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Treating Those Treating Ebola in Liberia

TheNewYorkTimes: A dedicated Ebola field hospital for health workers, is scheduled to open soon outside Monrovia, Liberia.

November 6, 2014
| Filed under Africa, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Ebola in Africa: An update

The spread of the virus has slowed in Liberia, but has accelerated in Sierra Leone

November 6, 2014
| Filed under Africa and Public Health
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Judge says nurse who treated Ebola patients does not have to be fully quarantined

TheWashingtonPost: A judge who had temporarily agreed to quarantine Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who had treated Ebola patients, ruled Friday that she did not have to have her movements restricted.

November 3, 2014
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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U.N. Panel Issues Its Starkest Warning Yet on Global Warming

NewYorkTimes: The gathering risks of climate change are so profound that they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway pace, according to a major new United Nations report.

November 3, 2014
| Filed under International and Public Health
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Mounting a Good Offense against Measles

NewEnglandJournalofMedicine: Doctors and public health authorities need to renew their attention to measles, researchers from Emory Vaccine Center urge.

November 3, 2014
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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