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Ebola Alert

Today, WHO declares the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time. Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified quickly before they can spread to other people

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Legendary actor Omar Sharif 'has Alzheimer's disease

Omar Sharif

Hollywood actor Omar Sharif is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and gets confused when remembering some of the biggest films of his career, his son has claimed.

Tarek El-Sharif, the only child of the star's marriage to ex-wife Faten Hamama, said his 83-year-old father mixes up the names of his best-known films - Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia - and often forgets where they were filmed.

Mr El-Sharif also revealed that while his Egyptian-born father knows he is a famous actor, he confuses fans who ask him for autographs for people he used to know.

with son, Tarek

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Brain-reading implant controls arm

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A man has been able to control a robotic limb with a mind-reading chip implanted in his brain.

It allowed Erik Sorto, from California, to sip a drink unaided for the first time in 10 years.

The details, published in Science, reveal how complex bursts of electrical signals in his brain could be interpreted into commands for the arm.

Experts said the results made brain-controlled robotics closer to being a reality.

Mr Sorto was shot at the age of 21. The damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed from the neck down.

Nigerian Ebola volunteers head home

Nigerian Ebola volunteers (in Liberia and Sierre Leone) pictured on their way home. About 250 of them arrived Nigeria last night on a chartered Ethiopian Airline..

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99 Ebola cases in past week, nearly two-thirds in Sierra Leone: WHO

GENEVA (Reuters) - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone reported 99 new confirmed Ebola cases in the week to Feb. 22, down from 128 the previous week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Sierra Leone accounted for the bulk of the latest infections with 63, signalling a halt to a steep decline recorded from December through January, followed by Guinea with 35 and Liberia just a single case, the U.N. agency said in its weekly report.

"Cases continue to arise from unknown chains of transmission," the WHO said. Sixteen of the new cases were identified in Guinea and Sierra Leone after post-mortem testing of people who died in the community "indicating that a significant number of individuals are still either unable or reluctant to seek treatment."

In all, more than 23,500 cases have been reported in the three West African countries, with more than 9,500 deaths, since the world's worst outbreak began in December 2013.