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Ebola virus

At Redemption Hospital in Liberia, health workers screen patients for Ebola at the entrance to the facility, cleaning them off with a chlorine solution, taking their temperature and asking a series of questions. "At our hospital we have tried to create a
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Ebola is creating a new epidemic of untreated illness and injury
Sierra Leonean nurse Veronica Koroma (left) and doctor Donald Samuel Grant (right) stand by a patient in the Lassa fever ward at Kenema Government Hospital in February, 2011
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West Africans have another virus to worry about — Lassa fever
Customers must wash their hands in chlorinated water before entering the boutique, Moie, owned by Patrice Juah in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Welcome to the ‘non-stop, nerve-wracking, temperature-taking, handshake-prohibiting Ebola ride’
A Student Union mosaic wall at University of Akron in Ohio. The university is one of several in the US screening students for Ebola that are returning to campus from West African countries.
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Universities are screening students from West Africa for Ebola as they return to school
Members of a Red Cross burial team put on personal protective equipment before entering the home of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia on Monday, August 18, 2014.
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A photographer gets up close with the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
Residents of West Point, Liberia
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Health experts believe the current Ebola outbreak may infect 20,000 before it’s over
Kent Brantly, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus, smiles during a press conference at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Brantly along with a second American aid worker who contracted Ebola while treating victims of the deadly virus in Libe
Medicine
Two infected Americans are now Ebola-free, but doctors aren’t sure why
News of the spread of the ebola virus has residents of Guinea's capital Conakry on edge.
Health & Medicine
Why the World Health Organization is taking the ebola outbreak in Guinea ‘very seriously’