceans and continents. Each of the continents is named. Each continent has different landmarks, countries, bodies of water, etc …except for
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Press conference RT- Two African-American schoolchildren who recently returned to the United States from overseas were reportedly taken to the hospital after other students physically assaultethem in New York City and called them “Ebola.” The two brothers from Senegal, aged 11 and 13, suffered severe injuries and were “brutally beaten” by classmates Oct. 24, according
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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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