Volunteer to Help Ship 8,000 Phones to Fight Ebola

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We need volunteers in Seattle this week to help with a program that supports the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER). Together, we will be shipping 8,000 smartphones to West Africa. Currently, communication barriers prohibit humanitarian workers in West Africa from helping the people that need them most. The UNMEER phones will be installed with software that allows community support centers to quickly connect the right people with...

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Why is the world on alert for Ebola right now?

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Since the WHO declared an international crises caused by Ebola Virus Disease, governments have embarked on measures to preempt the contagiousness of the epidemic. The goal is to ensure that the world is not decimated by this deadly disease. The patients have been secluded in Europe and substantially in Africa for monitoring symptoms of the lethal virus. The outbreak has left thousands of casualties on the global scale. In the meanwhile, authorities...

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Why the global alarm about Ebola?

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Ebola Virus Disease is a serious, normally deadly ailment, with its death rate above 90%. The disease afflicts humans as well as animals like primates and a certain species of bats. In the current crisis that has enfolded West Africa; substantial cases have been traced to human-to-human transference. Infections are ascribable to direct handling via ruptured skin or mucous peripheral layer or other body fluids and secretions of contaminated persons....

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A Potted History of Ebola

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In 1976, Ebola (named after the Ebola River in Zaire) first emerged in Sudan and Zaire. The first outbreak of Ebola (Ebola-Sudan) infected over 284 people, with a mortality rate of 53%. A few months later, the second Ebola virus emerged from Yambuku, Zaire, Ebola-Zaire (EBOZ). EBOZ, with the highest mortality rate of any of the Ebola viruses (88%), infected 318 people. Despite the tremendous effort of experienced and dedicated researchers, Ebola’s...

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