Senegal has closed its border with Guinea because of the deadly Ebola outbreak, despite warnings that such measures are counter-productive. Senegal also banned flights and ships from Guinea, Liberia …
US Ebola patient Kent Brantly ‘thrilled to be alive’
One of the US aid workers who recovered from an Ebola infection is "thrilled to be alive" as he and another patient are discharged from hospital. via BBC News - US Ebola patient Kent Brantly …
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Ebola outbreak: Suspected case in County Donegal
Tests for the Ebola virus are being carried out on the body of a man in a County Donegal hospital, the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has said. via BBC News - Ebola outbreak: Suspected case …
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Death toll could double to over 80 in Hiroshima landslide, more rain falls
Heavy rain delayed a search on Friday for more than 50 people believed buried under a deadly landslide on the edge of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, as opposition politicians rounded on Prime …
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U.S. Ebola patient to be released
Dr. Kent Brantly, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa while helping fight its largest outbreak in recorded history, will be released from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital on …
Liberia police fire on protesters as West Africa’s Ebola toll hits 1,350
Police in the Liberian capital fired live rounds and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood, as the death toll from …
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Sierra Leone’s 365 Ebola deaths traced back to one healer
It has laid waste to the tribal chiefdoms of Sierra Leone, leaving hundreds dead, but the Ebola crisis began with just one healer’s claims to special powers. The outbreak need never have spread from …
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Landslides hit Japan’s Hiroshima, killing at least 27
At least 27 people, including several children, were killed in Japan on Wednesday, when landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into the outskirts of the western city of Hiroshima, and the …
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Liberia orders curfew and quarantine to halt Ebola outbreak
Liberia has imposed a night-time curfew and has quarantined an area of the capital Monrovia in a bid to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak. via BBC News - Ebola crisis: Liberia orders curfew and …
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Liberia confirms Ebola West Point patients missing
Seventeen suspected Ebola patients are "missing" in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked, the government says. The government had previously denied they were missing, saying all …
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