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Friday, 17 April 2015 00:00

Aid workers: Life and death in the time of Ebola

World Vision signs give dignity to Ebola victims whose graves were previously marked only by numbers.

Alison Schafer is a trained psychologist working with the international humanitarian agency World Vision.

On January 12, she went to ­Sierra Leone from her home in Melbourne to work on the social, emotional and psychological effects of the Ebola epidemic, which during the past year has killed more than 10,250 people in ­Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:00

How Ebola Roared Back

Joseph S. Gbembo at a cemetery for Ebola victims in Foya, Liberia. His mother and three other relatives are buried there. The Gbembo lost 17 family members to Ebola in cases stretching from Sierra Leone to Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.

For a fleeting moment last spring, the epidemic sweeping West Africa might have been stopped. But the opportunity to control the virus, which has now caused more than 7,800 deaths, was lost.

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Monday, 01 December 2014 00:00

Ebola crisis: Huge risk of spread - UN's Tony Banbury

Ebola crisis: Huge risk of spread - UN's Tony Banbury

The head of the UN Ebola response mission in West Africa has told the BBC there is still a "huge risk" the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world. Tony Banbury declined to say if targets he had set in the fight against Ebola, to be achieved by Monday, had been met.

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Monday, 10 November 2014 00:00

Ebola cases in Sierra Leone show sharp rise

British soldiers deliver Ebola-related aid to Freetown. Laboratory results on Sunday for patients showed 40 new cases in the capital.

Official figures show 111 new cases on Sunday, the highest daily rate since August, as UN warns numbers may be much higher

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Friday, 07 November 2014 00:00

Obama seeks $6 billion from Congress to fight Ebola in Africa, United States

Sylvia Burwell, left, secretary of Health and Human Services, listens as President Obama speaks to about the government’s Ebola response, next to Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Obama administration has asked Congress for more than $6 billion in emergency funding to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and secure the United States against further spread of the deadly virus.

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