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                    [Title] => Health authorities: 3 new Ebola cases in Liberia
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Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Liberia, a health official said Friday, more than two months after the West African nation was declared Ebola-free for a second time.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-21 11:07:09 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413081 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Paye-Layleh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1503441 [Title] => UN Ebola response now planned to continue into 2016 [Summary] =>

The United Nations is now planning for its Ebola response to last into mid-2016, suggesting the battle against the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people won't be over by year-end, according to a report yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-23 14:38:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1444362 [AuthorName] => Krista Larson [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1488006 [Title] => UN official: Ebola epidemic could be defeated by end of 2015 [Summary] =>

The head of the World Health Organization says the Ebola epidemic in West Africa can be defeated by the end of the year if the number of new cases drops to zero and remains at zero.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-13 10:18:00 [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 ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1436017 [Title] => Liberia investigates how latest Ebola patient got infected [Summary] =>

Liberia is investigating how its latest Ebola patient became infected, after weeks with no cases of the disease in the country.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-21 18:29:49 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140802/ebola-virus-7.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1431689 [Title] => Liberia removes Ebola crematorium as outbreak is contained [Summary] =>

Marking the progress in controlling its Ebola outbreak, the Liberian government dismantled a crematorium and removed drums containing the ashes of more than 3,000 Ebola victims cremated during the height of the epidemic, whose last patient was discharged last week.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-09 04:24:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413081 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Paye-Layleh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1426253 [Title] => Decline in Ebola cases flattens, raising UN concern [Summary] =>

The recent steep drop in the number of Ebola cases has suddenly flattened out, raising " great concern," particularly in Guinea and Sierra Leone, the official leading the World Health Organization's (WHO) Ebola response said on Friday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-21 20:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1425443 [Title] => UN Ebola chief says community action key to ending Ebola [Summary] =>

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] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1417312 [Title] => Liberia: Only 5 people being treated for Ebola in country [Summary] =>

Liberia said yesterday that there are currently only five confirmed cases of Ebola in the entire country — a dramatic turnaround in the West African nation where the virus has taken its deadliest toll.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-27 06:16:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413081 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Paye-Layleh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1391169 [Title] => Peacekeepers back, sent to Caballo Island [Summary] =>

More than 130 soldiers and police officers back home from United Nations peacekeeping duties in Liberia were headed to an island quarantine last night as a precaution against the Ebola virus.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141113/UNPeackeepers-10.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1387545 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Another government folly over Ebola [Summary] =>

There are reportedly close to a thousand Filipino workers in the three Ebola-hit west African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and the government is asking them to voluntarily come home.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20141103/Freetoon.jpg ) ) )
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