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US to begin safety testing Ebola vaccine next week

YoopyaAug 28, 2014July 16, 20230

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal researchers next week will start testing humans with an experimental vaccine to prevent the deadly Ebola virus. The National Institutes of

West Africans get creative with Ebola awareness

YoopyaAug 27, 2014July 25, 20230

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A young man on camera names the person who’s challenged him to dump the contents of a bucket over his

Ebola has ‘upper hand’ says US health official

YoopyaAug 27, 2014July 25, 20230

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Ebola still has the upper hand in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts

Insight: How aggressive lending came back to bite South African bank Abil

YoopyaAug 21, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Unemployed South African construction worker Daniel isn’t sure how he fell so deeply in debt. All he knows is that African Bank Investments

Liberia police fire on protesters as West Africa’s Ebola toll hits 1,350

YoopyaAug 21, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Police in the Liberian capital fired live rounds and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola

China presses South Sudan over renewed violence

YoopyaAug 20, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – China’s foreign minister pressed his South Sudan counterpart over renewed violence in the oil-rich state, demanding an immediate ceasefire and political dialogue in

Nigeria former anti-graft tsar defects to scandal-hit, ruling PDP

YoopyaAug 20, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s former anti-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu has defected to the ruling People’s Democratic Party to contest a state election, in a filip for

Korean Air suspends flights to Kenya over Ebola worries

YoopyaAug 14, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Thursday it will suspend flights to and from Nairobi from August 20 to prevent the spread

Another doctor dies of Ebola as death numbers climb

YoopyaAug 13, 2014July 29, 20230

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – A leading physician in Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said Wednesday, as it emerged

Spain gets rare Ebola drug to treat stricken priest

YoopyaAug 12, 2014September 2, 20230

A Spanish priest has received one of the world’s few doses of an experimental Ebola drug, raising ethical questions about how to allocate scarce medicines