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                    [Title] => UN Ebola chief says community action key to ending Ebola
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The goal set by the presidents of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea of reducing the number of new cases of the deadly disease to zero by April 15 can be reached — but only if local communities stop unsafe burials and healing practices that involve human contact, the UN Ebola chief said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-19 06:15:03 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289604 [AuthorName] => Edith M. Lederer [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1422910 [Title] => Obama says US has 'risen to the challenge' of fighting Ebola [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama heralded a "new phase in the fight" against Ebola on Wednesday and said progress against the outbreak in West Africa will allow the U.S. to withdraw nearly all American troops sent to Liberia last fall.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-12 09:00:52 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390382 [AuthorName] => Jim Kuhnhenn [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150212/Obama-Ebola.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1416628 [Title] => Tide turning in Ebola fight after hard lessons [Summary] =>

A top UN official in the fight against Ebola greeted just three patients at one treatment center he visited this week in Sierra Leone. Families in Liberia are no longer required to cremate the remains of loved ones to halt the spread of the virulent disease.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-25 05:51:40 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1444364 [AuthorName] => Krista Larson and Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1415195 [Title] => UN: Fight against Ebola is far from won [Summary] =>

Close to 1,000 new cases were recorded in the last three weeks despite recent progress in fighting Ebola in West Africa and "the fight is far from won," the U.N. mission chief said Tuesday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-21 08:32:43 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289604 [AuthorName] => Edith M. Lederer [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1401858 [Title] => UN says several months needed to control Ebola [Summary] =>

The U.N. Ebola chief said Thursday it will take several more months before the outbreak in West Africa is under control, an assessment that makes clear the U.N.'s goal of isolating 100 percent of Ebola cases by Jan. 1 won't be met.

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At least $600 million is needed to fight West Africa's current Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization announced yesterday, as the death toll shot up by about 400 in a week to more than 1,900 people.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-04 04:26:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1738898 [AuthorName] => Sarah Dil Orenzo and Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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