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• Ebola outbreak an avoidable tragedy, say UK ministers

  12 Sep 2014: Commons committee report says hesitancy and lack of coordination over crisis suggests that emergency plans failed

• Scientist who identified Ebola virus calls for 'quasi-military intervention'

  11 Sep 2014: London-based microbiologist Prof Peter Piot urges creation of UN peacekeeping force to fight 'catastrophe' in west Africa

• Reports of Ebola panic in Queensland before man cleared of contracting virus

  11 Sep 2014: State’s chief health officer stresses tiny risk as social media suggests people are cancelling trips and removing children from schools

• Hundreds of children across US sickened by severe respiratory virus

  8 Sep 2014: Suspected virus, enterovirus 68, typically causes illness lasting a week and most children recover with no lasting problems

• The Guardian view on why the Ebola epidemic is spreading

  7 Sep 2014: Editorial: The cause of the World Health Organisation’s failure to respond effectively to the Ebola outbreak: savage cuts that gravely reduced its capacity to act

• Thankless, dangerous – the task of the Ebola burial boys in Sierra Leone

  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

• UK government urged to allow NHS staff to help Africa's fight against Ebola

  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

• Ebola experts look to antibodies in survivors' blood as potential cure

  4 Sep 2014: With no proven treatment for the deadly outbreak in west Africa, WHO believes blood from survivors may be the best option

• Ebola: $600m needed to fight outbreak as pace of infection accelerates

  4 Sep 2014: Guinea says virus has spread to new part of the country as WHO confirms there are 3,500 confirmed African cases

• Second American doctor diagnosed with Ebola while working in Liberia

  2 Sep 2014: Male doctor was treating obstetrics patients at Monrovia hospital and was not in Ebola isolation unit, aid group says

• Ebola outbreak: call to send in military to west Africa to help curb epidemic

  2 Sep 2014:

  Head of Médecins sans Frontières says the world is 'losing the battle' as cases and deaths continue to surge

• Ebola: Liberian nurses strike over lack of protective equipment

  2 Sep 2014: Nurses at Monrovia's John F Kennedy hospital say they will not return to work until they get protective suits and better pay

• Japanese models catch Dengue fever after visiting source of outbreak

  2 Sep 2014: Health ministry confirms 34 people infected, including models Saaya and Eri Aoki, after visiting Yoyogi park in Tokyo

• Louisiana residents warned of brain-eating organism in water supply

  28 Aug 2014: Water warning culprit is Naegleria fowleri, a type of warm-water-loving microorganism, which can work its way into the brain
  

• CDC staffer who worked with Ebola victim monitored for symptoms

  28 Aug 2014: The staffer had ‘low-risk’ contact with someone who later tested positive for the virus in Sierra Leone, officials said

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