All of these positives are now overshadowed by the bleak prediction of Ebola's ramifications in the region.”
Ebola Outbreak 2014
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A COLLECTION OF EBOLA-RELATED ARTICLES FOR GENERAL REFERENCE
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Robin Landis
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Two food trucks with provisions for thousands of families stuck went into quarantine areas as the country battles to control an Ebola epidemic that has so far claimed over 1,200 people in the region. As part of the increased international response, the World Food Programme is stepping up emergency food deliveries to the quarantined areas, which include severely affected regions such as Bomi and Foya in Liberia. Etienne Christopher Saint-Jean, the WFP national logistics officer, said: "The operation had been quite intense, and we intend to scale up when the need arises." 
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Kenya Airways is to stop flying to Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the nations worst affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Analysts say the suspension will cause substantial revenue losses to the airline and Kenya's wider economy is also being affected by the outbreak - despite the fact not a single case has been detected in the country. VIDEO
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Across West Africa, there's widespread suspicion about Ebola — even down to whether the disease actually exists. To help spread accurate information, radio stations are playing catchy songs with vital information about the disease.
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WASHINGTON — Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are accelerating human clinical trials for what scientists hope is a promising new vaccine to combat the deadly Ebola virus. Phase 1 of the clinical trials, which were previously not expected to begin until the end of September, will start early next month in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci said researchers now hope to finish Phase 1 by the end of November rather than January 2015, as originally planned.
Via Ed Rybicki
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The type of Ebola erupting in West Africa is closely related to one found 2,500 miles away — the distance between Boston and San Francisco. How did the virus spread so far without anyone noticing?
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Travellers from West African countries where Ebola has killed hundreds have devised ways of getting into Kenya through Busia and Malaba since they are barred from entering the country through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. In the past week, 122 people from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have transited to Kenya through the two border towns, according to officials...
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It has laid waste to the tribal chiefdoms of Sierra Leone, leaving hundreds dead, but the Ebola crisis began with just one healer’s claims to special powers.
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaaf has ordered a nighttime curfew in an attempt to curtail the spread of the Ebola virus. The move comes in addition to the earlier imposition of a state of emergency. In a radio address late on Tuesday, President Johnson Sirleaf announced a nighttime curfew that would begin Wednesday, as well as the quarantine of two neighborhoods. "Commencing Wednesday, August 20 there will be a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. (2100 to 0600 UTC)," Sirleaf said. "All entertainment centers are to be closed. All video centers are to be closed at 6 p.m.," she added. In addition, it was announced, the communities of West Point in Monrovia and Dolo Town in Margibi county were to be placed under full security watch, with no movement in or out....
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How did it get this far? This particular strain of Ebola -- called Ebola Zaire -- comes from Central Africa. How did it get to West Africa? Why did it start in Guinea, which has never seen the Ebola virus? And why is this happening now?
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USAID’s Ebola DART team is responsible for assessing emergency needs and managing a coordinated U.S. interagency response, and they are laying the groundwork for a possible scaling up of the response effort. The agency has so far committed 100,000 personal protective equipment suits — 30,000 of which have arrived. That’s in addition to gloves, buckets, body bags, infrared thermometers, and other supplies, which the team is airlifting in to supply public health workers in the three affected countries. “This will be a large logistics operation,” Callaghan said.
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...In addition, the Ebola outbreak also threatens the economy of Liberia, with investors pulling out of the country and the price of food and other essentials increasing. There is a tangible threat of the region being hit by a food crisis and the government is already asking donors to prepare food aid....
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Experimental drugs and airport screenings will do nothing to stop this plague. If Ebola hits Lagos, we're in real trouble Attention, World: You just don't get it.
Robin Landis's insight:
UPDATE: The suspected case of Ebola in South Africa that was mentioned in the article tested negative. http://mg.co.za/article/2014-08-18-sa-man-monitored-for-ebola-tests-negative
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is putting off thousands of tourists who had planned trips to Africa this year, especially Asians, including to destinations thousands of miles from the nearest infected community such as Kenya and South Africa.Ebola, a hemorrhagic disease which can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects, has claimed more than 1,200 lives this year in the three small West African states of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and also has a toehold in Nigeria.Although there are no known cases outside of this epicenter, many tourists are afraid to travel anywhere on the vast continent because of concerns the disease could spread, tour operators in Africa and Asia told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Several dozen Russian scientists will reach Guinea this week to set up a laboratory, deployed using KamAZ trucks at a campground.
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As fear of Ebola rises, Liberian security forces quarantine West Point slum and impose night-time curfew. Security forces blocked off a seaside slum in Liberia's capital on Wednesday, stepping up the government's fight to stop the spread of Ebola, unnerving residents and reportedly sparking a protest...
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The United Nations World Food Programme is scaling up its operations to provide food to around 1 million people living in restricted access areas in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In response to the continued spread of the virus, WFP is scaling up its operations through a regional emergency response that will provide food assistance to around 1.3 million people living in restricted access areas in the three affected countries that WFP serves. WFP has been and will continue to provide food to people in medical quarantines, people under treatment and their relatives, and to the most vulnerable people in the villages affected by the outbreak.
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The public health expert coordinating U.N. efforts to fight Ebola said on Tuesday that he’s heading to Washington and then to West Africa to determine the best ways the world body can support people, communities and governments affected by the deadly disease. David Nabarro told a news conference that he will have “intensive interactions” on Wednesday with the World Bank, experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others before flying to Dakar, Senegal on Wednesday night. Nabarro, who was appointed a week ago, said he will then travel to the four countries affected by the current Ebola outbreak — Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. He said there is a huge, unmet demand for health workers not only to care for Ebola patients but also to care for people with other conditions.
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The international community has made "almost zero" response to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, with western leaders more interested in protecting their own countries than helping contain the crisis that has now claimed more than 1,200 lives, a senior international aid worker said on Tuesday. Brice de la Vigne, the operations director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said politicians in industrialised countries urgently needed to take action, or risk the outbreak spreading much further. "Globally, the response of the international community is almost zero," he told the Guardian. "Leaders in the west are talking about their own safety and doing things like closing airlines – and not helping anyone else."...
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Irish doctor Gabriel Fitzpatrick describes what it is like working in Sierra Leone, at the centre of the Ebola epidemic.
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Some Air France flight crews are refusing to board planes bound for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria over fears of the Ebola outbreak, the airline said Tuesday. Via SustainOurEarth
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As some survivors come back to the world of the living, they feel a chill of wariness, or worse, from neighbors.
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A senior doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa's most populous country to five, health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said on Tuesday (Aug 19).
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The outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa is threatening tourism across the continent, as jittery travelers reconsider trips to places as far away as Kenya and South Africa.
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Spreading panic will not help efforts to curb the Ebola outbreak in Africa. ...What this outbreak needs right now is clear-headed, focused and well-resourced attention. Panic doesn't help. Panic drives out reason. The consequence of panic will only be further "otherisation" of the communities and countries being devastated by this disease...
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