Tag: sierra-leone
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In post-Ebola Sierra Leone, more than half the population face food shortages: U.N.
By Lin Taylor LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As Sierra Leone recovers from the deadly effects of Ebola, more than half the population face food shortages, and many will not cope if further disasters such as drought or floods strike, U.N. food agencies said on Thursday. Food shortages in most of the West African are…
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Myanmar confirms first case of Zika virus infection: state TV
A pregnant foreign woman in Myanmar’s largest city Yangon has been diagnosed with Zika, the first case of the mosquito-borne virus in the southeast Asian country, state-owned Myanmar TV (MRTV) said on Thursday. Zika has spread to some 60 countries and territories since the current outbreak was identified last year in Brazil, raising alarm over…
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UK nurse who got Ebola in West Africa hospitalized again
LONDON (AP) — A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been hospitalized for a fourth time.
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Fourth person dies of Ebola in latest flare up in Guinea
A fourth person has died of Ebola in Guinea in the latest flare up of an epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people in that country, Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013 but now claims few victims. “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is dead,” said Fode…
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Italy rescues 910 boat migrants, nearly 600 saved off Libya
MILAN/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Italy’s coast guard said more than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on Saturday, while Libyan authorities said they had rescued nearly 600 migrants from four boats, one of which sank. A spokesman for Libyan naval forces, Ayoub Qassem, said the bodies of four dead…
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British Ebola survivor discharged from hospital
A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone in 2014 was discharged from hospital in London on Sunday, five days after being admitted with complications, a statement said. Pauline Cafferkey was successfully treated within weeks of her diagnosis but suffered a relapse in October 2015, when she became critically ill with meningitis…
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Redemption in Liberia: a hospital’s painful recovery from Ebola
By Kieran Guilbert MONROVIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The cries of young children ring around the hospital as hundreds of patients, packed tightly together on wooden benches and surrounded by boxes of syringes piled high, wait to be seen. Nurses shout to be heard as they rush through the dimly-lit corridors, past peeling, faded posters…
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Sierra Leone has 2nd Ebola case after epidemic believed over
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A second case of Ebola emerged in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over, with a close relative of the first victim testing positive for the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people, authorities said Thursday.
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Sierra Leone investigating suspected Ebola death: health ministry
Sierra Leone's Health Ministry said on Thursday it was investigating a suspected Ebola death in Tonkolili district, hours after the World Health Organization said transmission of the virus in West Africa had ended. “A suspected Ebola death has been reported in Tonkolili district today,” said a note sent by the ministry to health officials in…