“As new cases drop in Liberia, experts call for a fresh strategy that would target flare-ups”
Ebola Outbreak 2014
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A COLLECTION OF EBOLA-RELATED ARTICLES FOR GENERAL REFERENCE
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World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim warned Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could trigger famine, and called for the creation of an international emergency fund for epidemics. 
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A Cuban doctor treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the disease and was being sent to Geneva for treatment, officials said, the first Cuban known to have contracted the potentially deadly hemorrhagic fever.
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The very nature of relief supply chains is to operate in dynamic and chaotic environments. But in the face of the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded, achieving the well-established humanitarian goal of delivering the right supplies in the right quantities to the right locations at the right time has proven to be a massive — and mostly unique — challenge, even for the most seasoned emergency responders.
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The world’s top football players, including Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona’s Neymar Jr., Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and Bayern Munich’s Philipp Lahm, are joining forces with global health experts to help raise global awareness in the fight against Ebola. Using the slogan “Together, we can beat Ebola” and the hashtag #wecanbeatebola, players share 11 simple health messages selected with the help of doctors and health experts from Africa, the World Bank Group and the World Health Organization, among the organizations tackling the outbreak in West Africa.
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Authorities in Sierra Leone have freed a journalist arrested 11 days ago for making supposedly disparaging comments about the country's effort to fight Ebola. Local rights groups and British parliament had criticized the detention of David Tam-Baryoh, who was arrested under emergency measures put in place to combat the worst Ebola outbreak on record. Via Firoze Manji
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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim speaks with journalists on the sidelines of the G20 Meeting in Brisbane, Australia.
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More than 400 health workers at one of Sierra Leone's few Ebola treatment centres have embarked on a strike over unpaid risk allowances the government is meant to provide, officials said, although some of them returned to work later in the day.
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The European Union is stepping up its fight against Ebola, sending more funds, medication and supplies to the three west African countries most affected by the epidemic.
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Senegal has lifted a ban on traffic by air and sea with Ebola-stricken Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, reversing a measure in place since August to halt the spread of the disease, Senegal's APS news agency reported on Friday. Senegal's land border with Guinea, which was the first country to record Ebola in the region this year, remains closed, APS said.
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Sillah, 14 years old, survived Ebola but lost his father and three siblings. Now he's alone with his mother and they're getting by with the help from their community in southern Sierra Leone.
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Markets have been closed to limit large gatherings and the virus has disrupted planting and harvesting. The Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,830 Liberians and collapsed the country’s health-care system, is also attacking Liberia’s food supply, bringing intermittent hunger to a wide swath of this country even as its 4.1 million people try to survive the epidemic. ...In a separate assessment released Monday, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) reported that “food insecurity” now affects all areas of the country. The U.S. Agency for International Development says Ebola-affected communities are at Stage 3 on its five-point scale, with 5 signifying famine and 1 indicating minimal problems obtaining food....
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The United Nations, which is working on an emergency footing to battle the outbreak of Ebola, is worried about the potential for further isolation of the hardest-hit nations in West Africa.
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The UN's senior official for the fight against Ebola in Guinea has been found dead a month after he was appointed to the post in the West African country. Marcel Rudasingwa of Rwanda passed away in the capital on Monday from natural causes. Mr Rudasingwa, who was born in 1955, had worked for the UN Children's Fund for almost 20 years before being appointed as the Ebola Crisis Manager for Guinea. "The Head of the UN Mission, Anthony Banbury, said that in just a short space of time, Mr. Rudasingwa played a pivotal role in the Organization’s and the international community’s response to the Ebola crisis in Guinea. Our thoughts are with Mr. Rudasingwa's family at this time."
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When a pregnant woman catches Ebola, the fetus and amniotic fluid are flooded with the virus. The ripple effects of these dangerous deliveries could be more catastrophic than Ebola itself... ...With so much blood and so much bodily fluid involved in deliveries, even doctors with access to protective gear are getting infected.
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The 160-strong Chinese deployment to the west African country worst hit by the virus came as the world's most powerful economies vowed to "extinguish" the epidemic, which has claimed more than 5,100 lives. The Chinese doctors, epidemiologists and nurses will staff a $41 million (33 million euro) Ebola treatment unit which will be up and running in 10 days, ambassador Zhang Yue said in a statement on Sunday.
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Martin Salia, who died this morning in Nebraska, initially received a test result that showed he was Ebola free. His family wonders what would have happened if he had received earlier treatment. Via Biodefense News
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Liberia has ended its state of emergency over Ebola in place since August. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also announced that night curfews would be reduced and weekly markets could be held across the country.
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With the nationwide closure of schools in Liberia and Sierra Leone due to the Ebola outbreak, and with no immediate prospect of them reopening, a growing number of students are receiving their lessons via radio.
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Kenyan Tourism Minister, Phyllis Kandie, speaks to Richard Quest at the World Travel Market in London.
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More than 5,000 people have died from the Ebola virus disease, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, even as it suggested the spread of the disease in two of the hardest-hit countries was moderating.... ...Sierra Leone continues to report “steep increases” in the disease, the WHO said.
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In much of West Africa, the annual harvest ends around October, and in the following months, countless young men hit the road to look for work elsewhere, such as on cocoa and coffee plantations in Ivory Coast or in fishing ports on the coast, according to people who know the region. That post-harvest migration is a prime example of the high mobility of the region's population. National borders are porous and don't mean a whole lot, and people cross them freely, by all accounts. And that fact worries some observers who are pondering the challenge of stopping the Ebola epidemic simmering in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. With a high level of travel between the three hard-hit countries and their neighbors, these observers reason, there's a very good chance that travelers or migrants will bring more Ebola cases into other countries, such as Senegal, Mali, and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), potentially triggering expansion of the epidemic.
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KEY POINTS UNMEER SRSG Anthony Banbury warned the UN General Assembly that the reappearance of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Mali illustrates the threat that the virus still poses to the region A team of FAO consultants in Guinea found that while the hunting and consuming of bush meat had decreased due to sensitization on EVD transmission, the practice persists in most places. A total of 14,248 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of EVD have been reported. There have been 5,180 reported deaths.
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Ebola patients in Liberia can now be treated in a new center set up in Monrovia with funding from German aid organizations. A German armed forces airlift will keep supplies flowing in. Via ReactNow
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