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People who have lost members of their household to the virus are often confined to their homes for weeks, making it difficult to collect food and other essentials. Have a look at some really powerful images that tell the story of how WFP is working to improve the situation in Liberia. Pictures from Rein Skullerud/WFP 
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Officials sweeping the homes of Sierra Leone's residents during a three-day lockdown found nearly 100 corpses along with more than 50 people who are infected with the deadly Ebola virus -- cases that were previously unknown to those trying to fight the outbreak, according to the agency leading the country's Ebola response.
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China has been supporting the efforts in fighting against Ebola by providing financial and material support as well as sending medical teams to the most affected West African countries.
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La Sierra Leone revit après trois jours de confinement pour ralentir la propagation du virus Ebola. Les six millions d'habitants ont été assignés à domicile depuis vendredi.
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The outbreaks of Ebola in Senegal and Nigeria have been “pretty much contained,” the World Health Organization said Monday. There have been no new confirmed cases of Ebola in Senegal since the first case was reported Aug. 29, and the last case of Ebola reported in Nigeria was Sept. 8, the WHO’s regional office for Africa said in a statement.
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The rapid increase of Ebola and MERS point toward the need to be vigilant, to anticipate, and to prepare for the next outbreak. While we don’t know what or when, we do know one thing: there will be another disease outbreak, posing a threat to both health and economy.
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Sierra Leone wrapped up its 72-hour shutdown on Sunday, with authorities reporting that the action aimed at containing the Ebola epidemic had uncovered up to 70 dead bodies in and around the capital.
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Aid organization Direct Relief had 100 tons of gloves, masks, medicines and gowns stockpiled in a California warehouse. Doctors fighting Ebola were calling from West Africa desperate for supplies. Getting it there was the challenge. With airlines halting flights and borders closing to stop the disease from spreading, the nonprofit took matters into its own hands, chartering a Boeing 747 that left New York yesterday for Sierra Leone and Liberia. It’ll figure out how to pay the $500,000 bill later.
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The third and last day of lockdown is under way in Sierra Leone. Thousands of health workers are going door to door to educate people about Ebola and hand out soap. The lockdown's also been put in place so new victims can be identified, and it looks like it's yielding results.
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“West Africa is facing the worst Ebola outbreak on record, according to the World Health Organization. More than 2,600 people have died from the virus since March and the numbers continue to grow. (very important information on ebola!”
Robin Landis's insight:
Besides the organizations listed in the article, here is another way to help -- they are trying to raise US$20,000 (as of 20 September they have about $14,000).
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Yet another set of ominous projections about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was released Tuesday, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling. In the worst-case scenario, Liberia and Sierra Leone could have 21,000 cases of Ebola by Sept. 30 and 1.4 million cases by Jan. 20 if the disease keeps following its current trajectory, without effective methods to contain it. These figures take into account the fact that many cases go undetected, and estimate that there are actually 2.5 times as many as reported. The report does not include figures for Guinea because case counts there have gone up and down in ways that cannot be reliably modeled.
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...As in West Africa, SADC region country borders are porous, breachable and daily see, in some cases, leakages of illegal immigrants stealing across land boundaries on foot or across river boundaries by canoe or simply by fording the rivers in search of jobs or, precious minerals or while peddling drugs or foreign currencies. It is more of these illegal immigrants than those who use designated entry points who pose the greatest threat to the transmission of Ebola from countries now under fire to those still relatively safe from the killer disease....
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So why then is Canada's national lab an Ebola research powerhouse? Why is a facility on the edge of the Prairies, near North America's longitudinal centre, the site from whence some of the most promising Ebola research emanates? What research? Well, there's ZMapp, the most promising of the current experimental treatments. There's also an Ebola vaccine that may be useful both to prevent infection and stop it in its tracks, if given shortly after exposure. And a mobile diagnostic lab that has changed the way outbreak testing is done. These are enormous contributions to the scientific efforts to prevent or contain Ebola. And the fact that they come from Winnipeg seems to come down to a few good men.
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Spain has repatriated Catholic priest Manuel Garcia Viejo from Sierra Leone after he tested positive for the Ebola virus.
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Sierra Leone recorded 130 new cases of the Ebola virus during a three-day lockdown and it is waiting for test results on a further 39 suspected cases, Stephen Gaojia, head of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, said on Monday.
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As the Ebola caseload rises to over 5,350, aid agencies and governments in countries not yet affected by the deadly virus are gearing up for its potential spread across new borders by pre-positioning supplies, training health workers, identifying isolation centres, and disseminating prevention campaign messages, among other activities.
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Blog by Francis Kennedy, World Food Programme
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Sierra Leone is in its third day of lockdown and health workers are continuing to educate people on Ebola and isolate those infected.
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The Independent With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems Washington Post MONROVIA, Liberia — While the terrifying spread of Ebola has captured the world's attention, it also has produced a lesser-known...
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The World Health Organization has released another situation update regarding the Ebola outbreak which comes sooner than expected showing a sharp increase in the number of cases. The total number of West African cases has increased to 5335 with 2662 deaths reported. However in a positive turn the rate of infection being reported by Guinea shows a downward trend. The data presented has been derived from information gathered by the Health Ministries of the affected countries up to the 14th of September 2014.
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“The hospital gatekeeper. The contact tracer. The burial leader. Learn what it's like inside the Ebola outbreak from people in West Africa.”
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