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Thursday, 30 October 2014
Obama campaigns in Maine, avoids spat over Ebola
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In a final-week burst of campaigning, President Barack Obama sought to mobilize Democratic voters Thursday in the race for governor in Maine while keeping his distance from the state's bubbling controversy over its Ebola policies and the nurse who has defied them.
Obama was...
Read moreU.S. quarantines 'chilling' Ebola fight in West Africa
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Mandatory quarantines ordered by some U.S. states on doctors and nurses returning from West Africa's Ebola outbreak are creating a "chilling effect" on Doctors Without Borders operations there, the humanitarian group said on Thursday.
In response to questions from Reuters, the group...
Read moreSunday, 26 October 2014
The Ebola.com Web Domain Just Sold for $200,000
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The owners of the website Ebola.com have scored a big payday with the outbreak of the epidemic, selling the domain for more than $200,000 in cash and stock.
The deal highlights the rewards and risk of industry trading and speculating in domain names that see high interest after news...
Read moreNurse criticizes Ebola quarantine, raising concern
The nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa criticized the way her case has been handled, raising concerns from humanitarian and human rights groups over unclear policies for the newly launched quarantine...
Read moreFriday, 24 October 2014
Girl dies of Ebola in Mali's first case
A two-year-old girl died of Ebola in Mali on Friday, in the first case of the disease in the west African nation, a source in the prime minister's office told AFP.
"Unfortunately she died between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm," said the source, adding that the girl's death had been confirmed...
Read moreNewly released Dallas nurse meets with Obama
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A nurse who caught Ebola while caring for the patient diagnosed in Dallas was released from a hospital Friday, free of the virus, and met with President Barack Obama at the White House.
Nurse Nina Pham said she felt "fortunate and blessed to be standing here today," as she...
Read moreAs Ebola hits, New Yorkers maintain wary calm
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News of New York's first case of Ebola was met with worry and even anger on Friday, but for this city of eight million residents, seasoned by everything from terror attacks to superstorms, there was little sign of panic.
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, who treated Ebola patients in West Africa,...
Read moreTuesday, 21 October 2014
Ebola vaccine trials in W. Africa in Januarymarie
The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa's hot zone — a bigger rollout than envisioned just a few...
Read moreMonday, 20 October 2014
In Chicago, a warm homecoming for unpopular Obama
(AP) — They say you can never truly go home again, but for Barack Obama, perhaps the old adage doesn't apply.
Across the country, far more Americans say they disapprove of the president than approve. Democratic candidates in tough races are practically begging Obama to stay away...
Read moreSunday, 19 October 2014
Friends, family of Ebola patient reach milestone
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(AP) — As her boyfriend Thomas Eric Duncan lay dying of Ebola in a Dallas hospital bed, Louise Troh battled loneliness and fear that she too had contracted the disease while confined to a stranger's home under armed guard.
Troh's confinement was ending Sunday night, along with several...
Read moreTest shows Spain nursing assistant clear of Ebola
(AP) — A Spanish nursing assistant appears to have recovered from the Ebola virus, authorities said Sunday, nearly two weeks after she became the first person infected outside West Africa in the current outbreak.
An initial test shows that Teresa Romero, 44, is now clear of all traces...
Read moreSaturday, 18 October 2014
Obama urges Americans not to give in to Ebola hysteriaOB
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(Reuters) - With three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the United States but dozens of people being monitored in case they contract the disease, President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday not to give in to "hysteria" about the spread of the virus.
Obama also made plain he...
Read moreFriday, 17 October 2014
African players in Europe feel Ebola backlash
(Reuters) - African footballers based at European clubs, especially those travelling back to the continent from international duty, began on Friday to feel the backlash from fears over the Ebola virus outbreak.
A Sierra Leone player has been asked to stay away from his Greek...
Read moreObama names Ebola 'czar' as precautions expand
(AP) — President Barack Obama turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation's Ebola response on Friday as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a cruise ship at sea and multiple airline flights.
Facing renewed criticism...
Read moreThursday, 16 October 2014
CDC under fire on Ebola
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(Reuters) - Congressional lawmakers criticized the government's response to Ebola in the United States on Thursday as some called, at a congressional hearing probing efforts to contain the virus, for a ban on travel from epidemic-stricken West Africa.
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Read moreWednesday, 15 October 2014
2nd worker in isolation with 90 minutes
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(AP) — Officials say a second health care worker who's tested positive for Ebola was in isolation at a Dallas hospital within 90 minutes of the worker finding she had an elevated temperature.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said at a news conference Wednesday that the health...
Read moreTuesday, 14 October 2014
Obama: World not doing enough to fight Ebola
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(AP) — President Barack Obama says "the world is not doing enough" to fight Ebola.
Obama suggested to reporters Tuesday that he plans to reach out to foreign leaders to pressure them to do more. He spoke at the end of a meeting with U.S. and allied military leaders primarily focused...
Read moreMonday, 13 October 2014
U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls says CDC chief
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(Reuters) - The case of a Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a dying Liberian patient shows that the United States needs to rethink how it handles highly infectious diseases as an outbreak of the deadly virus spreads beyond West Africa, a U.S. health official said...
Read moreSick passengers removed from flight at Boston's Logan Airport
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(Reuters) - Emergency crews in protective gear removed five passengers with flu-like symptoms from an airplane at Boston's Logan Airport on Monday, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority said.
The Emirates flight 237 was from Dubai, and none of the ill passengers had recently...
Read moreSaturday, 11 October 2014
Stepped-up Ebola screening starting at NYC airport
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(AP) — A stepped-up screening program that checks the temperature of travelers arriving from West Africa is starting at New York's Kennedy International Airport, part of an ongoing effort to stop the spread of Ebola, which has so far killed more than 4,000 people.
The effort...
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