Fewer than 100 new confirmed cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone last week…
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Ebola Weekly Updates
Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of January 18, 2015]
As the infection rate continues to drop in all of the three remaining affected countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – UN officials are no longer describing the outbreak as a single outbreak, but rather a collection of “micro-outbreaks”…
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Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of January 11, 2015]
The World Health Organization’s January 14th Ebola Situation Report begins with several heartening statements…
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Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of January 4, 2015]
A public health nurse who volunteered for Ebola response efforts in Sierra Leone fell ill with Ebola in late December after returning home to Scotland.
[More] Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of December 28, 2014]
Sierra Leone continues to be the country under the most duress.
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Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of December 14, 2014]
On December 16 U.S. President Barack Obama signed an omnibus spending bill. The bill allocated $5.4 billion to fight Ebola in the United States and abroad, with $2.5 billion specifically appropriated to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of December 7, 2014]
The WHO declared last week that the Ebola Outbreak in Spain is officially over.
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Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of November 30, 2014]
Having reached 42 consecutive days since the country’s last suspected Ebola case tested negative two times, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was officially free of Ebola transmission on November 21.
[More] Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of November 9, 2014]
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ended Liberia’s three-month-long state of emergency on Thursday, November 13 but stressed that the fight against Ebola is not over.
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Ebola Outbreak Update [Week of November 2, 2014]
Despite encouraging news of declining infections last week, especially in Liberia, Sierra Leone is seeing accelerating infection rates.
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