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New study by ecologists suggest Liberia could be Ebola free by June

Jan 14, 2015

A new model developed by ecologists at the University of Georgia and Pennsylvania State University suggests that if the current level of vigilance is maintained and the trend towards better hospitalization cont...

Cuba deploys 300 more doctors to fight EVD in Africa

Cuba deploys 300 more doctors to fight EVD Ebola in Africa

Charles Omedo

Sep 27, 2014

Health

The Cuban government is sending almost 300 more doctors and nurses to contain the Ebola disease outbreak in West Africa; and this contingent will total 461 medical experts that the communist nation will be send...

President Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia begs Obama for help with Ebola

Charles Omedo

Sep 13, 2014

Health

In an emotion-laden voice, the president of Liberia, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, has pleaded with the Obama-led government in the United States to help her country fight the ravaging Ebola disease that has so far de...

Third American Ebola patient ready to return to Liberia again

Charles Omedo

Sep 12, 2014

Health

A third American doctor that contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia is ready to head back to the West African country after he’s totally cured of the disease. This revelation was made by his wife, Debra S...

Massachusetts physician contracts Ebola in Liberia

Christian Bloss

Sep 4, 2014

Health

Dr. Rick Sacra of Holden who was volunteering at a Liberia hospital is infected with Ebola. He becomes the third American aid worker to contract the virus. Sacra, 51, was scheduled to fly back to Liberia last w...

Ebola epidemic induces food shortage and hike in food prices in African Countries

Charles Omedo

Sep 2, 2014

Health

Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone – the three West African countries worse hit by the Ebola epidemic, face acute food shortage and hike in food prices due to the deadly disease. The shortage of farm hands and t...

Dr. Kent Brantly safely arrives in U.S. for Ebola treatment

Platonium

Aug 2, 2014

Health

Dr. Kent Brantly, who is one of the two U.S. aid workers that contracted the deadly Ebola virus while working in West Africa, landed in the U.S. on Saturday. He then was safely transported to Emory University H...

WHO announces Ebola death toll counts crossed 729 in West Africa

Ally Stackhouse

Jul 31, 2014

Health

Ebola has already taken more than 729 lives in three countries across West Africa. The WHO has already announced a fresh list of fatalities in the last few days. This is soon to become one of the deadliest outb...

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