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...You can see how that could quickly get out of hand, and in fact, that is what the researchers predict. Here is their stop-you-in-your-tracks assessment: In a worst-case hypothetical scenario, should the outbreak continue with recent trends, the case burden could gain an additional 77,181 to 277,124 cases by the end of 2014. That is a jaw-dropping number.... 
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“Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has fired 10 senior officials who defied an order to return to the country and help in the fight against Ebola.The officials, including assistant minister...”
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“The Ebola outbreak in Liberia demands global help, says an aid worker (MT .@shanellehall: #Ebola: ‘In decades of humanitarian work, I’ve never seen such suffering’ @MSF http://t.co/fz1f20BdOH)...”
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“The head of the World Health Organization says more and better-trained medical workers are needed in West Africa to stop the growing outbreak of Ebola.Confirmed cases of Ebola in Western Afric...”
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“FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has requested funds from the World Health Organization to evacuate a doctor sick with the deadly Ebola d (Sierra Leone asks WHO for funds to evacuate doctor sick with Ebola:”
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The World Health Organization said that the number of Ebola cases in the country was 62, up from 31 a week earlier, and that more than half the afflicted patients had died.
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PIH is leading an effort to combat the Ebola outbreak, working alongside two outstanding grassroots organizations—Last Mile Health in Liberia and Wellbody Alliance in Sierra Leone.
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At least 35 people are believed to have died of Ebola in Central Africa, where 31 new cases have been reported since last week, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The outbreak in a remote northwestern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is separate from the one in West Africa, which has spread to five countries and is the deadliest on record. A total of 62 suspected and confirmed Ebola cases have been identified in four villages in Congo’s Jeera county since last month, the WHO said. They include nine health workers, seven of whom have died.
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In Monrovia, the blue steel gates guarding JFK Medical Center's Ebola ward separate two worlds, each hopeless.... ...I don’t think the world is getting the message. The magnitude of the response needed for a deadly outbreak like this in a staggeringly poor country demands both dollars and people... ...But go beyond humanitarianism: Epidemics destabilize governments, and many governments in West Africa have a very short history of stability. U.S. aid would improve global security. And consider the issue of “health security.” Microbes don’t respect borders. Now that Ebola is spreading in Nigeria, a global travel hub, cases are sure to appear outside the continent. While one Ebola case in the United States is unlikely to spark an outbreak, things could change if the virus becomes more easily transmittable. We already know it’s mutating.
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Based on the latest information available, growth could decline by at least 3-3½ percent in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and by about 1½ percent in Guinea. The larger estimated growth impact in Liberia and Sierra Leone is attributed to the fact that, in both countries, industrial mining production is being affected, while this isn’t the case in Guinea so far.
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As the Ebola death toll mounts in Liberia, burial teams are having to contend with physical risk and trauma as they take charge of safely burying the dead, often in the face of local anger.
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West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has started affecting mining operations, and companies feeling the pinch are pushing back. They’re pressuring governments and calling in ambassadors to demand international help to battle the crisis. A few are evacuating staffers — international workers only — but others said they wanted to stick it out. Some are laying aside competitive differences to work together to help medical charities as the epidemic spreads out of control. The numbers of people infected and killed by the virus have doubled in less than a month, the World Health Organization says.... This week, the CEOs of 11 companies operating in the region sent an open letter to world governments asking for more help right away...
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Kenya is not planning to lift the ban on entry of nationals from West African countries worst hit by the Ebola epidemic. This comes even after the African Union leaders made a decision to have the ban on some countries lifted. An emergency meeting of the AU's executive council on Tuesday to address the Ebola crisis, ruled that the ban on cross-border movement of people among member states should be lifted despite the disease raging in West Africa. The meeting was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in which Kenyan officials participated.
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“President Obama will announce the appointment of a high-level coordinator to manage the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak when he visits Atlanta on Tuesday...
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Country, which has a shortage of healthcare workers, asked for Dr Olivet Buck to be treated abroad but was turned down.
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“Some long distance truck drivers say the high volume of traffic in the country, estimated at more than 300 trucks a day, is generating thousands of dollars for Zimbabwe.”
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“Staff at major district hospital in Sierra Leone say they have not been paid for two weeks despite huge risk involved. (Ebola hospital workers walk out over pay: Staff at major district hospital in Sierra Leone say they have not b...”
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“As the death toll from the virus surged past 2,400 people, Cuba announced plans to send send 63 doctors and more than 100 nurses to Sierra Leone.”
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Countries that have never had a direct animal-to-human infection, but are at risk, are Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Togo, the team reported. Countries where cases of zoonotic transmission have been reported in the past were Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, South Sudan and Uganda.
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Nigerian health authorities said on Thursday they were holding for Ebola testing a South African national in transit to her country.
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The effort to develop therapeutics and a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) requires a complex understanding of the microorganism and its relationship within the host, especially the immune response. Adding to the challenge, EVD can be caused by any one of five known species within the genus Ebolavirus (EBOV), in the Filovirus family.
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Monrovia, the Liberian capital, is facing a widespread Ebola epidemic, and as the number of infected grows faster than hospital capacity, some patients wait outside near death.
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The United Nations will continue to stand by Liberia and its neighbours currently battling an “unprecedented” Ebola outbreak, the Organization’s peacekeeping chief pledged today in Monrovia, spotlighting his mission to assess how the UN can further support the country.... ...Emphasizing that a peacekeeping mission is not a public health operation “this is not what we are trained for” – he said at the same time, it is true that UNMIL is in Liberia to support the country as it has worked to solve the root causes of a very long crisis.
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The U.S. is planning a “surge” of federal workers into West African countries hit by Ebola, and has hired the air-ambulance company that evacuated two infected U.S. citizens in July to support them. About 1,400 U.S. government employees are in the region now, and more are on the way, the State Department said in a contract document released yesterday. As workers for global aid groups have fled, “the vacuum is increasingly being filled” by U.S. aid providers, the department said.
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Liberians have been sounding the alarm for weeks. Why has real action on Ebola been so slow?
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