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By Region: North America

Death of Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas Fuels Alarm Over Ebola

NewYorkTimes: The death Wednesday morning of Mr. Duncan, 42, the Liberian man at the center of a widening public health scare and the first person with a case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States, heightened anxiety and fear here

October 9, 2014
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Ebola Help for Sierra Leone Is Nearby, but Delayed on the Docks

TheNewYorkTimes: For the past 2 months, a shipping container packed with protective gowns, gloves, stretchers, mattresses and other medical supplies needed to help fight Sierra Leone’s exploding Ebola epidemic.

October 6, 2014
| Filed under Africa, North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Botulinum Neurotoxin Countermeasure Discovery

GlobalBiodefense: U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) is contracting with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Inc. (IAS) in support of the Defense Threat and Reduction Agency (DTRA) Multicenter Program for Developing Treatments for Botulinum Neurotoxin Intoxication (BoNT).

October 6, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, and Countermeasures
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Dallas Ebola patient ‘fighting for his life,’ CDC head says.

TheWashingtonPost- Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in critical condition, remains the only person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Officials are closely monitoring people with whom Duncan has come into contact for signs of the infection, he said.

October 6, 2014
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Scrutiny in Texas to Detect Whether Ebola Has Spread

TheNewYorkTimes: The man who has become the first Ebola patient to develop symptoms in the United States told officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital last Friday that he had just arrived from West Africa but was not admitted that day because that information was not passed along at the hospital, officials acknowledged Wednesday.