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                    [Title] => Guinea declared free of Ebola, step to end spread of disease
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Guinea was declared Ebola-free on yesterday, a huge step in the fight against the world's largest Ebola epidemic.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-29 16:03:01 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1416944 [Title] => WHO adopts reforms to repair reputation after bungling Ebola [Summary] =>

The World Health Organization has proposed reforms that could overhaul its structure after botching the response to the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, a sluggish performance that experts say cost thousands of lives.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-26 07:00:45 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488805 [AuthorName] => Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1380847 [Title] => Obama warns Ebola could spread globally [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United States and warned that in an age of frequent travel the disease could spread globally if the world doesn't respond to the "raging epidemic in West Africa."

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-16 08:20:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390382 [AuthorName] => Jim Kuhnhenn [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141010/Ebola-Philippines-Benigno-Aquino.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1379710 [Title] => CDC: Protocol breach in treating Ebola patient [Summary] =>

Top federal health officials said yesterday that the Ebola diagnosis in a health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at a Texas hospital clearly indicates a breach in safety protocol.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-13 07:08:58 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1214591 [AuthorName] => Carole Feldman [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1378620 [Title] => Ebola: How it spreads [Summary] =>

Here are some facts about how Ebola spreads...

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-10 07:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/health-and-family/20140806/ebola.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1362674 [Title] => US official warns Ebola outbreak will get worse [Summary] =>

A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a government official said yesterday, as a leading American health official warned that the outbreak sweeping West Africa would get worse before it gets better.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-28 05:18:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1236823 [AuthorName] => Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Jonathan Paye-Layleh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1362311 [Title] => Ebola has 'upper hand,' says US official [Summary] =>

The Ebola virus may have the "upper hand" in an outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa but experts can stop the virus' spread, a top American health official said at the start of his visit to the hardest-hit countries.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-27 07:02:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413073 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Paye Layleh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1356743 [Title] => Ethical questions emerge over who gets Ebola drug [Summary] =>

In a development that raises a host of ethical issues, Spain announced it had obtained a scarce US-made experimental Ebola drug to treat a Spanish missionary priest infected with the killer virus.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-12 02:04:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1233020 [AuthorName] => Ciaran Giles and Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1355300 [Title] => WHO: Ebola outbreak an international health emergency [Summary] =>

 The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-08 16:48:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488805 [AuthorName] => Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140808/Sierra-Leone-West-Africa-Ebola.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1345446 [Title] => Anthrax scare reveals more CDC lab safety problems [Summary] =>

Citing an anthrax scare and a recurring problem with safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday shut down two research labs and stopped shipping highly dangerous germs to other labs.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-12 02:12:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1524793 [AuthorName] => Mike Stobbe [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) ) )
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