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Dr. Victor Willoughby, who contracted the disease on Saturday, was the 11th doctor in his country to die from the deadly disease. Via VERONICA LESTER 
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Votes are being counted in Liberia's senate election held on Saturday despite a deadly Ebola outbreak. Turnout in the poll - which had been planned for October - was low as many people decided to stay away. Those who came to polling stations had their temperature taken, were told to stand a metre (3ft) apart and wash their hands before and after voting.
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Ebola has affected Liberians from all walks of life. The race is on to curb the spread of the disease, but there is one group of people whose health is not always uppermost in people's minds: detainees.
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As the West African Ebola epidemic enters its second year small batches of experimental vaccines are on the cusp of reaching people in the affected countries. Nature tackles the questions that will determine whether vaccines play a role in ending the current epidemic — and can prevent future flare-ups. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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In Liberia's notorious West Point slum, the Masanga Mentor Ebola Initiative which the Telegraph is backing for its Christmas Charity Appeal, is helping those most affected by the outbreak.
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Response workers battling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will receive “hazard pay” for the first time in Sierra Leone using mobile money because “unless there is a certain element of incentives, or danger pay, it’s very difficult to attract and retain people,” the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today.
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The Ebola situation has improved in Lofa County and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to withdraw from the area. New actors have arrived to help and since 30 October there have been no more Ebola patients in the Ebola Management Centre (EMC) in Foya. The success of MSF's intervention in northern Liberia can be considered a model of response, benefitting from a comprehensive approach and constant community involvement.
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Scores of Ethiopian health workers arrived in Liberia on Tuesday to bolster the response to an Ebola outbreak that the government says it wants to stamp out before Christmas. The 87 doctors and nurses will join an African Union (AU) mission against the worst Ebola outbreak on record, which has killed more than 6,800 people in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced he will leave today for the countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak “to show my solidarity with those affected and urge even greater global action” to fight the epidemic, which two United Nations food agencies said could push the number of people facing food insecurity to more than one million by next spring.
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Sierra Leone is due to mount house-to-house searches in the capital Freetown to find hidden cases of Ebola, and restricts shop opening hours... In his statement, President Koroma said the searches aimed to "break the chain of transmission"...[and]..
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For all the medicine they provide at this center, physicians and staff from Doctors Without Borders spend as much time encouraging the patients to eat, drink, and keep fighting.... ...“In some ways I feel generic soft drinks are doing more for Ebola than anything else at the moment,” says Kirrily de Polnay, a physician at the Bo management center. When de Polnay and the other staff enter the containment tents where patients are housed, they attend to medical tasks first. Then, they coax patients to eat; the center’s kitchen dishes up soup, rice, and local comfort foods like corn or rice porridge called pap, and cassava root-based foo foo, to encourage patients...
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Telecom operators in Rwanda have joined the campaign to rid West Africa of Ebola through an African ...
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Public concern about the spread of Ebola in Liberia seems to be waning, even though about 10 new cases continue to be reported in the capital Monrovia every day.
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A front-line report from Sierra Leone examines efforts to change hearts and minds in West Africa’s villages.
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A man who fears he has Ebola waits for help to arrive near the Sierra Leone capital as his neighbors worry they will catch the virus. Officers overseeing suspected Ebola patients say that help comes slowly.
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The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has reached nearly 7,400, with just over 19,000 people infected across west Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Sierra Leone reported 400 new fatalities this week, bringing the death toll there to 2,500. As of 18 December, it had the highest number of people infected by the virus – 8,800 cases, of which 6,900 were confirmed, according to the country’s health ministry. Via ReactNow
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December 17, 2014 HIGHLIGHTSVisit our main West Africa Ebola Outbreak page to learn more about how we're responding to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, and what you can do to help.
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The US, UK and Canada are testing different kinds of vaccine in controlled clinical trials. Via Ed Rybicki
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...The outreach team is multi-disciplinary, made up of nurses, health promotion officers, water and sanitation experts, and of course sprayers. They take care of the entire community, both the living and the dead; transporting suspected Ebola cases to the treatment centre, disinfecting the homes of Ebola patients, providing information on how those left behind can protect themselves, and safely and respectfully removing the dead...
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The president of Sierra Leone will launch a massive campaign on Wednesday to curb the spread of Ebola in the western areas of the capital Freetown, which will aim to scare people into changing their behaviour.
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WFP food distributions across Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone are ongoing. In Waterloo, the Freetown’s hard-hit rural neighbourhood, food assistance is being provided to some 47,000 households. In communities with high Ebola-transmission rates, WFP food distributions are vital to stopping the infection spread.
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As part of its ongoing emergency response to Ebola in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has carried out the largest-ever distribution of anti-malarial medicine in Sierra Leone, in partnership with the country’s Ministry of Health. Teams distributed 1.5 million anti-malarial treatments to residents of the capital Freetown and five districts in the surrounding Western Area over four days, with the aim of protecting people from malaria during the disease’s peak season.
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ZMapp, an experimental antibiotic, pinpointed weak spots on the Ebola virus (EBOV)’s surface, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered. Two candidate monoclonal antibody (mAb) cocktails, MB-003 and ZMAb, had shown promising results against the EBOV. Based on their success, they had been formed into combination treatment called ZMapp, which will go into clinical trials in 2015, a TSRI statement mentioned. A newly published study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provided a 3-dimensional explanation of how the drug binds to vulnerable locations on the virus. - See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/articles/Combination-Treatment-Highlights-Ebolas-Weak-Spots-?__scoop_post=d8143f80-8524-11e4-e1bb-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=3417142#__scoop_post=d8143f80-8524-11e4-e1bb-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=3417142 ZMapp, an experimental antibiotic, pinpointed weak spots on the Ebola virus (EBOV)’s surface, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered.
Two candidate monoclonal antibody (mAb) cocktails, MB-003 and ZMAb, had shown promising results against the EBOV. Based on their success, they had been formed into combination treatment called ZMapp, which will go into clinical trials in 2015, a TSRI statement mentioned. A newly published study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provided a 3-dimensional explanation of how the drug binds to vulnerable locations on the virus. - See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/articles/Combination-Treatment-Highlights-Ebolas-Weak-Spots-?__scoop_post=d8143f80-8524-11e4-e1bb-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=3417142#__scoop_post=d8143f80-8524-11e4-e1bb-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=3417142 Via Krishan Maggon
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From the Cover: Structures of protective antibodies reveal sites of vulnerability on Ebola virusPNAS 2014 111 (48) 17182-17187;published ahead of print November 17, 2014,
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Liberia begins treating Ebola patients with serum therapy - a treatment made from the blood of recovered survivors. If a person has successfully fought off the infection, it means their body has learned how to combat the virus and they will have antibodies in their blood that can attack Ebola. Doctors can then take a sample of their blood and turn it into serum - by removing the red blood cells but keeping the important antibodies - which can be used to treat other patients. Ebola patients treated in the UK and the US have already received this type of treatment.
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