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                    [Title] => Sierra Leone releases its last known Ebola patient
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Health authorities in Sierra Leone released the country's last known Ebola patient from the hospital on yesterday, a milestone that allows the nation to begin a 42-day countdown to being declared free of the virus that has killed nearly 4,000 people here.

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West Africa's fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is claiming many thousands more lives than the dreaded virus.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-29 04:47:48 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1520220 [AuthorName] => Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1392431 [Title] => Surgeon with Ebola arrives in US for treatment [Summary] =>

A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Nebraska Saturday for treatment at a biocontainment unit where two other people with the disease have been successfully treated.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-16 13:00:24 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488641 [AuthorName] => Margery Beck and Jessica Gresko [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1373407 [Title] => Sierra Leone quarantines 2 million to fight Ebola [Summary] =>

Sierra Leone on Thursday took the dramatic step of sealing off districts where more than 1 million people live as it and other West African countries struggle to control the Ebola outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-26 06:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1236822 [AuthorName] => Clarence Roy-Macaulay [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1366422 [Title] => WHO: Use Ebola survivors' blood to treat patients [Summary] =>

Desperate to restore hope amid the Ebola crisis, the World Health Organization said Friday it would accelerate the use of experimental treatments and vaccines to contain the expanding epidemic in West Africa.

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Desperate to restore hope amid the Ebola crisis, the World Health Organization said Friday it would accelerate the use of experimental treatments and vaccines to contain the expanding epidemic in West Africa.

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A furniture brand that has been creating ripples and excitement in the international market has recently landed in Manila.

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More than 200 people including many schoolchildren returning from holidays remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized in the West African nation and left at least eight dead, police said.

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