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Good news: Scientists may have discovered a vaccine for Ebola
But it is still some way from hitting the market.
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But it is still some way from hitting the market.
A number of different public bodies attended a training event in Tallaght today.
The centre was built by the UK Government.
However, the risk to the public is said to be “very low”.
The country’s health minister said this does not mean they are completely out of danger.
Mali, however, has recorded just its second death.
Progress is being made in the battle against the disease in the African nation. Another 250-bed centre is treating around 50 patients.
Sources say there is widespread concern about the readiness of frontline staff in the ambulance service.
The patient has already tested positive for malaria.
The person had recently been in an Ebola-affected country.
Where did it come from? And how can it be overcome?
Craig Spencer had recently returned from Africa.
The serum will use the blood of people who recovered from the disease.
Teresa Romero was hospitalised in Madrid on 6 October after contracting the virus while caring for two Ebola patients.
That is the opinion of emergency doctors.
EU ministers have callled for ‘united, coordinated, and increased efforts’ to fight the virus.
Teresa Romero was the first person outside of Africa to contract the virus.
In 1976 a young Belgian doctor ventured across what was then Zaire to find the source of the infection.
Ron Klain is Barack Obama’s “Ebola czar”.
“Obviously everyone in this country hopes that the Ebola virus is a problem that we never have to deal with”.
President Barack Obama said that ‘SWAT-like’ response teams are needed.
Ninety-five Liberian health workers have died so far in the epidemic.
The worker also treated a man who died from the virus.
With the Ebola virus breaking borders, people have been urged not to panic and read up on the facts.
The health worker was in the lower pool of those at risk and was wearing a protective gown, gloves and a mask.
Ireland is fully prepared to deal with any possible Ebola case, the Chief Medical Officer said.
The woman had just returned from working for the Red Cross in Sierra Leone.
The US President said international aid simply is not flowing into West Africa fast enough.
Irish medical personnel are among those who have signed the letter calling on western governments to join the fight.
Members of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Health are set to meet with NGOs to discuss the issue tomorrow.
That’s according to the UN Security Council, which met today.
Food scarcities, rocketing transport costs, closures to schools and clinics – an on-the-ground account of the situation in Liberia.
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.
There has been criticism of the World Health Organisation over the slow response to the Ebola outbreak.
Meanwhile, Morocco has vowed to keep up regularly scheduled flights to Ebola-hit nations in a “solidarity” move.
The HPSC says that the risk of the virus landing in Ireland is “very low”.
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.
The healthcare worker is being flown home on a military plane.
The woman fell ill at a deportation facility, but has tested negative for the disease.
Ebola was suspected as one possibility for man suffering ‘flu-like’ symptoms but he has been cleared by medics.