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In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, an empty Ebola virus decontamination zone at the Hastings treatment clinic, as the Ebola virus shows signs of diminishing, in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, an empty Ebola virus decontamination zone at the Hastings treatment clinic, as the Ebola virus shows signs of diminishing, in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Image: AP Photo/ Michael Duff)/Associated Press
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WHO: Number of new Ebola cases drops to lowest level since June

Written by The Associated Press

Health officials are now focused on ending the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak rather than just slowing the deadly virus' spread, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan delivers a speech regarding the ebola virus which has caused the death of more than 2400 people so far in West Africa during a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 12, 2014.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan delivers a speech regarding the ebola virus which has caused the death of more than 2400 people so far in West Africa during a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 12, 2014.
Image: Fatih Erel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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World Health Organization mistakenly forwards email to BuzzFeed saying 'BuzzFeed is banned'

Written by Brian Ries

BuzzFeed, it seems, is on the World Health Organization's blacklist.

A woman adjusts her mask outside the closed-off Patsaouras Plaza at Union Station on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, in Los Angeles. The building was closed off as a precautionary measure after a man, who said he had returned from Nigeria three weeks ago, approached a security officer at Union Station and said he was feeling sick, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
A woman adjusts her mask outside the closed-off Patsaouras Plaza at Union Station on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, in Los Angeles. The building was closed off as a precautionary measure after a man, who said he had returned from Nigeria three weeks ago, approached a security officer at Union Station and said he was feeling sick, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Image: Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
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WHO: Number of Ebola-Linked Cases Passes 10,000, Nearly 5,000 Dead

Written by The Associated Press

More than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola, according to figures released Saturday by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread.

Hazardous material cleaners disinfectant their personal protective equipment after working in the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed.
Hazardous material cleaners disinfectant their personal protective equipment after working in the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed.
Image: LM Otero/Associated Press
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Should the Ebola Quarantine Be Longer Than 21 Days?

Written by National Journal

Two to 21 days. If a person is exposed to the Ebola virus, that's the timeframe in which the symptoms of the disease can manifest. The disease kills about half of those it infects. That's the reality for the friends of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first v...

A Muslim Hajj worker look at an Ebola campaign poster at the Hajj camp during a screening for pilgrims at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria Thursday, Sept, 18. 2014.
A Muslim Hajj worker look at an Ebola campaign poster at the Hajj camp during a screening for pilgrims at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria Thursday, Sept, 18. 2014.
Image: AP Photo/Sunday Alamba/Associated Press
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U.S. Predicts 1.4 Million Ebola Cases in Africa by January Without More Action

Written by The Associated Press

New estimates warn that the number of Ebola cases could soar dramatically unless efforts to curb the outbreak are significantly ramped up.

A child looks at a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, while holding his hand over his nose, in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 12, 2014.
A child looks at a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, while holding his hand over his nose, in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 12, 2014.
Image: Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press
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WHO: 'If We Are Going to War With Ebola, We Need the Resources to Fight'

Written by Andrew Freedman

“Today there is not one single bed available for the treatment of an ebola patient in the entire country in Liberia,” WHO director-general Margaret Chan said at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. “Our response is running short on nearly everything.”

Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization WHO, speaks to the media during a press conference about the WHO briefing on the Ebola roadmap, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 28 August 2014.
Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization WHO, speaks to the media during a press conference about the WHO briefing on the Ebola roadmap, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 28 August 2014.
Image: MARTIAL TREZZINI/EPA
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Ebola Outbreak 'Could Exceed 20,000 Cases,' World Health Organization Says

Written by The Associated Press

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the WHO said Thursday.

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