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Health care workers who caught Ebola while treating its victims in the US and in Africa continue to struggle with poor health and the stigma of the disease.

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The social disruption and fear created by the Ebola epidemic in Africa may open the door to a second, larger epidemic, of measles.

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A new report from Doctors Without Borders excoriates the international response to Ebola, and at the annual TED conference, Bill Gates outlines how to do better next time.

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The patient was taken to hospital in a specially equipped ambulance on Wednesday night. After undergoing tests, they were found not to have been infected with Ebola.

The patient is being kept in hospital and is being tested for other medical conditions. They were being looked after in an isolated area of the hospital, away from other patients, visitors and staff.

Ebola symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, muscle pain, fever, weakness and a lack of appetite and can surface from between 2 and 21 days after exposure.

The disease is spread via direct contact with blood and bodily fluids of an infected person, and is not spread through air, water, food or mosquitoes.

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Since the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa last year, more than 10, 460 people are reported to have died, mostly in the three hardest hit countries - Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

There have been more than 24,750 reported cases of the disease, according to the WHO. However, the figures are underestimates given the difficulty of collecting accurate data in Ebola-affected countries, which are among the worlds poorest.

Eleven people have been treated for Ebola in the US with four of them being actually diagnosed positive in the country, while the other seven were medically evacuated from other countries. Two people, both nurses, contracted Ebola in the US while treating an Ebola patient.

Ebola survivors immune systems now make antibodies to the virus. Those antibodies are, essentially, the goal medicine.

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An international coalition of researchers might have an effective Ebola vaccine.

The post At Last: An Ebola Vaccine That Might Actually Work appeared first on WIRED.

Erika Check Hayden traveled to Sierra Leone to report on the front lines of the fight against Ebola.

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For some of Ebolas survivors, the virus effects still linger. But doctors dont know why.

The post Some Ebola Survivors Still Suffer—And Doctors Don’t Know Why appeared first on WIRED.

Outbreaks force governments to play an excruciating game of catch up as they scramble to develop vaccines for new pathogens. It doesnt have to be that way.

The post Vaccines Weren’t Ready for Ebola. We Can Do Better appeared first on WIRED.