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WHO will fail its target of isolating 70% of Ebola patients by December 1 in West Africa

Nov 30, 2014

It is two months since the WHO started an ambitious plan to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus across the West Africa. The plan was to isolate 70% of the Ebola sick by December 1, 2014. Going by the indi...

GlaxoSmithKline reports success for Phase I trial of Ebola vaccine

Charles Omedo

Nov 27, 2014

Health

In association with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Okairos, GlaxoSmithKline has developed an Ebola vaccine candidate that has proved ...

David Cameron urges international community to take action on Ebola

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 17, 2014

World

David Cameron has said to the international community that they should "look to their responsibilities", to help tackle the Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa. The Britain Prime Minister insisted that...

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...

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...

Ebola virus: Can West African Nations stop deadliest ever outbreak from spreading?

Ally Stackhouse

Jul 4, 2014

Health

African ministers and health experts are in Ghana to hammer out a strategy to tackle the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola epidemic in western Africa. The WHO has already warned that drastic action will be require...

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