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Texas Health Care Workers Prepare For Ebola Patients Using… Tabasco Sauce?

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Niki Hashemi
Web Producer

Hospitals don't need complicated medicine to prepare for Ebola.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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How Ebola Is Spreading Racism

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Corinne Gaston
Deputy Opinion Editor

Are race-based fears of Ebola in the Unitd States feeding into the stereotype of the "diseased African?"

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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CDC Confirms First U.S. Ebola Case

Comments (0) | cdc, dallas, ebola, Ebola outbreak, National, texas, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, U.S., United States

Ebola virus. (NIAID/Flickr)

Belinda Cai
Web Producer

The patient is being treated at a Dallas hospital.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Obama To Send Troops And Medical Aid To Fight Ebola

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Zoe Ward
Web Producer

Obama plans to send American troops and medical aid to West Africa to fight against Ebola.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Ebola Vaccine Will Soon Be Ready

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The meeting was part of a broader mobilization against Ebola. (United States Mission Geneva, Wikimedia Commons)

Ashley Yang
Web Producer

Experimental treatments for the deadly fever will be expedited through the testing process. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Ebola Vaccine Tested On Two Women

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Ebola vaccine is being tested on two women in a fast-tracked clinical trial (Twitter/@YahooNews)

Niki Hashemi
Web Producer

The answer to the Ebola outbreak may be an experimental vaccine.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Ebola Deaths Now Exceed 1,900 And Spreading

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Belinda Cai
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The outbreak could spread to more than 20,000 people before it is contained, according to the WHO.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Ebola Outbreak Causes School Closure In Nigeria

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Medical workers getting ready to tread infected Ebola patients (Creative Commons/European Commission DG ECHO)

Niki Hashemi
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Schools in Nigeria remain closed until mid-October to combat Ebola outbreak.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Ebola Experts Call For Release Of Experimental Drug In Africa

Comments (0) | Africa, ebola, Ebola outbreak, Ebola outbreak 2014, experimental vaccine, Health, Health, vaccination, vaccine, West Africa

Sara Newman
Deputy Editor

People are questioning who should get access to the vaccine. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Ebola Cure Doesn’t Exist Because It’s Not Lucrative

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Ebola is a neglected disease because it afflicts mainly people in developing countries. (European Commission DG ECHO)

Ashley Yang
Executive Producer

And not because scientists aren't smart enough to come up with one.

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