Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone Passes New Ebola Law Making It Illegal To Hide An Ebola Patient

Sierra Leone voted to pass a new amendment to its health act, imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an...

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Dr Kent Brantly Scheduled to be Released From Emory’s Atlanta Hospital

The American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly, who was receiving treatment at Emory's University Hospital after contracting...

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Ebola Outbreak In West Africa: Only 4 of Ghana’s 42 Entry Points Secured

It has emerged that as the Ebola epidemic spreads quickly across the sub-region, only four of Ghana’s 42 legitimate...

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Suspected Ebola Patient Dies; Care Givers at Risk

Health workers at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital are praying and hoping that a suspected Ebola patient who they...

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Sierra Leone Request to Play African Cup Qualifiers in Ghana Because of Ebola Outbreak

The national football team of Sierra Leone wants to use Ghana for their home games for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations...

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Ghana’s Inter Ministerial Committee on Ebola Meet Today To Review Strategies on Preventing The Entry of the Deadly Virus

The inter-ministerial Committee on Ebola is expected to meet today to review strategies on preventing the entry of the...

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President Obama: Too early to send Ebola drug to West Africa

US President Barack Obama said it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West...

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Ebola in Saudi Arabia. One Death Recorded

A Saudi man suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus after recently returning from Sierra Leone passed away at...

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Video: Monkey Meat and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia

West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola — a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to...

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Sierra Leone Is Looking for an Ebola-positive Patient on the Run

Officials in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, are appealing for help to help find a woman who left a hospital with the...

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Sierra Leone Hero Ebola Doctor Infected with the Ebola Virus

Dr Sheikh Umar Khan has contracted the Ebola Virus. The Sierra Leonean virologist who has become a Sierra Leonean...