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France announces Ebola screenings at Paris airport

Thu, 2014-10-16 14:10 — mike kraft

FRANCE 4 INTERNATIONAL NEWS OCT. 16, 2014

PARIS French health officials tday said screening measures for Ebola among passengers arriving from Guinea would start Saturday at Charles de Gualle airport in Paris.

France became the fourth country –after Britain, the United States and Canada–to announce screening checks for the virus at its main international airport, as the United Nations warned Ebola was outpacing efforts to combat the epidemic.

The announcement came as Spanish authorities said they had isolated an Air France plane at Madrid airport and activated emergency health procedures after one of the passengers was reported to have a fever and shivers in what is being treated as a suspected Ebola case, officials said Thursday.

... French President François Hollande held a video conference Wednesday with his US counterpart Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Italian premier Matteo Renzi to discuss their response to the virus.

EU health ministers are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss measures to deal with the epidemic....

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Ebola Fight in Africa Is Hurt by Limits on Ways to Get Out

Wed, 2014-10-15 20:24 — mike kraft

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By ANDREW HIGGINS OCT. 15, 2014

BRUSSELS — When a French nurse working as a volunteer in West Africa tested positive for Ebolalast month, it took 50 hours to get her to Paris for treatment on a private American plane that had to fly all the way from Georgia to pick her up.

The nurse survived, but according to the aid group that sent her to Liberia and arranged to get her out, Europe’s failure to establish a swift evacuation service for infected medical workers has become a serious hurdle impeding the battle against Ebola in West Africa.

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Doctors Without Borders Evolves as It Forms the Vanguard in Ebola Fight

Sat, 2014-10-11 17:35 — mike kraft

Detailed description of Médecins Sans Frontières struggle to counter Ebola

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By SHERI FINK, ADAM NOSSITER and JAMES KANTER. OCT. 10, 2014

The first to respond to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Doctors Without Borders remains the primary international medical aid group battling the disease there. As local health systems have all but collapsed...its workers have treated the majority of patients, just as they have in previous Ebola outbreaks and some other epidemics in the developing world.

But it, too, has been overwhelmed by the scale of this disaster. In Sierra Leone, it has been strained by the caseload, though it was wary of a decision by other health and government officials on Friday to treat most patients at home because of a shortage of clinic beds. In Guinea the day before, it reported that its two treatment centers were stretched to the limit....

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