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President George Weah to honour Arsene Wenger in Liberia
Another French coach, Claude LeRoy, will also receive “the highest distinction of the country”.
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Another French coach, Claude LeRoy, will also receive “the highest distinction of the country”.
Her husband and sons may have been infected with the virus as a result.
About 2,700 girls living in Ireland may be at risk of undergoing the practice.
ComReg advised consumers to be vigilant at all times.
The woman was working with the religious charity Franciscan works in Liberia.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance.
In public comments, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan has repeatedly said the epidemic caught the world by surprise.
The Ebola response appears to finally be working. But Sierra Leone has never faced an enemy like this before – the crisis has been devastating.
The Government is set to give an additional €778,000 towards combating the Ebola outbreak.
The former AC Milan star declared himself a “born winner,” after trouncing the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Hopes raised that the trial will “form the basis of a more potent vaccine” – there is currently no effective vaccine against the Ebola or Marburg virus.
Solutions do not come easy, but Ebola transmission can be stopped.
The number of Ebola treatment centre beds and other measures needed to control the epidemic substantially exceeds the total pledged.
16-year-old Kollie James has become Médecins Sans Frontières’ 1,000th Ebola survivor.
This will allow authorities to focus their health checks.
That’s according to Oxfam, which works in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In 1976 a young Belgian doctor ventured across what was then Zaire to find the source of the infection.
Thirty five Ebola survivors told how they the disease had prevented them returning to their old lives.
President Barack Obama said that ‘SWAT-like’ response teams are needed.
The World Health Organisation has said Ebola ‘threatens the very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries’.
The 33-year-old American is to be flown back to the US for treatment.
Darren Hanniffy just came home from Liberia, where Ebola infections are DOUBLING every two weeks.
The 42-year-old father of two passed away yesterday after showing symptoms of the virus.
The current outbreak has killed 2,400 people so far.
Food scarcities, rocketing transport costs, closures to schools and clinics – an on-the-ground account of the situation in Liberia.
It comes after an assessment from the World Health Organization.
The HSE said it would not be providing information on other cases – but that there had been a “handful” of investigations apart from the Donegal death.
New legislation passed as WHO outlines reasons it believes the current Ebola outbreak is being underestimated.
Ebola first appeared in 1976. The current outbreak has killed more than 1,300 people, with experts warning it could take six months to bring under control.
He had been treated with an experimental US serum after being evacuated from Liberia to Spain.
“When the result was positive, I remember a deep sense of peace that was beyond all understanding,” he said.
The deadly disease has killed around two-thirds of those affected.
An experimental drug called ZMapp reportedly improved the patient’s condition.
Two aid workers are in a serious but stable condition after becoming infected.
Meanwhile, West African states announce an ‘isolation zone’ sealing off the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak.
Dr Kent Brantly had been working to contain the outbreak, which has killed more than 660 people already.
The outbreak started in Guinea in early 2014 and has spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
A suggestion that untested vaccines should be used has attracted controversy.
101 deaths have been recorded to date in Guinea, and 12 in neighbouring Liberia.
Meanwhile, Senegal has closed border crossings to Guinea “until further notice” in an attempt to contain the deadly virus.