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ASSOCIATED PRESS                                   NOV. 7, 2014

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N.'s Ebola chief said an extraordinary global response over the past month has made him hopeful the outbreak could end in 2015, though he cautioned that the fight to contain the disease is not even a quarter done.

"Until the last case of Ebola is under treatment, we have to stay on full alert," Dr. David Nabarro said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's still bad."

Nabarro said a month ago that the number of Ebola cases was probably doubling every three-to-four weeks. He warned then that without a mass global mobilization, "the world will have to live with the Ebola virus forever" and that the response needed to be 20 times greater.

But in the past four weeks, the rate of Ebola infections seems to be slowing in some parts of West Africa, Nabarro said in the interview. In other hotspots, he said, it appears to be expanding the way it was a month ago.

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French.news.cn - November 5, 2014

Conakry - (Xinhua) - Four new outbreaks of the Ebola epidemic were detected in Macenta Prefecture, located in the southeast of Guinea along the border with Liberia, did we learned on Wednesday from official sources. On Tuesday, the prefectural coordination response against Ebola has identified 18 patients at the transit improved center of Macenta.

To date, the prefecture of Macenta has 888 contacts who are monitored by the health services.

Macenta has recorded the largest number of patients and deaths associated with the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the cumulative number reached 557 cases with 339 deaths, according to the latest figures provided by the competent authorities.

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CONAKRY, 5 novembre (Xinhua) -- Quatre nouveaux foyers de l'épidémie d'Ebola ont été détectés dans la préfecture de Macenta, située dans le sud-est de la Guinéee, le long de la frontière avec le Liberia, a-t-on appris mercredi de sources officielles. Mardi, la coordination préfectorale de riposte contre Ebola a recensé 18 malades au centre de transit amélioré de Macenta.

By Todd Ackerman                                                                           Nov. 5, 2014

... researchers at the University of Texas-Austin have developed a nasal spray vaccine that has protected monkeys against the deadly Ebola virus even a year after immunization.

The vaccine, a genetically engineered cold virus containing a tiny portion of Ebola DNA, saved 100 percent of monkeys who got a single spray through the nose in a new UT study. Injecting the vaccine only saved the lives of about 50 percent.

"The main advantage is the long-lasting protection after a single inhaled dose," Maria Croyle, a  professor of pharmaceutics and the study's principal investigator, said in a statement. "This is important since the longevity of other vaccines for Ebola (hasn't been) fully evaluated....