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High risk Ebola could reach France and UK by end-October, scientists calculate

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by

Dallas Ebola patient fighting for life, another headed to Nebraska

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital and appeared to be

Ebola death toll rises to 3,439: WHO

YoopyaOct 5, 2014September 7, 20230

GENEVA (Reuters) – The world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed 3,439 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. There had

Rains complicate delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa

YoopyaSep 30, 2014July 29, 20230

By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centres

Liberia’s top doctor in quarantine after assistant dies of Ebola

YoopyaSep 28, 2014July 15, 20230

MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberia’s chief medical officer, who is also a deputy health minister, has put herself in quarantine as a precaution against Ebola after

Obama says “significant gap” in global effort to fight Ebola

YoopyaSep 26, 2014July 15, 20230

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that there was still a significant gap between where we are

Collateral death toll expected to soar in Africa’s Ebola crisis

YoopyaSep 26, 2014July 15, 20230

LONDON, Sept 26 – By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent (Reuters) – Deaths from infectious diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are likely to

Ebola spread stabilising in Guinea as toll nears 3,000 -WHO

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

By Tom Miles and Umaru Fofana GENEVA/FREETOWN (Reuters) – The spread of Ebola seems to have stabilised in Guinea, one of three West African states

Ebola toll nears 3,000 as medics face bed shortage, resistance

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

GENEVA (Reuters) – At least 2,917 people have died of Ebola out of 6,263 cases in the five West African countries affected by the disease,

Sierra Leone To Cordon Off 3 Areas To Stop Ebola

YoopyaSep 25, 2014July 15, 20230

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s government says a nationwide lockdown revealed that an Ebola outbreak is worse than thought and ordered three more