A plane carrying a second American aid worker infected with Ebola from West Africa arrived in Maine to refuel on…
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West Africa Ebola deaths near 4,500, WHO says
A total of 4,493 people have died from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record by Oct. 12, statistics released…
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Mobile phone message of Ebola ‘cure’ offers false hope
A note being circulated by mobile phones in West Africa claims a plant can “cure” Ebola, BBC News reported. The…
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Ebola outbreak: Do hazmat suits protect workers, or just scare everyone?
For health care workers and researchers, wearing pressurized, full-body suits around Ebola patients may be counterproductive to treating the disease,…
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Stethoscopes tend to be more contaminated than the palms of physicians’ hands, new research shows. In a recent Swiss study,…
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Hundreds of babies possibly exposed to TB at Texas hospital
More than 700 newborns and 40 employees of a Texas hospital may have been exposed to a worker who had…
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WHO says drawing up six-nine month strategy to combat Ebola
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola…
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Factbox: How Ebola spreads and started
West Africa is struggling with the worst Ebola outbreak on record that has killed at least 4,950 people. Two nurses…
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From Ebola front line: Teaching how to stay safe
WASHINGTON – He’s traveled to the sites of worrisome outbreaks of SARS, bird flu, MERS. But the Ebola outbreak that’s…
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Number of people with HIV unchanged since 2012
The number of people living with HIV worldwide has remained virtually unchanged in the past two years and AIDS-related deaths…
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