CDC to Start Enhanced Ebola Screening at Five U.S. Airports

CDC Press Release The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs & Border Protection (CBP) this week will begin new layers of entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. New York’s JFK

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US Ebola patient Thomas Duncan dies

BBC Duncan The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the US has died, Texas hospital officials have said. Thomas Duncan, who caught the virus in his native Liberia, was being kept in isolation in a Dallas hospital and receiving experimental drugs. Earlier the US announced new security procedures at entry points to check

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Ebola outbreak: Bodies of victims ‘left in the streets’ as burial teams go on strike

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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Ebola outbreak: Bodies of victims ‘left in the streets’ as burial teams go on strike

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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World Bank, IMF Urge Sub-Saharan Africa to Focus on Ebola Risk

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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Potato found growing inside woman after being used as a contraceptive

Colombia Reports Medical staff in the central Colombian town of Honda said they were shocked to find a potato growing inside a woman’s vagina. The 22-year-old unidentified woman sought medical attention after experiencing abdominal pains, according to Colombia Reports. After medical staff discovered the potato, the woman explained her mother told her to insert it to

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Potato found growing inside woman after being used as a contraceptive

Colombia Reports Medical staff in the central Colombian town of Honda said they were shocked to find a potato growing inside a woman’s vagina. The 22-year-old unidentified woman sought medical attention after experiencing abdominal pains, according to Colombia Reports. After medical staff discovered the potato, the woman explained her mother told her to insert it to

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Aids origin ‘was 1920s Kinshasa’ from Chimpanzee

By James Gallagher Kinshasa, pictured in 1955, was at the centre of the pandemic, scientists say The origin of the Aids pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists say. An international team of scientists say a “perfect storm” of population

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13 Scientific Reasons To Drink Coffee

 KRIS GUNNARS, AUTHORITY NUTRITION   Coffee is actually very healthy. It is loaded with antioxidants and beneficial nutrients that can improve your health. The studies show that coffee drinkers have a much lower risk of several serious diseases. Here are the top 13 evidence-based health benefits of coffee, that have been confirmed in actual human

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What is Ebola? What you need to know about Ebola

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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