The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the worst Ebola outbreak in history, and has implications for the world. Here is everything we know about the virus, and its spread, so far.
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2014 Ebola Outbreak: Full Coverage of the Viral Epidemic
The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the worst Ebola outbreak in history, and has implications for the world. Here is everything we know about the virus, and its spread, so far.
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. Ebola Q&A: Why Virus Is a Bigger Threat to Health Care Workers
Although Ebola is not a very contagious virus in general, it carriers a higher risk for health care workers. Here's what we know about Ebola's risk to health professionals.
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Did Deforestation Pave the Way for Ebola Outbreak?
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Quarantines: Why They Don't Work Well
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'Plainclothes Man' Near Ebola Patient at Risk?
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Microsoft Announces Free Azure Cloud Computing Resources For Ebola Research
Microsoft today announced that they are making Azure computing resoures free for Ebola research. According to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 2014 Ebola epidemic is now affecting multiple countries in West Africa. One imported case from Liberia and associated locally acquired cases in healthcare workers have been reported in [...]
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. CDC Updates Its Ebola Guidelines for Health Care Workers
To better protect health care workers from Ebola, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines about wearing personal protective equipment.
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. Ebola Airport Screening Prevents 3 Cases Per Month from Traveling
If the Ebola screening currently taking place at airports in West Africa were to stop, about three people with the disease would travel by plane to a new country each month.
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. Nigeria: How Ebola Was Contained in Africa's Largest City
Now that 42 days have passed without any new cases of Ebola in Nigeria, the country is officially Ebola-free, the World Health Organization declared today.
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. Why Silicon Valley must join the Ebola battle
Guest Post: How we handle the Ebola crisis is just a prelude to how we face a future in which humanity is so tightly connected that local epidemics break out frequently and spread globally within hours.
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