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Abundance of Politics: Nurse Slams Christie over Quarantine

Abundance of Politics: Nurse Slams Christie over Quarantine

| November 2, 2014 Comment

Abundance of Politics: Nurse Slams Christie over Quarantine – State-imposed quarantines for health workers who return from helping Ebola patients are driven by “an abundance of politics,” defiant nurse Kaci Hickox told NBC News’ Meet The Press on Sunday. Hickox had a public spat with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last week after enduring a weekend […]

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Scientists Try to Predict Number of US Ebola Cases

Scientists Try to Predict Number of US Ebola Cases

| November 1, 2014 Comment

Scientists try to predict number of US Ebola cases – Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year’s end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing […]

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Ebola: WHO Announces Slowing Rate of New Cases

Ebola: WHO Announces Slowing Rate of New Cases

| October 30, 2014 Comment

Ebola: WHO announces slowing rate of new cases – Liberia may be experiencing a slowdown in the rate of new cases of the deadly Ebola virus according to the World Health Organization. “We are seeing a slowing rate of new cases, very definitely,” WHO Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward announced. The African country has reportedly […]

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Australia Bans Visas for Travelers from West Africa over Ebola Fears

Australia Bans Visas for Travelers from West Africa over Ebola Fears

| October 28, 2014 Comment

Australia bans visas for travelers from West Africa over Ebola fears – Australia’s Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday, Australia won’t allow anyone traveling from the three West African countries hit hardest by Ebola — Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — to enter. According to BBC Australia, the ban, which begins immediately, began after […]

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Nurse Who Had Ebola Being Released from Hospital

Nurse Who Had Ebola Being Released from Hospital

| October 28, 2014 Comment

Nurse who had Ebola being released from hospital – Amber Vinson, a nurse who fueled Ebola fears by flying to Cleveland after being infected by her dying patient in Dallas, is now virus-free, and was celebrated Tuesday by her caregivers as courageous and passionate before getting out of the hospital. While world leaders appeal for more […]

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WHO Says Ebola drugs on Way, Virus Reaches Mali and New York

WHO Says Ebola drugs on Way, Virus Reaches Mali and New York

| October 25, 2014 Comment

WHO Says Ebola drugs on Way, Virus Reaches Mali and New York – As the row grows about whether or not the Ebola outbreak could have been contained earlier, and whether or not pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession have been dragging their heels on tropical medicines in general, there’s news drugs could soon be […]

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The Ebola-Free Nurse Got a Big Ol’ Hug from Barack Obama

The Ebola-Free Nurse Got a Big Ol’ Hug from Barack Obama

| October 24, 2014 Comment

The Ebola-Free Nurse Got a Big Ol’ Hug from Barack Obama – President Barack Obama gave the nurse recently declared Ebola-free a big ol’ presidential hug on Friday, hours after she was released from isolation at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. Obama was “was not at all concerned” about his health and simply […]

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Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Pledges $100 Million in Fight against Ebola

Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Pledges $100 Million in Fight against Ebola

| October 24, 2014 Comment

Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Pledges $100 Million in Fight against Ebola – Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen is ramping up his commitment in the fight against Ebola. The billionaire philanthropist announced Thursday that he is pledging to donate “at least” 100 million dollars towards medical supplies, healthcare training and safe evacuation of humanitarian aid workers in […]

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Europe’s First Ebola contamination: Spanish Nurse Is Infected

Europe’s First Ebola contamination: Spanish Nurse Is Infected

| October 6, 2014 Comment

Europe’s First Ebola contamination: Spanish Nurse Is Infected – In what is being described as the first case of Ebola contamination in Europe, a Spanish nurse has tested positive. The woman, a nursing auxiliary, worked at the hospital in Madrid where two Ebola patients – both missionaries repatriated from Africa – died of the virus […]

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Would a Travel Ban Help Stop the Spread of Ebola?

Would a Travel Ban Help Stop the Spread of Ebola?

| October 6, 2014 Comment

Would a Travel Ban Help Stop the Spread of Ebola? After a passenger on a flight to New Jersey began vomiting, health officials rushed to meet the plane amid fears the man had Ebola. If you’ve ever been on an airplane, this might look familiar – an air sickness bag meant for motion sickness. But the […]

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3rd US Ebola Patient Released from Hospital

3rd US Ebola Patient Released from Hospital

| September 25, 2014 Comment

3rd US Ebola Patient Released from Hospital – The third American aid worker who contracted Ebola in Africa has been released from a Nebraska hospital. Dr. Rick Sacra said he has been released from the Nebraska Medical Center at Thursday’s news conference. The 51-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, began improving shortly after he arrived in Omaha […]

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Sierra Leone to Shut Down for 3 Days to Slow Ebola

Sierra Leone to Shut Down for 3 Days to Slow Ebola

| September 18, 2014 Comment

Sierra Leone to Shut Down for 3 Days to Slow Ebola – Shoppers crowded streets and markets in Sierra Leone’s capital on Thursday stocking up for a three-day shutdown that authorities will hope will slow the spread of the Ebola outbreak that is accelerating across West Africa. According to figures released by the World Health […]

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