Ebola Crisis

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  Too many in Congo's Ebola outbreak are dying at home

  Associated Press - By KRISTA LARSON

  BENI, Congo (AP) — Two-month-old Lahya Kathembo became an orphan in a day. Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her father was dead, too. They had been sick for more than a week before health workers finally persuaded them to seek treatment, neighbors said. They believed …

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  Congo student with Ebola still finds a way to take exams

  Associated Press - By KRISTA LARSON

  BENI, Congo (AP) — Claude Mabowa Sasi had lost his mother, a brother and a sister to Ebola. Instead of fearing death when he, too, was diagnosed with the disease, the young man had a different worry: How would he complete his college entrance exams? It had been his mother’s greatest hope that Mabowa …

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  Ebola vaccine's promise undermined by deep distrust in Congo

  Associated Press - By KRISTA LARSON

  BENI, Congo (AP) — Until his last breath, Salomon Nduhi Kambale insisted he had been poisoned by someone and that was the reason he was vomiting blood. The 30-year-old man wouldn’t give community health teams his phone number, and when they found it, he hung up on them. Health workers were desperate …

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  AP Photos: The struggle against Ebola in eastern Congo

  Associated Press - By JEROME DELAY

  BENI, Congo (AP) — They made their way through the thick forest like astronauts carrying a fallen comrade. Their booted steps were slow and deliberate as if they walked on the moon. A few men waited by a freshly dug grave, checking their smartphones. Without ceremony, the body of Mussa Kathembo was …

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  War-weakened South Sudan tries to prepare for Ebola

  Associated Press - By SAM MEDNICK

  JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — With the deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo now an international emergency , neighboring South Sudan and its war-weakened health system is a major concern, especially after one case was confirmed near its border. Health experts say there is an urgent need to increase prevention …

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  Congo soldiers, police to enforce Ebola emergency measures

  Associated Press - By KRISTA LARSON and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO

  GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese soldiers and police will enforce hand-washing and fever checks now that the deadly Ebola outbreak has been declared an international health emergency , authorities said Thursday. Full Coverage: Ebola virus Soldiers and police will “force” people who resist taking the key …

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  Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency

  Associated Press - By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN

  GENEVA (AP) — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people . A WHO expert committee declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health …