Ebola
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Ebola vaccine trial seeks volunteers
Would you be willing to be injected with a fragment of the Ebola virus to aid medical research? Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) is looking for volunteers to help it in its search for a vaccine against the deadly disease. It needs healthy
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Ebola threat is 'far from over' say health experts
It is exactly a year since the deadliest outbreak of Ebola was confirmed and health experts and charities have warned the danger is far from over. More than 10,000 have died and at least 24,000 have been infected since the epidemic broke out in
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30 countries 'vulnerable to Ebola-style epidemic'
A new report = has identified that almost 30 countries could be vulnerable to an Ebola-style epidemic. The report on the world's heath systems by Save The Children, entitled A Wake-Up Call: Lessons from Ebola, has ranked the world's
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Flyers 'not honest about diseases'
Airport screening for diseases such as Ebola is ineffective and misses at least half of infected travellers, scientists have said. Passengers worried about being delayed and therefore not being honest about their risk of exposure was found to be
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99 people tested for Ebola in UK
Nearly 100 people have been tested for Ebola in hospitals across the UK so far this year, according to Public Health England (PHE). The deadly virus has claimed more than 5,000 lives across west Africa. In a Freedom of Information response to
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Ebola scare on Canary Islands nudist beach
A group of migrants caused a scare at a nudist beach in the Canary Islands after arriving on land reporting symptoms of Ebola. The 19 migrants from Sierra Leone and Guinea arrived on the Gran Canaria beach of Maspalomas on a fishing boat early
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Plane passenger to pay €2,500 for 'sick' ebola joke
An Italian businessman is to pay €2,500 (approximately £2,000) to charity after making a 'sick joke' about Ebola on a Dublin-bound flight on Thursday. Roberto Binaschi, who was visiting Ireland from Milan for a business
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