Timeline: ebola

	2015-08-25 02:25:55	sentences	site	Adama Sankoh, 35, centre, who contracted Ebola after her son died from the disease, is discharged on Monday. The country has not recorded a new case since the beginning of August, but the WHO won't declare it Ebola-free until six weeks after the last patient is discharged or buried. Even then, the president cautioned the crowd Monday that Sierra Leone won't be safe until Ebola has been eradicated from the region.
	2015-08-25 02:25:55	sentences	site	Sierra Leone's last known Ebola patient is discharged singing and dancing
	2015-08-24 18:46:41	sentences	site	"Although my child died of Ebola I am very happy that I have survived today," she said upon leaving the Ebola treatment center in Mateneh village on the outskirts of Makeni, the president's hometown.
	2015-08-24 13:43:45	sentences	site	President Ernest Bai Koroma presented a certificate of discharge to Adama Sankoh, 40, who contracted Ebola after her son died from the disease late last month.
	2015-08-24 13:10:00	sentences	site	"The Ebola fight is not yet over -- go and tell members of your community that," the president said when presenting the certificate to the woman. Sankoh, whose 23-year-old son contracted Ebola in the capital of Freetown before travelling to his home village, thanked everyone who provided her care during her illness. But first Sierra Leone must go 42 days -- equal to two incubation periods of 21 days -- without another Ebola case in order for the World Health Organization to make such a declaration.
	2015-08-23 20:40:08	sentences	site	The medical community is negotiating uncharted waters as it tries to measure the scale of this problem that comes on the tail end of the biggest Ebola outbreak in history.
	2015-08-23 20:34:18	sentences	site	30, 2014 file photo, a woman being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center is sprayed with disinfectant in Monrovia, Liberia.
	2015-08-23 15:23:56	sentences	site	Many Ebola survivors have lingering health problems, alarming medical professionals
	2015-08-23 13:55:35	sentences	site	After he recovered, he was discharged from an Ebola treatment unit in September.
	2015-08-23 13:48:05	sentences	site	DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Lingering health problems afflicting many of the roughly 13,000 Ebola survivors have galvanized global and local health officials to find out how widespread the ailments are, and how to remedy them. Lab technician Mohamed SK Sesay was working at a hospital in Kenema, a town in eastern Sierra Leone, testing blood samples for Ebola when he fell sick with the virus.
	2015-08-23 13:48:05	sentences	site	With many Ebola survivors ailing, doctors evaluate situation "If we can find out this kind of information, hopefully we can help other Ebola survivors in the future," Dr. Zan Yeong, an eye specialist involved in a study of health problems in survivors in Liberia, told The Associated Press. Around half those who received post-recovery check-ups have joint pain, said Dr. Daniel Bausch, an Ebola expert and consultant for WHO.
	2015-08-23 13:30:00	sentences	site	Only about 40 per cent of those infected have survived Ebola, according to WHO estimates. "It's too early ... to know what the direct effect or link is to Ebola, if at all," Bausch said.
	2015-08-23 13:25:15	sentences	site	His iris temporarily changed color from blue to green; doctors found his eye contained the Ebola virus. Nancy Writebol, who last year became the second American infected with Ebola, said she suffers joint pain, mostly in her knees. Dr. Anders Nordstrom, the WHO representative for Sierra Leone, said: "It is increasingly clear that emerging from an ETU (Ebola treatment unit) is just the beginning."
	2015-08-21 17:55:59	sentences	site	The head of crime in the Sierra Leone Police, Morie Lengor, said the Ebola outbreak had reduced the number of police officers available to fight crime.
	2015-08-19 09:57:54	sentences	site	In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, people celebrate as they are released from Ebola quarantine by Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, in the village of Massessehbeh on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone. MASSESSEHBEH, Sierra Leone (AP) - It had been five months since an Ebola death when Musa Kamara traveled to his hometown for festivities to mark the end of Ramadan.
	2015-08-19 09:35:00	sentences	site	Sierra Leone awaits countdown to Ebola-free declaration Officials desperately hope they can soon announce the start of the countdown to an Ebola-free declaration from WHO nearly 15 months after the first patient tested positive in Sierra Leone. When Kamara returned to his home village, the family did not suspect Ebola.
	2015-08-14 14:06:09	sentences	site	Moments after the first person treated with ZMapp started receiving the experimental Ebola drug he could feel effects which suggested it was working. A study of another drug, TKM-Ebola, was stopped when its Data and Safety Monitoring Board concluded there was no hope giving it to more people would show it was effective. Lane says he had anticipated that an answer would be found when the trial had enrolled somewhere between 40 and 100 Ebola patients. They argue ZMapp cannot save Ebola patients who are too far along in the disease, so enrolling them in the study makes it harder to see if and how well the drug works. Dr. Clifford Lane, charged with overseeing Ebola clinical trials for the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledges enrolling enough cases to complete the trial is a challenge at this point.
	2015-08-13 16:50:04	sentences	site	UN official: Ebola epidemic could be defeated by end of 2015
	2015-08-13 15:56:00	sentences	site	The Ebola epidemic in West Africa can be defeated by the end of the year if the number of new cases drops to zero and stays at zero, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. Fears that the Ebola virus could be permanently established in humans in the region have also been defeated, which is also "very good news," she said. She predicted that there would be further setbacks like the flare-up of Ebola at the end of June in Liberia, nearly two months after the country was declared Ebola-free.
	2015-08-10 12:59:35	sentences	site	China pledges continued support for Ebola-hit Africa nations MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - China's foreign minister has pledged continued support to the three West African countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 11,200 people. China was one of the first to fly in badly needed medical gear when Ebola spread last year.
	2015-08-06 15:53:14	sentences	site	Sierra Leone has only four recorded cases of Ebola, the West African nation's head of Ebola said Thursday, adding that he is hopeful the countdown to zero can soon begin. Authorities last week quarantined 500 people after a man died from Ebola.
	2015-08-05 18:44:00	sentences	site	The path to zero cases, however, remains a challenge as the West African nations that have seen most of the more than 11,200 deaths from Ebola -- Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia -- head into rainy season. WHO reported two confirmed cases of Ebola --one in Guinea and one in Sierra Leone-- in the week ending Aug. 2.
	2015-08-05 18:17:08	sentences	site	New Ebola cases in single digits another week, says WHO DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - New Ebola cases were in the single digits another week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, showing that contact tracing efforts are yielding results. This week, Sierra Leone has reported two new cases, both relatives of a man who died from Ebola in Tonkolili, an area that hadn't seen the deadly virus in months.
	2015-08-05 13:54:09	sentences	site	Officials: Alabama home quarantined over possible Ebola case Officials say a quarantine is in place at a Birmingham home because of a possible Ebola case. Khan says the patient recently traveled to a country with Ebola cases, but he didn't identify the country or name the patient. Khan says the patient didn't have direct contact with anyone known to have Ebola and is considered "low risk" for the disease.
	2015-08-03 19:07:18	sentences	site	The concerns come as the director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, is in Sierra Leone to observe the impact of the Ebola outbreak and to assess steps needed to get the country to zero cases.
	2015-08-03 18:25:24	sentences	site	CDC head says Sierra Leone in strong place with Ebola The victim contracted the disease in the capital, traveled to his home village, and was treated for a fever at the local hospital but authorities didn't call the Ebola emergency number.
	2015-08-03 18:25:24	sentences	site	Two new cases of Ebola surfaced in Sierra Leone's Northern Tonkolili District after a man died last week. The district had not had a single case of Ebola in five months.