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Obama gets Ebola update from virus response team
2014-11-05 04:48:56| Biotech - Topix.net
President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden, Ebola coordinator Ron Klain, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and members of the president's national security and public health teams to receive an update on the Ebola response, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin, AP President Barack Obama meets with his national security and public health teams to receive an update on the Ebola response, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.
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Dallas Nurse Who Contracted Ebola Now Virus Free, To Be Released
2014-10-24 18:38:14| Biotech - Topix.net
One of the nurses who contracted Ebola in Texas is going to be released from a Maryland hospital. Officials at the National Institutes of Health say Nina Pham is now virus free.
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Ebola monitoring inconsistent as virus spread
2014-10-18 22:56:52| Biotech - Topix.net
This photographs shows an excerpt from a Texas Department of State Health Services document that healthcare workers with possible exposure to Ebola are being asked to sign. DALLAS The top administrator in Dallas County rushed to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital this week responding to urgent news: One of its nurses had caught Ebola from a patient.
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US doctor exposed to Ebola virus admitted to NIH
2014-09-29 04:48:43| Biotech - Topix.net
WASHINGTON - An American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone was admitted Sunday to a hospital at the National Institutes of Health near the nation's capital. The patient, who was not identified, arrived at NIH's Clinical Center about 4 p.m., NIH said in a statement on its website.
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An outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa has killed around 53% of those infected
2014-09-17 10:50:51| Biotech - Topix.net
The UK volunteer will be given the candidate inoculation in a safety trial being conducted by experts at the University of Oxford. The testing is part of a series of safety trials of potential vaccines to combat the virus, which could offer hope to the thousands facing the illness in West Africa where an outbreak has killed around 53% of those infected.