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Doctor Hesitates, Then Returns to Ebola Front Line

Doctor Hesitates, Then Returns to Ebola Front Line

| November 18, 2014 Comment

Doctor hesitates, then returns to Ebola front line – When volunteer doctor Juli Switala returned last month to Sierra Leone to treat Ebola victims after taking a break, she said she was shocked to see the obituaries and photographs of colleagues who had died of the disease in her absence, pinned to a board in […]

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Unprecedented Ebola Drug Trials Set for West Africa

Unprecedented Ebola Drug Trials Set for West Africa

| November 13, 2014 Comment

Unprecedented Ebola Drug Trials Set for West Africa – Doctors Without Borders announced Thursday instead of waiting for a confirmed Ebola cure, the organization plans to conduct three drug trials. Doctors Without Borders isn’t sitting around waiting for a confirmed Ebola cure. While pharmaceutical companies continue to look for the drug that’ll stop the epidemic, […]

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Nurse Held in Isolation Over Ebola Fears Will Be Discharged

Nurse Held in Isolation Over Ebola Fears Will Be Discharged

| October 27, 2014 Comment

Nurse Held in Isolation Over Ebola Fears Will Be Discharged – That was Norman Siegel, a civil rights attorney, representing nurse Kaci Hickox, the nurse held in isolation in New Jersey over the weekend for the Ebola virus. On Monday, officials from the New Jersey Department of Health said in a statement that Hickox, who […]

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Fauci: Quarantine Can Have Unintended Consequences

Fauci: Quarantine Can Have Unintended Consequences

| October 26, 2014 Comment

Fauci: Quarantine can have unintended consequences – A top federal health official said Sunday, mandatory 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa, like those put in place by three states, can have the unintended consequence of discouraging them from volunteering. New York, New Jersey, and Illinois are the states that have now imposed mandatory […]

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What We Now Know about New York’s First Ebola Case

What We Now Know about New York’s First Ebola Case

| October 25, 2014 Comment

What We Now Know about New York’s First Ebola Case – New York City reported its first case of the deadly Ebola virus on Thursday, when a health care worker who volunteered in Guinea fell ill upon returning home in the US. Dr. Craig Spencer, 32, is now in isolation at Bellevue Hospital. Spencer had […]

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New York City Says Hospital Testing Healthcare Worker for Ebola

New York City Says Hospital Testing Healthcare Worker for Ebola

| October 24, 2014 Comment

New York City Says Hospital Testing Healthcare Worker for Ebola – A New York City hospital is running Ebola tests on a healthcare worker, Dr. Craig Spencer, with Doctors Without Borders who returned to the United States from West Africa with a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, the city’s health department said on Thursday. Preliminary test […]

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Europe Fears Ebola Spread out of Africa

| July 31, 2014 Comment

Fears that the West African Ebola outbreak could spread to Europe grew on Wednesday, with the EU allocating extra spending and a leading medical charity warning the epidemic was out of control. Doctors Without Borders warned the crisis gripping Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone would only get worse and could not rule out it spreading […]

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Ebola Outbreak Totally Out of Control

| June 21, 2014 Comment

Ebola Outbreak Totally Out of Control – A senior official for Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is “totally out of control” and that the medical group is stretched to the limit in its capacity to respond. Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the group in Brussels, said Friday that […]

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By the Numbers: Ebola Outbreak In West Africa

By the Numbers: Ebola Outbreak In West Africa

| June 19, 2014 Comment

By the Numbers: Ebola Outbreak In West Africa – The deadly Ebola virus, for which there is no cure or vaccine, has killed more than 250 people in west Africa since March in one of the worst outbreaks in years, with Doctors Without Borders calling it an “unprecedented” epidemic. The current Ebola outbreak started in […]

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