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Confirmed cross-frontier cases mark significant escalation of epidemic
Aid organisations say deadly disease circulates freely amid attacks
The number of confirmed cases has passed 1,000, making it the second worst in history
Ethical problems arise when outsiders sweep in and out of health emergencies
Payment includes $20m from innovative pandemic emergency facility
Severe outbreak of disease in the DRC tests the limits of financial innovation
At least 426 people have been infected with the virus and 245 people have died since August
Nipah is a less familiar virus than Ebola but may prove a bigger stress test
Rapid roll out of protection kits and traveller screening try to contain deadly virus
Quick action now will save lives and money director-general says
WHO officials warn of ‘new phase’ in latest crisis as number of reported cases rises to 45
Strong childhood immunisation programmes needed as urbanisation gathers pace
Policymakers will face a list of worries, from funding to birth control
Pandemic bonds, Flemming Ornskov, purls of wisdom
WHO hopes Merck drug will quell latest outbreak following successful Guinea trial
WHO scrambles to respond after Kinshasa confirms one case in laboratory tests
Billion-dollar programme aims to cut vaccine-development time from 12 years to one
Financing of $500m to be made instantly available to curb spread of infection
New doses are hard to test as incidence of the disease drops
Despite a shaky start, Liberia became one of the first regions to be declared Ebola-free
National poll looms as Liberia recovers from Ebola and commodity price shocks
In a city that likes to party, Freetown’s wealthy are hitting the night spots again
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