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                    [Title] => Government resumes deployment to Guinea
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The government resumed the deployment of workers to Guinea over a year after imposing a deployment ban on the West African country, an official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-24 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1537675 [Title] => Guinea declared free of Ebola, step to end spread of disease [Summary] =>

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] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1433543 [Title] => UN tally of Ebola deaths passes 10,000, most in West Africa [Summary] =>

The World Health Organization marked a grim milestone Thursday in the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, estimating that the virus had killed over 10,000 people, mostly in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-14 02:16:09 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488805 [AuthorName] => Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1429607 [Title] => North Korea lifts Ebola travel restrictions [Summary] =>

North Korea has lifted severe restrictions on foreign travel it imposed last year to keep the Ebola virus from crossing its borders.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-03 10:26:04 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1307351 [AuthorName] => Eric Talmadge [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/travel-and-tourism/20150303/north-korea-ebola.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1411703 [Title] => ‘Locals’ practices, foreign aid to help end Ebola outbreak’ [Summary] =>

Sierra Leone rang in the new year without the usual midnight festivities on its beaches in the steamy capital. Instead, the president urged the nation to stay at home, fast and pray that the plague of Ebola will finally end in West Africa.

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Sierra Leone rang in the new year without the usual midnight festivities on its beaches in the steamy capital. Instead, the president urged the nation to stay at home, fast and pray that the plague of Ebola will finally end in West Africa.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-10 04:34:45 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488809 [AuthorName] => Maria Cheng and Clarence Roy-Macaulay [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/health-and-family/20140806/ebola.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1407927 [Title] => Researchers: IMF policies hindered Ebola response [Summary] =>

Professors from three leading British universities say policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending contributed to the Ebola crisis by hampering health care in the three worst-hit West African countries.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-30 17:33:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1520220 [AuthorName] => Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20141230/Ebola-dangerous-burial.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405144 [Title] => WHO: Recorded Ebola deaths top 7,000 [Summary] =>

The worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed more than 7,000 people, with many of the latest deaths reported in Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization said as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continued his tour of Ebola-affected countries in West Africa on yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-21 05:39:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1176861 [AuthorName] => Boubacar Diallo [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1396435 [Title] => Ebola vaccine seems safe in first-stage testing [Summary] =>

An experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-27 09:11:40 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1448032 [AuthorName] => Lauran Neergaard [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/health-and-family/20140806/ebola.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1392159 [Title] => G20 leaders support fight against Ebola virus [Summary] =>

G20 leaders issued a statement Saturday pledging to fight the Ebola pandemic, which has evolved from a health issue to an economic one. 

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