# outbreak - Friday 24 October, 2014
# Doctors Without Borders
# Doctors Without Borders
Craig Spencer had recently returned from Africa.
# outbreak - Wednesday 22 October, 2014
# Serum
# Serum
The serum will use the blood of people who recovered from the disease.
# outbreak - Tuesday 21 October, 2014
# All Clear
# All Clear
Teresa Romero was hospitalised in Madrid on 6 October after contracting the virus while caring for two Ebola patients.
# Are You Ready?
# Are You Ready?
That is the opinion of emergency doctors.
# outbreak - Monday 20 October, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
EU ministers have callled for ‘united, coordinated, and increased efforts’ to fight the virus.
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Teresa Romero was the first person outside of Africa to contract the virus.
# outbreak - Saturday 18 October, 2014
# Photographs
# Photographs
In 1976 a young Belgian doctor ventured across what was then Zaire to find the source of the infection.
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Ron Klain is Barack Obama’s “Ebola czar”.
# outbreak - Thursday 16 October, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
“Obviously everyone in this country hopes that the Ebola virus is a problem that we never have to deal with”.
# outbreak - Wednesday 15 October, 2014
# Virus
# Virus
President Barack Obama said that ‘SWAT-like’ response teams are needed.
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Ninety-five Liberian health workers have died so far in the epidemic.
# Dallas
# Dallas
The worker also treated a man who died from the virus.
# outbreak - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
# Virus
# Virus
With the Ebola virus breaking borders, people have been urged not to panic and read up on the facts.
# outbreak - Sunday 12 October, 2014
# Dallas
# Dallas
The health worker was in the lower pool of those at risk and was wearing a protective gown, gloves and a mask.
# outbreak - Friday 10 October, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Ireland is fully prepared to deal with any possible Ebola case, the Chief Medical Officer said.
# outbreak - Thursday 9 October, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The woman had just returned from working for the Red Cross in Sierra Leone.
# outbreak - Friday 26 September, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The US President said international aid simply is not flowing into West Africa fast enough.
# EBOLA
# EBOLA
Irish medical personnel are among those who have signed the letter calling on western governments to join the fight.
# outbreak - Tuesday 23 September, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Members of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Health are set to meet with NGOs to discuss the issue tomorrow.
# outbreak - Thursday 18 September, 2014
# UN Security Council
# UN Security Council
That’s according to the UN Security Council, which met today.
# outbreak - Thursday 11 September, 2014
# The Toll
# The Toll
Food scarcities, rocketing transport costs, closures to schools and clinics – an on-the-ground account of the situation in Liberia.
# outbreak - Saturday 6 September, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
People won’t be allowed out of their homes during the period of the lockdown, and over 20,000 people are being hired to enforce it.
# outbreak - Friday 5 September, 2014
# EBOLA
# EBOLA
There has been criticism of the World Health Organisation over the slow response to the Ebola outbreak.
# outbreak - Saturday 30 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Meanwhile, Morocco has vowed to keep up regularly scheduled flights to Ebola-hit nations in a “solidarity” move.
# outbreak - Wednesday 27 August, 2014
# Contain It
# Contain It
The HPSC says that the risk of the virus landing in Ireland is “very low”.
# outbreak - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
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.
# outbreak - Sunday 24 August, 2014
# EBOLA
# EBOLA
The healthcare worker is being flown home on a military plane.
# outbreak - Saturday 16 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The woman fell ill at a deportation facility, but has tested negative for the disease.
# outbreak - Friday 15 August, 2014
# Stand Down
# Stand Down
Ebola was suspected as one possibility for man suffering ‘flu-like’ symptoms but he has been cleared by medics.
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
A Dublin hospital had restricted access to the patient as they investigated Ebola as a possibility – they have now cleared him.
# Underestimated
# Underestimated
The official death toll has now climbed to 1,069.
# outbreak - Thursday 14 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The number of people who have died has now hit 1,069.
# outbreak - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
He had been treated with an experimental US serum after being evacuated from Liberia to Spain.
# outbreak - Monday 11 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
The results will be available in 48 hours, the country’s health ministry said.
# outbreak - Saturday 9 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Not too bad, actually.
# outbreak - Friday 8 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
“When the result was positive, I remember a deep sense of peace that was beyond all understanding,” he said.
# Virus
# Virus
The GOAL support team will travel to areas worst affected by the outbreak.
# outbreak - Tuesday 5 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Almost 900 people have died across west Africa in the deadliest outbreak of Ebola ever recorded.
# outbreak - Monday 4 August, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country.
# outbreak - Saturday 2 August, 2014
# Africa
# Africa
The World Health Organisation says consequences could be “catastrophic” if the disease continues to spread.
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