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Ebola may persist in semen for 9 months – study

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FIGHTING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. A file handout photograph made available by the Royal Free Hopsital in north west London, England on 30 December 2014 showing a general view of the high level isolation unit (HLIU), used for the treatment of infectious diseases at the hospital on 22 August 2014. David C. Bishop/ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL/EPA

MIAMI, USA (Oct. 14, 2015) — The Ebola virus may persist in some men’s semen for 9 months after they were initially infected, far longer than previously thought, according to preliminary research out Wednesday, October 14.

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British Ebola nurse now ‘critically ill’

EBOLA PATIENT. Scottish health worker Pauline Cafferky is treated several months ago for Ebola. File photo by AFP

LONDON, United Kingdom (Oct. 14, 2015) — A British nurse who was successfully treated in January after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone is now “critically ill” due to a resurgence of the virus, the hospital treating her said on Wednesday, October 14.

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WHO chief calls for urgent transformation of global epidemic response

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. China’s Margaret Chan, General Director of the World Health Organization, WHO, addresses her statement during the special session on Ebola of the Executive Board, at the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, January 25, 2015. Salvatore di Nolfi/EPA

GENEVA, Switzerland (Aug. 24, 2015) — The World Health Organization chief acknowledged Monday, August 24, that the response to the West African Ebola outbreak fell far short, calling for an urgent overhaul of the international response to epidemics.

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70,000 Liberian births unrecorded in Ebola crisis — UNICEF

In this photo taken on July 8, 2014, Ebola advocacy group Crusaders for Peace, spokesperson Juli Endee, right, educates people on the deadly virus in Paynesville, east of the city Monrovia, Liberia. AP

MONROVIA, Liberia (July 31, 2015) — More than 70,000 Liberian babies were born without being registered as the deadly Ebola epidemic ravaged the impoverished west African nation, leaving them without healthcare and vulnerable to trafficking, UNICEF said Friday.

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Liberia announces two more confirmed Ebola cases

EBOLA’S RETURN. Red Cross workers, wearing protective suits, carry the body of a person who died from Ebola during a burial with relatives of the victims of the virus, in Monrovia, on January 5, 2015. File photo by Zoom Dosso/AFP

MONROVIA, Liberia (July 2, 2015) — Liberia said Wednesday, July 1, a teenager who died of Ebola fever had spread the virus to at least two more people, confirming the first outbreak of the tropical disease for months.

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