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# precautions

Rwanda reopens border with DR Congo after being closed for hours amid latest Ebola outbreak

A third case has been detected in the border city of Goma, home to 2 million people.

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Aug 1st 2019, 8:42 PM

# finding a cure

Experimental Ebola vaccines may be lifeline for African countries

Hopes raised that the trial will “form the basis of a more potent vaccine” – there is currently no effective vaccine against the Ebola or Marburg virus.

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Dec 23rd 2014, 10:30 AM

# ebola virus

GOAL wants an Irish singer from Band Aid 30 to travel to West Africa before Christmas

The chief executive of the charity says they are very welcome to visit the GOAL programmes in Sierra Leone.

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Nov 17th 2014, 7:57 PM

# All Clear

Spanish nurse definitively cured of Ebola

Teresa Romero was hospitalised in Madrid on 6 October after contracting the virus while caring for two Ebola patients.

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Oct 21st 2014, 4:59 PM

Voices

Column: What is life like in a city hit by Ebola? An Irish voice from Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is a very friendly, sociable place but that is changing. People are avoiding church and the mosque, and shops have chlorine buckets outside for people to wash their hands before they enter.

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Oct 17th 2014, 1:00 PM

# ebola virus

This is what happens when you claim to have Ebola on an aeroplane

Fakes on a plane.

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Oct 10th 2014, 2:52 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Should animals at risk of the Ebola virus be killed?

Excalibur, the pet dog of an infected Spanish nurse, is due to be euthanised.

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Oct 8th 2014, 10:08 AM

Voices

Opinion: The threat of Ebola and the 'Responsibility to Protect'

The international community is pouring its efforts into containing the criminal militancy of Isis, but we should turn our attention to funding Ebola emergency relief.

Oct 1st 2014, 1:15 PM