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Do You listen or read current News? If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you've probably heard that several countries in western Africa are currently contending with the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak. A fast-spreading Ebola epidemic has sparked states of emergency in overwhelmed west African nations as the death toll neared 1000 and an elderly Spanish missionary flew home for treatment. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, MPs gathered to ratify a state of emergency while Sierra Leone sent troops to guard hospitals and clinics handling Ebola cases. Nigeria held out hope it could receive an experimental US-developed drug to halt the spread of the virus. Since breaking out earlier this year, the epidemic has claimed 932 lives and infected more than 1700 people across west Africa, according to the World Health Organisation  The patients all presented with potential Ebola-like symptoms (such as fever, gastrointestinal distress, headache), and ...

"We've got to let the science guide us and I don't think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful," Obama said. "The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place." But he said: "the countries affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is the public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren't able to identify and then isolate cases quickly enough." "As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks that occurred previously." The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it would ask medical ethics experts to explore emergency use of experimental treatments. There is no known cure for Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever that has overwhelmed rudimentary healthcare systems and prompted the deployment of troops to quarantine the worst-hit areas in the remote border region of...

The current news about Ebola is no longer cheering as more people are getting infected, A leading British public health doctor says western drug companies have no reason to cure the deadly Ebola virus because it mostly affects "powerless minority groups"  The international community has failed to deal with the deadly Ebola virus because it mainly kills poor Africans, Britain’s top public health doctor has claimed. Dr John Ashton, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, compared the situation to the early years of the AIDS epidemic and attacked the “moral bankruptcy” of a system which gives drug companies no reason to invest in treatments for “powerless minority groups”. Writing in the Independent on Sunday, he said: “We must respond to this emergency as if it was in Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster. And we must ‘get real’ over economic development. “We must also tackle the scandal of the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research to produ...