All posts tagged "ebola"

  • This image provided by Time Magazine, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, announces the Ebola fighters as its Person of The Year for 2014. The title, according to the magazine, goes to an individual or group who has had the biggest impact on the news over the course of the previous year. The issue carries five covers, and here, shows Dr. Jerry Brown, the Liberian surgeon who turned his hospital's chapel into the country's first Ebola treatment center. (AP Photo/Time Magazine)
    Ebola fighters named Time Person of the Year

    NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors, nurses and others fighting Ebola have been named Time’s 2014 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Wednesday. The runners-up included Ferguson, Missouri, protesters; Russian President Vladimir Putin; Kurdish Regional Government President...

    • Posted December 10, 2014
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    Part of Korean Ebola team to return home on Friday

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Part of a South Korean advance team of government officials will return home on Friday after wrapping up their on-site surveys in Britain and Sierra Leone to prepare for South Korea’s future dispatch of...

    • Posted November 20, 2014
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  • In this 2014 photo provided by the Samaritan's Purse aid organization, Dr. Kent Brantly, left, treats an Ebola patient at the Samaritan's Purse Ebola Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia. On Saturday, July 26, 2014, the North Carolina-based aid organization said Brantly tested positive for the disease and was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia. (AP Photo/Samaritan's Purse)
    A look at the worst-ever Ebola epidemic by numbers

    LONDON (AP) — As the biggest-ever outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, here are a few key numbers to get a handle on the epidemic: 13,042 and 4,818: According to an update this week from...

    • Posted November 7, 2014
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    S. Korea to send gov’t officials to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will send government officials to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, joining global efforts to defeat the fatal virus, the defense ministry said Thursday. The ministry said it will send an advance team of 11...

    • Posted November 6, 2014
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  • In this 2014 photo provided by the Samaritan's Purse aid organization, Dr. Kent Brantly, left, treats an Ebola patient at the Samaritan's Purse Ebola Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia. On Saturday, July 26, 2014, the North Carolina-based aid organization said Brantly tested positive for the disease and was being treated at a hospital in Monrovia. (AP Photo/Samaritan's Purse)
    40 apply to be on Ebola team in Korea

    By Jung Min-ho About 40 doctors, nurses and medical staff have so far applied for the 10 civilian posts on a team to be sent to help fight the Ebola epidemic in Western Africa. According to the...

    • Posted October 29, 2014
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  • The Ebola virus
    New York boy with fever tests negative for Ebola

    NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say a 5-year-old New York City boy who recently traveled to West Africa and had a fever does not have Ebola. The boy returned from Guinea with his family Saturday and...

    • Posted October 27, 2014
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  • Paul Allen (AP)
    Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pledges $100 million to fight Ebola

    SEATTLE (AP) — Billionaire Paul Allen says he’ll contribute at least $100 million to the fight against Ebola. The Microsoft co-founder said Thursday that among the initiatives he’s supporting is the development of two medevac containment units...

    • Posted October 24, 2014
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