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Ebola burials target met as number of cases plateaus

The WHO has achieved its 1 December target for safe burial of people who have died of Ebola. Now efforts need to focus on isolation facilities in Sierra Leone

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HIV evolves into less deadly form

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HIV evolves into less deadly form

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Hackathon develops tech tools to fight Ebola epidemic

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Hackathon develops tech tools to fight Ebola epidemic

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Seastar ripper prime suspect pinned down

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Seastar ripper prime suspect pinned down

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Ebola blood and drug trials to start in December

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Ebola blood and drug trials to start in December

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A killer plague wouldn't save the planet from us

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Future scenarios show how easily Ebola could explode

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Future scenarios show how easily Ebola could explode

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Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

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Cutting off the Ebola zone would be a mistake

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Slumdog mapmakers fill in the urban blanks

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Slumdog mapmakers fill in the urban blanks

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Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

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Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics, say Harvey Rubin and Nicholas Saidel

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Why closing borders won't stop Ebola's rampage

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Ebola deaths to peak in places before vaccine is ready

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Ebola could never spread widely here. Could it?

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All countries likely to see Ebola cases by year's end

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