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October 2014

Ebola Facts: Where Are the Most New Cases Being Reported?

Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Montserrado County in Liberia, which includes the capital, Monrovia, recorded over 300 new cases in the week ended Oct 21. One of the country’s challenges has been the lack of laboratories to test for Ebola. The United States Navy opened a new mobile laboratory in Monrovia earlier this month. Note: […]

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Google Fit walks onto Android devices

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Arriving some months after its initial introduction, Google Fit aims to track a variety of Android users activities. First announced at Google I/O 2014, Google Fit is finally available for Android users everywhere. Offered as an Android app, the client tracks a host of user activities, including walking, running, and

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New York City Police to Be Equipped With Smartphones and Tablets

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The New York Police Department will begin equipping all of its officers with smartphones and outfitting many police cars with tablet computers in an effort to modernize the nation’s largest police force, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced on Thursday. The program, the N.Y.P.D. Mobility Initiative, will distribute 41,000 devices

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Ebola Vaccine Trials Planned for December

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Public health authorities said Friday they hoped to begin trials of Ebola vaccines in disease-ravaged West Africa as early as December and could know around April whether they were effective, clearing the way for possible mass inoculations to stem the epidemic. “Vaccine is not the magic bullet,” Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny

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Without Lucrative Market, Potential Ebola Vaccine Was Shelved for Years

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GALVESTON, Tex. — Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said

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West Africa: Researchers Develop Quick Ebola Diagnosis Device

Follow us on Twitter:  GoAfricaNetwork The new tool, developed by France’s Atomic Energy Commission, could allow doctors to diagnose a patient with suspected Ebola in under 15 minutes. France’s Atomic Energy Commission said that the device, which has undergone trials at a high-security for validating the technique and prototype, would be available in Ebola-hit countries

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Google offers guide to help iOS users switch to Android

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Designed for iPhone and iPad users, the new Switch website explains everything from transferring photos and music to setting up email and messaging. Google has launched a website called Switch that has one goal in mind: educate Apple iPhone and iPad users on how they can easily move their data

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W.H.O. Declares Nigeria Free of Ebola

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GENEVA — The World Health Organization declaredNigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, officially free ofEbola infections on Monday, calling the outcome the triumphal result of “world class epidemiological detective work.” The announcement came 42 days after the last reported infection in Nigeria’s outbreak, twice the maximum incubation period for the Ebola

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In Conspicuous Success, Senegal Is Declared Ebola-Free

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the West African nation of Senegal to be free of Ebola on Friday, a rare success in dealing with a deadly virus that has rampaged uncontrolled in neighboring countries and prompted alarm around the world. Senegal’s achievement came as the health organization was

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