Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been struggling since March to stop what has become the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. The disease is causing widespread fear and disruption in West Africa, and shows no signs of being brought under control.
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary who contracted Ebola in Liberia this August, was first treated there. Each nurse on the ward cared for 15 or 20 patients, and none could work for more than an hour at a time because the protective gear was so suffocatingly hot. They never drew
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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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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Mr. Ibrahima Cisse Bio Senior VP Promotions, Chief Protocol Officer and Secretary, Go Africa Network Inc. (Non-profit) and ASG Global Trade Inc. Mr. Ibrahima Cisse has with over 25 years of experience in Health, Human Services and Wellness in the New York Metro area which entities such as African Services Committee, Harlem Hospital and
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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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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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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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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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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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