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    NEWS W.H.O. Assails Delay in Ebola Vaccine

    The leader of the World Health Organization criticized the drug industry on Monday, saying that the drive for profit was one reason no vaccine had yet been found for Ebola. In a Link Removed at a regional conference in Cotonou, Benin, Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the W.H.O., also...
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    NEWS Ebola cases 'surge' in rural Sierra Leone

    Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than two months ago, a report by the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) said. On average, 12 new cases a day were seen in the rural areas surrounding Freetown in late October, compared with 1.3 cases in early September, the...
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    NEWS Ask Well: Is the Ebola Epidemic Ending in Africa?

    Q: Is the Ebola epidemic ending in Africa? A: No one knows exactly what is going on in West Africa. Several medical groups, like Doctors Without Borders, are reporting that they suddenly have far more beds than patients. In some cases, there are empty beds at centers where, just a few weeks ago...
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    VIDEO Ebola outbreak: Nurse infected in Spain

    :eek: A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid has become the first person in the world to contract the deadly virus outside of Africa. The 44-year-old is said to have spent the last 15 years working at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, where the two Spanish missionaries infected with...
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    VIDEO Africa's Moonshine Epidemic

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    VIDEO Ebola contacts in Africa go missing

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    VIDEO African' with Ebola virus stowaway's body found on US military plane raises fears

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    VIDEO David McKenzie travels into the Ebola epicenter

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    VIDEO Waka Waka This is Africa

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    Microsoft Launches Swahili Language Windows 7

    NAIROBI, Feb 17 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Software giant Microsoft has launched its latest Windows 7 operating system in Kiswahili in a move intended to allow more than 150 million Swahili speakers in Kenya and other parts of Africa to access a broader range of its software programmes. Link Removed...
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    Microsoft Launches Swahili Language Windows 7

    NAIROBI, Feb 17 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- Software giant Microsoft has launched its latest Windows 7 operating system in Kiswahili in a move intended to allow more than 150 million Swahili speakers in Kenya and other parts of Africa to access a broader range of its software programmes. Link Removed...
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    Naomi Campbell may be subpoenaed by war crimes court

    BBC News - Naomi Campbell may be subpoenaed by war crimes court War crimes prosecutors in The Hague say supermodel Naomi Campbell should be subpoenaed to testify at the trial of Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor. They say Ms Campbell "was given rough diamonds" by Mr Taylor in 1997 at...
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