Calls to do so may seem logical, but such a step would actually worsen the epidemic in Africa, as well as raise the risk to the U.S.
Ebola Outbreak 2014
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A COLLECTION OF EBOLA-RELATED ARTICLES FOR GENERAL REFERENCE
Curated by
Robin Landis
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...The U.N.'s World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization say border and market closures, quarantines and movement restrictions, and widespread fear of Ebola have led to food scarcity, panic buying and price increases, especially in Sierra Leone and Liberia... 
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“Deforestation has destroyed much of the region’s habitat for fruit bats – and put these Ebola carriers into more contact with people”
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“Just when you thought you knew all the consequences of the Ebola pandemic, here’s another one: it could affect the supply of chocolate.”
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An American cameraman helping to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia for NBC News has tested positive for the virus.
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4 Reasons why Rwanda is prepared to handle the Ebola crisis better than her neighbors.
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“Barring all incoming flights from Ebola-hit countries in West Africa might seem like the best way to prevent an outbreak of the virus in the United States, but doing so would actually hurt efforts to curb the outbreak in the long run, Tom Frieden,...”
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“ Ebola is ravaging Liberia, sickening thousands.”
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With the Centers for Disease Control now forecasting up to 1.4 million new infections from the current Ebola outbreak, what could "big data" do to help us identify the earliest warnings of future outbreaks and track the movements of the current outbreak in realtime? It turns out that monitoring the spread of Ebola can teach us a lot about what we missed -- and how data mining, translation, and the non-Western world can help to provide better early warning tools. Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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New York — During a High Level Meeting on Ebola at the United Nations on September 25, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for a heightened response from the international community. "The world can and must stop Ebola – now," he said. One of the participants was Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who leads the African Union Commission, the secretariat of the 54-member organization. In a brief interview, she addressed the need for assistance and what the AU is doing to assist countries most seriously impacted by the outbreak.
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Pilot triage clinics are being funded to help tackle the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, UK officials say.
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“As first US case is diagnosed, Jim Yong Kim says the world has a moral and economic duty to respond before the disease spreads further”
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Air France is maintaining flights to Ebola-hit Guinea in a show of France's "solidarity", French President François Hollande said on Monday during a visit to Paris by Guinea's President Alpha Condé. Although the airline suspended services to neighbouring Sierra Leone, which is also suffering from the Ebola outbreak, it has continued flights to Conakry.
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Questions remain over why a made-in-Canada experimental Ebola vaccine is still sitting in a Winnipeg laboratory instead of being dispensed in West Africa, with a scientific journal suggesting an intellectual property dispute may be to blame. Via Virginia Gordon
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Peter Piot was a researcher at a lab in Antwerp when a pilot brought him a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had fallen mysteriously ill in Zaire
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“Addis Ababa: October 3, 2014 (FBC) - The governments of Sudan and Ethiopia held a joint coordination meeting in which they agreed to form a committee...”
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* Food shortages grow as farmers shun fields, markets close* Relief agencies scramble to confront humanitarian crisis* Impact on farming, trade, drags down economic growth* Fields lie idle, harvesting...
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The World Health Organisation warns that Ebola-crippled west African countries need to protect themselves against the risk of a Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in early 2015.
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“Nigerians are getting used to being checked for fever at airports and nightclubs.”
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“Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for someone with the virus, an official says.”
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“Despite promises of western aid, local health workers are short of everything from paracetamol to protective clothing Continue reading...”
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The conference aims to get countries and other international donors to pledge beds, medical staff and money to help end Ebola in Sierra Leone.
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EASTERN Province medical officer Kennedy Malama has castigated some hospitals in the province for not holding their routine clinical preparedness meetings on Ebola.
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Quickly understand the worst Ebola outbreak ever. Calm down. You don't have Ebola.
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Months after the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history began ravaging West African countries, a man who flew from Liberia to Dallas became the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States. Health officials stressed that they are confident they can control this situation and keep the virus from spreading in the U.S. "We're stopping it in its tracks in this country," Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, declared during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
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