“The United Nations has defined the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa as of “unprecedented extent” and a threat to the international peace and security.”
Ebola Outbreak 2014
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A COLLECTION OF EBOLA-RELATED ARTICLES FOR GENERAL REFERENCE
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The Chief of Staff, Prosper Douglas Bani, has led a government team to meet with the United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) on the establishment of their Mission and the setting up of a logistics centre in Accra. 
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Ebola is a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Learn more facts about Ebola.
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Stately and unassuming, Liberia’s national Ebola taskforce coordinator James Dorbor Jallah announced at a press conference in late August that the government’s initial $5m (£3m) contribution to contain the disease had been spent. As he fumbled with the numbers in his expenditures report, the blogosphere exploded with queries about how all that money could vanish so quickly. Now, the Liberian Senate is demanding full disclosure of the Ebola funds’ whereabouts. To his credit, however, Jallah was attempting something that donors have yet to do: answer to the people in whose name “the war on Ebola” is being fought in west Africa. As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability. Via KRII-KROTOASA RESEARCH-INTENSIVE INSTITUTE
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Dr. Margaret Chan, Executive Director of WHO, opens the Ebola session at 22:35 and President Obama speaks at 34:15.
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Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara said on Friday his country will lift the controversial suspension of flights to countries stricken by the Ebola virus to show solidarity with the nations affected by the lethal outbreak.
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“The death toll from the world's worst Ebola outbreak, in West Africa, passes 3,000, the World Health Organization says.”
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“The government of Ethiopia is providing training to Hotel Service providers on the deadly Ebola virus.”
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“Outbreak has crippled domestic production and measures to contain disease have increased country’s reliance on imports • Life under Ebola quarantine – in pictures (RT @JimFloydIntel: Ebola outbreak prompts food shortage fears in Liberia”
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Sierra Leone has ordered the quarantine 'with immediate effect,' in the largest lockdown in west Africa in the deadly Ebola outbreak
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South Africa’s Department of Health (DoH), which has created the Ebola Response Fund, has set a goal of raising R250-million to coordinate and manage relief assistance for the affected countries. - See more at: http://techmoran.com/south-africas-doh-seeks-raise-r250-million-ebola-response-fund/?__scoop_post=951ef730-4404-11e4-c295-90b11c3ead14&__scoop_topic=3417142#__scoop_post=951ef730-4404-11e4-c295-90b11c3ead14&__scoop_topic=3417142
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The Ebola health crisis threatens to become a political crisis that could unravel years of effort to stabilise West Africa. The hardest-hit countries now face widespread chaos and, potentially, collapse.
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When it comes to purchasing products on the Internet that claim to treat or cure Ebola, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has one word for consumers: Beware! This week the FDA sent warning letters to three companies the government agency says are selling products over the Internet that claim to treat, prevent or even cure the deadly disease. The letters were issued after an alert warning consumers about fraudulent Ebola products being hawked online went out last month.
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A new mobile Ebola testing lab in Freetown, Sierra Leone would help produced quick test results to help control the worst-ever outbreak of the virus.
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During the Global Health Security Agenda Summit held at the White House on Friday, President Obama encouraged the global community to see epidemics as security issues. He issued a challenge to innovators to create protective health gear that would be less hot.
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Sex workers at Nyamapanda Border Post have started charging "Ebola risk insurance" in a bid to use the deadly outbreak to shake down truck drivers from outside Zimbabwe for extra cash.
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Children whose families have been killed by outbreak of Ebola in West Africa have found themselves shunned through fear of the deadly disease.
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Six months after the Ebola outbreak emerged for the first time in an unprepared West Africa and eventually became the worst-ever outbreak, the gap between what is needed and what has been sent by other countries and private groups is huge and threatens to become insurmountable.
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Just months ago, Liberia was bouncing back from a troubled past marked by repressive dictatorship and civil war. With each of its democratic gains came a more vibrant civic life and an outpouring of urban freedoms.
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“'Ebola Is Real but Preventable' AllAfrica.com As students prepare to go back to school, the National Coordinator for Child Protection Alliance (CPA) has said to both parents and teachers that the highly contagious 'Ebola virus disease is real, but...”
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“Liberia's chief medical officer is on a 21-day Ebola quarantine after her assistant died from the illness, according to health officials. (Liberia's top medical officer is in Ebola quarantine.”
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“the World Bank Group today announced that it will nearly double its financing to $400 million to help the worst-affected countries address the emergency and build stronger health systems for the years ahead.”
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The new figures from the World Health Organization's (WHO) Ebola Response Team are sobering. If cases in the three worst affected countries continue to rise at the present rate, by the beginning of November more than 20,000 people in West Africa will have been infected. And despite earlier suggestions that this might be a less deadly strain of the Ebola virus, allowing half its victims to recover, the new figures show a much higher fatality rate, in the region of 70 percent.
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With health clinics closed and people afraid to come in for treatment, Liberia's national AIDS commission says they are now going door-to-door to get people to come take their antiretroviral medications. All eyes are on Ebola, but experts say there are other deadly diseases being overlooked in the crisis.
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