(Business Standard) -Ethiopia said Friday it will deploy about 210 health professionals to Ebola-affected countries to support the response against the epidemic in West Africa. In addition, the East African nation has also decided to provide financial support of $500,000 to the response in the highly affected countries, Xinhua reported. Speaking at a press conference
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(BBC)The Malian government has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the country. It said a two-year-old girl had tested positive for the haemorrhagic virus. Reports say she recently returned from the neighbouring Guinea. More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola – mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone – since March. Meanwhile, an
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The east African nation of Rwanda is now screening all visitors who have traveled to the United States within 22 days of entry for Ebola, whether or not they show symptoms of the deadly virus. The U.S. Embassy in Rwanda posted the following notice to its website on Tuesday: On October 19, the Rwandan Ministry
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Cuba’s former leader says offer not aimed at ending animosity with US but needed in the interests of “world peace”. (AL Jazeera) Fidel Castro, the 88-year-old former Cuban leader, has said his country is ready to work with the US in the battle against Ebola, saying that such co-operation would be in the interest of
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AFP The 619 doctors and health workers will be sent from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda ARUSHA, Tanzania: East African nations are sending over 600 health workers, including 41 doctors to west Africa to combat the spread of Ebola, the regional five-nation bloc said in a statement on Friday. The decision was made after
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AFP Photo by Berit Roald for Agence France-Presse. Wealthy countries were slow to tackle the Ebola epidemic as it began in Africa, former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said in tough criticism of the response to the crisis on Thursday. “I am bitterly disappointed by the response… I am disappointed in the international community
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Reuters / Thomas Peter Russian scientists are working on three potential Ebola vaccines which they expect to introduce as soon as in the next six months. One of the vaccines is “already ready for clinical trials,” Russia’s health minister Veronika Skvortsova has announced. “We have created three vaccines,” Skvortsova announced in an interview with Rossiya-1 TV. “One
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The Independent By JAMES RUSH According to reports, workers have complained that they have not been paid Volunteers in protective suit bury the body of a person who died from Ebola in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, some 30 kilometers southeast of Freetown The bodies of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone have been left in the streets
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The Independent By JAMES RUSH According to reports, workers have complained that they have not been paid Volunteers in protective suit bury the body of a person who died from Ebola in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, some 30 kilometers southeast of Freetown The bodies of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone have been left in the streets
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