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New Ebola clinics useless without more trained staff
2014-09-20 15:24:32| IT Services - Topix.net
A shortage of volunteers to staff the new Ebola clinics and hospitals the international community is building in West Africa threatens efforts to bring the deadly virus rapidly under control, aid agencies have warned. "The missing link is staff," Athalia Christie, deputy for global health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who has just returned from Liberia, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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McKesson, California nurses union fight Ebola; Nothing yet from big Bay Area hospitals
2014-09-19 21:05:43| Biotech - Topix.net
McKesson Corp. appears to be the first big San Francisco Bay Area health care giant to offer significant help to nations in West Africa stricken by the largest Ebola outbreak in history. The San Francisco-based drug distribution and health IT giant said Thursday it's sending 4 million pairs of latex gloves to Sierra Leone, one of the hardest hit nations.
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How Climate Change Exacerbates Spread of Disease, Including Ebola
2014-09-18 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Institute: The accelerating ebola epidemic in West Africa, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has called unprecedented, has so far killed more than half the 3,069 people who contracted the disease in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. The WHO fears it could eventually affect 20,000 people. Ebola can live in animals for years without making them sick; it is transmitted to humans through contact with an infected animal. Once in a human, the disease is spread by direct contact with the bodily...
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VIDEO: World Bank's Ebola warning
2014-09-17 23:01:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The World Bank says the Ebola outbreak could have a catastrophic impact on the economies of West Africa.
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Ebola could wreck W Africa economies
2014-09-17 16:30:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Ebola outbreak could have a catastrophic economic impact on three West African countries, the World Bank says.
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