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11 Sep 2014:
Most people living in the capital of Sierra Leone have yet to witness a single case of Ebola – but they are unable to escape its effect on their lives. Jonah Lipton reports from Freetown
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10 Sep 2014:
Funds will be used to purchase medical supplies and to develop vaccines, therapies and better diagnostic tools
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9 Sep 2014:
William Pooley, the British nurse who survived Ebola and was recently evacuated from Sierra Leone by the RAF, talks to the Guardian about the moment he told his parents he had caught the deadly disease
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9 Sep 2014:
British nurse who survived the deadly virus tells the Guardian that world leaders have to do more to combat the epidemic
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8 Sep 2014: Emory University Hospital says patient, possibly a doctor who had been working in Sierra Leone, will arrive Tuesday in the US
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8 Sep 2014:
Children orphaned by the deadly virus hope to find new guardians to look after them, despite heavy stigmatisation and endemic poverty
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8 Sep 2014: Poverty, stigma and fear of the fatal condition are hampering efforts to find new homes for children with other relatives. Monica Mark reports
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7 Sep 2014:
Human trials underway aiming to prevent another outbreak of the virus which has swept through west Africa
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7 Sep 2014:
Sierra Leone's information minister, Alpha Kanu, defends a four-day nationwide lockdown, in an attempt to contain the outbreak of Ebola
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6 Sep 2014:
Plan to bar people from leaving their homes on 18-21 September could drive infected people underground, say aid agencies
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4 Sep 2014:
Workers, paid $100 a month, toil to bury the bodies in order to stop the virus spreading – but they pay a heavy price
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4 Sep 2014:
Most cost-effective way 'to control our health is control health of those around us', say tropical disease experts in the BMJ
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4 Sep 2014:
World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan calls for global response and says stopping epidemic will cost $600m
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4 Sep 2014: Guinea says virus has spread to new part of the country as WHO confirms there are 3,500 confirmed African cases
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3 Sep 2014:
British Ebola survivor William Pooley, who was discharged from London's Royal Free hospital on Wednesday, says he was lucky to receive 'world class care'
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