Tag: Liberia

Eighty-three percent of Americans believe it is very likely or somewhat likely a new outbreak will crop up. (AP file photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Americans think Ebola is coming back

Robert King · January 20, 2016 4:10 pm

CitingÂ free Liberian elections in 2005 and 2011 and Charles Taylor's 50-year prison sentence as examples of progress, "There is no further need for the blocking of assets imposed by" the Bush order, President Obama wrote. (AP Photo)

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Obama ends sanctions against Liberia

Nicole Duran · November 13, 2015 1:01 am

Preliminary results of a new study released Wednesday clearly proves that the virus persists in the semen of disease survivors longer than previously thought, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo)

Ebola lurks in the body long after you’re cured

Robert King · October 15, 2015 4:01 am

David Nabarro, UN Special Envoy on Ebola, speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of the World Health Organization, WHO, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Sandro Campardo/Keystone via AP)

Sierra Leone sees progress in Ebola fight

Robert King · August 17, 2015 1:57 pm

Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined the area where the corpse of the boy was found, sparking fears this West African country could face another outbreak of the disease nearly two months after being declared Ebola-free. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia has second confirmed Ebola case

Robert King · July 1, 2015 2:38 pm

Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo, center, leaves the Chinese Ebola treatment center were she was treated, surrounded by Ebola health workers on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Liberia released its last Ebola patient, a 58-year old English teacher, from a treatment center in the capital on Thursday, beginning its countdown to being declared Ebola free. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia Ebola-free, says World Health Organization

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 3:53 pm

A separate instance of "possible sexual transmission of Ebola has been reported, although the accompanying evidence was inconclusive," the CDC said in a report Friday. (AP Photo)Â

CDC: Woman may have gotten Ebola after sex with survivor

Robert King · May 1, 2015 3:44 pm

The Ebola virus has hit Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia the hardest so far. (AP Photo)

NIH: Ebola virus not mutating at a fast rate

Robert King · March 26, 2015 10:13 pm

The outbreak has claimed more than 10,000 lives, a majority from the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the WHO. [AP Photo]Â

WHO slow to act on Ebola, doctors group says

Robert King · March 23, 2015 3:45 pm

A large-scale human trial of two potential Ebola vaccines got under way in Liberia's capital Monday, part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that has now claimed nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa. (AP Photo)

West Africa Ebola cases decline, but could bounce back soon

Robert King · February 12, 2015 10:02 pm

A woman is injected by a health care worker, left, as she takes part in an Ebola virus vaccine trial, in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Ebola vaccine trial begins in Liberia

Kelly Cohen · February 3, 2015 4:26 pm

Health workers wearing Ebola protective gear remove the body of a man that they suspect died from the Ebola virus, at a USAID, American aid Ebola treatment center at Tubmanburg on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Ebola death toll nears 7,000

Justin Green · November 29, 2014 6:41 pm