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World Bank Creates Pandemic Insurance Plan
The World Bank launched on Saturday a $500 million, fast-disbursing insurance fund to combat virulent disease outbreaks in poor countries, creating the world’s first insurance market for pandemic risk. “The recent Ebola crisis in West Africa was a tragedy...Caption:
Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey was working at a Save the Children specialist ebola hospital in Sierra Leone in November 2014. (EPA/HO)
British nurse with Ebola in critical condition: hospital
London, Reuters—A British nurse being treated for Ebola in London is in a critical condition after deteriorating over the last two days, her hospital said on Saturday. The Royal Free Hospital has been treating Pauline Cafferkey, 39, with blood plasma from an Ebola...Caption:
US House Speaker John Boehner walks to his office after passage of a spending bill on the House floor at the US Capitol in Washington, on December 11, 2014. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
US House narrowly passes spending bill, averts government shutdown
Washington, Reuters—The US House of Representatives averted a government shutdown on Thursday, narrowly passing a 1.1 trillion US dollar spending bill despite strenuous Democratic objections to controversial financial provisions. The vote followed a long day of drama...Caption:
The Clinical Center Building where an experimental Ebola vaccine is being trialed in Bethesda, US. (EPA/Michael Reynolds)