Ebola
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Letters: Not only is the US blockade of Cuba cruel and vindictive, it is also counter-productive
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Healthcare workers from across the UK will join volunteers who flew to Sierra Leone in November
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Tropical diseases specialists write that simple interventions such as use of rehydration salts could reduce death toll in west Africa
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Spokeswoman confirms arrival of healthcare worker at hospital which has treated four of 10 Ebola patients treated in US
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Who has risen up the political ranks? And why does North Korea owe Sweden so much money? We test how closely you've followed all the aspects of the DPRK in 2014
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Australian Greens senator Richard Di Natale gives a glimpse into the lives of those who dispose of the bodies of Ebola victims in Monrovia, Liberia
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Seumas Milne: From Ebola to earthquakes, Havana’s doctors have saved millions. Obama must lift this embargo
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Someone, somewhere, thought it would be funny to start a Twitter rumour that Michael Essien had Ebola. Unsurprisingly, the midfielder and his worried family were not amused
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Rachel Pugh: It started with his specialist accident team in Manchester. Now Tony Redmond is co-ordinating the NHS’s international response to the Ebola crisis
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35 hospitals nationwide now capable of treating Ebola, with more to be announced soon; there are currently zero cases of Ebola in the US
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A month after foreign visitors are barred because of Ebola fears, dprktoday.com tries to lure tourists with pictures of smiling children and short-range missiles
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Medical NGO MSF says response by foreign countries is ill-adapted to tackling the spread of Ebola in west Africa, warning the outbreak is far from over
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In his third update, Isaac Bayoh, a quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone, says trust has broken down between doctors and the people they are treating
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World Health Organisation says west African country’s capacity to combat epidemic is ‘strong and getting stronger’
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Chris van Tulleken: Band Aid 30’s patronising lyrics and its members’ tax affairs are just distractions. Geldof, and his critics, have done wonders for the way that aid is delivered
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WHO targets on isolating patients and medical burials missed as NGO warns virus has reduced country to ‘a nation of mere beggars’
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Death toll from virus outbreak nears 7,000 as World Health Organisation warns figures may be significant underestimation
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Funeral mass for surgeon Martin Salia, who died after contracting Ebola in his native Sierra Leone, to be held at family’s parish in Washington suburbs
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Isaac Bayoh, a quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone, gives his second update on the devastating toll the Ebola outbreak has taken on local communities
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Device can diagnose infection six times faster than methods currently used in west Africa
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The two are being tested for the disease in Newcastle after arriving in the UK from Africa, Public Health England says
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Medical team to work for private company in British-built facility and will be subject to 21 days in quarantine upon their return
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Letters: The Ebola outbreak is the greatest humanitarian threat Sierra Leone country has faced since its devastating civil war
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The private sector has long played a role in delivering health care, but how could it collaborate with public bodies? Join us 4th Dec, 1-3pm GMT, to discuss
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Open letter calls on international development secretary to increase response to outbreak to avoid ‘catastrophic loss of life’
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Healthcare workers, burial teams and others at high risk will be vaccinated in early 2015 if all results are positive
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Dog belonging to nurse who contracted Ebola was euthanised over infection fears
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A quarantine and awareness worker in rural Sierra Leone describes, in his own words, the devastating toll the Ebola outbreak has taken on local communities
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US troops returning from their Ebola mission in west Africa must spend 21 days in seclusion but life at their Virginia transit camp is not so tough
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There are many ways to keep donations rolling in other than encouraging the public to delete the single and download it again, says Kirsty Marrins
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Health workers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, say they have not been paid their hazard allowance for seven weeks
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We meet some of the citizen journalists who have been reporting on the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the epidemic
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In the hardest hit counties, the role of community leaders is key in preventing the marginalisation of survivors of the virus, writes Harold Aidoo
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What do the latest studies into sexual orientation reveal? Plus, can we win the fight against Ebola in West Africa, and what threat does the virus really pose to people in Europe and the US?
Topics
- Africa
- Health
- Sierra Leone
- Liberia
- Guinea
- Medical research
- World Health Organisation
- Infectious diseases
- North Korea (Travel)
- Australian politics
- Bob Geldof
- Kim Jong-un
- Aid
- Justine Greening
- NHS
- North Korea (World news)
- Band Aid 30
- Cuba
- Malaria and infectious diseases - global development professionals network
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