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Following the roadmap structure, country reports fall into three categories: those with widespread and intense transmission (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone); and those with an initial case or cases, or with localized transmission (Nigeria, Senegal). 
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Border closures, flight bans and mass quarantines are creating a sense of siege in the West African countries affected by Ebola, officials at an emergency African Union meeting said Monday, as Senegal agreed to allow humanitarian aid pass through its closed borders. Via SustainOurEarth
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Volunteers in Sierra Leone are to visit every home in the country of 6 million to track down people with Ebola and remove dead bodies. Steven Ngaoja, the head of the country's Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, said more than 20,000 volunteers would go door-to-door as part of a three-day curfew.
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Washington — The U.S. military over the weekend formally began to support the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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The distribution is taking place even as health workers continue to assist thousands of people stranded at centers like these.
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Fish farmers in Turkana are incurring massive losses after they lost their biggest market. The Democratic Republic of Congo provided the main external market for fish from Lake Turkana but outbreak of Ebola has seen this market closed down as authorities in the central African republic seek to control the spread of the disease. So far, Ebola has claimed 31 people in northwestern region of DRC, some 800 kilometres from the capital Kinshasa.
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The widening epidemic of Ebola in West Africa looks worse with each passing day. The outbreaks in the hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — have outstripped the ability of humanitarian groups and fragile government health systems to treat the sick and slow the spread....
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UNICEF has procured and facilitated the delivery of 48 metric tons of assorted drugs and other medical supplies worth over $ 825,000 with funds from the World Bank for the treatment of people who have contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone.
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A dozen Guineans await deportation at a Senegalese frontier police post, stopped in their tracks by the foot soldiers of an informal battalion of villagers at the forefront of a fight to keep Ebola out. These new vigilante "border guards" are becoming an increasingly common sight since a Guinean student brought the deadly epidemic raging across west Africa into Senegal just before the border closed on August 21.
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During the past weeks, a WHO team of emergency experts worked together with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and members of her government to assess the Ebola situation in Liberia.... The investigation in Liberia yields 3 important conclusions that need to shape the Ebola response in high-transmission countries. FIRST, conventional Ebola control interventions are not having an adequate impact in Liberia, though they appear to be working elsewhere in areas of limited transmission, most notably in Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. SECOND, far greater community engagement is the cornerstone of a more effective response. Where communities take charge, especially in rural areas, and put in place their own solutions and protective measures, Ebola transmission has slowed considerably. THIRD, key development partners who are supporting the response in Liberia and elsewhere need to prepare to scale up their current efforts by three- to four-fold.
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British military and humanitarian experts are to set up a treatment centre for ebola victims in Sierra Leone. The 62-bed facility will be built and run by military engineers and medical staff. The centre is expected to be operational within eight weeks... Via cbrneworld
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The ministry of education in Guinea has announced that schools and universities will remain closed indefinitely due to the Ebola epidemic.
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The experiments by the US National Institutes of Health showed immunity could last at least 10 months. Human trials of the vaccine started this week in the US and will extend to the UK and Africa.... ...These will take place in the US, the University of Oxford in the UK as well as in Mali and Gambia. People will be given just the initial jab, not a follow-up booster, in the trials. The WHO said safety data would be ready by November 2014 and, if the vaccine proved safe, it would be used in West Africa immediately. Healthcare workers and other frontline staff would be prioritised for vaccination. The number of doses currently available is between 400 - if a lot of vaccine is needed for immunity - and 4,000 if smaller amounts are sufficient. As with all experimental therapies, the WHO has warned hopes of a vaccine must not detract from the proven methods of infection control which have defeated all previous outbreaks... Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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On Sunday President Barack Obama raised expectations that the U.S. military will help fight the deadly Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa. But on Monday the Pentagon said it is merely filling a request for one field-deployable, 25-bed hospital -- a drop in the bucket toward stemming the epidemic, according to experts.
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Ebola's animal reservoir, fruit bats, could spread the disease through the dense forest that spans 22 countries, the study predicts. According to the Oxford prediction, these countries are at risk of animal-to-human transmission of Ebola by virtue of their geography: Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Angola, Togo, United Republic of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar and Malawi.
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Kenya will donate $1 million (Kshs 87 million) to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia to help in the fight against Ebola, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said.
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Less than one-third of Liberia's cases have even been confirmed by a lab, due in part to the sheer volume of cases in the Ebola-ravaged country. The death toll in the worst Ebola outbreak in history has climbed to at least 2,296 in West Africa, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. The new figures are current through Saturday and showed a staggering spike of nearly 200 new deaths recorded in one day, according to WHO data.
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Studies show that infectious disease often affects one gender more than another -- but that knowledge isn't being put into practice. ...Looking at who dies in an outbreak "shows you who has power and who doesn't," says Columbia University epidemiology professor Wafaa El-Sadr. "In a way, it holds a mirror to society. And it shows societies how they treat each other."...
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The African Union is to send medical support teams to the West African countries affected by Ebola for a six-month mission.
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The government has installed five walk-through thermal scanners to scan international arrivals at the country’s five international airports to check the spread of the deadly Ebola disease.
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Dr. Robert Nasi of the Center for International Forestry Research (www.cifor.org) talks about the importance of bushmeat in Central Africa, and the role of bushmeat in the spread of the Ebola virus.
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KAGERA Regional Commissioner, Mr Fabian Massawe, has said that precautionary measures at all entry points has been beefed up to ensure that no foreigner with signs of Ebola enters the country. Mr Massawe told the 'Daily News' in an interview that a team of experts had been dispatched to all entry points to monitor incoming people, adding that 24-hour surveillance was being conducted at all entry points. The entry points include Rusumo and Kabanga in Ngara District; Kaisho and Murongo in Karagwe District, and Kyaka and Mutukula in Misenyi District. Kagera Region shares borders with three neighbouring countries of Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
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Sierra Leone's information minister, Alpha Kanu, defends a four-day nationwide lockdown, in an attempt to contain the outbreak of Ebola. From 18 to 21 September people across the west African nation will not be allowed to leave their homes. Via Biodefense News
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Foreign Ministers from across the African Union have met in Ethiopia to discuss a common strategy to the outbreak of Ebola across the continent.
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