Drug resistance among top threats: WHO
NEW DELHI: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been identified as one of the 10 threats to global health in 2019 by World Health Organisation (WHO). The other threats on this list include HIV, Ebola, dengue,
Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever)
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Liberian health ministry confirms death of Ebola victim
–Liberia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of the 15 year-old who tested positive of the Ebola virus on Thursday in the Du-Port Road community in the northern Monrovia suburb of Paynesville.
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Global health experts accuse WHO of 'egregious failure' on Ebola
The World Health Organization's failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa's Ebola outbreak was an "egregious failure" which added to the enormous suffering and death toll, global health
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Ebola resurfaces in Liberia with 3 new cases
In what could be a set-back for the country, three new cases of Ebola have been reported more than two months after Liberia was declared free of the virus. Around 153 people have been placed under surveillance.
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Deforestation 'may have started west Africa's Ebola outbreak'
Environment ministers from all over the world attend one-day conference on deforestation and climate change in London Deforestation may have triggered the recent Ebola outbreak in west Africa, France’s
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Liberia: AfDB Approves U.S.$33.3 Million Ebola Recovery Fund
The African Development Bank Group's (AfDB) Board of Executive Directors approved a US$33.3 million grant to set up a Post Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) intended to support the implementation
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The environmental origins of Ebola must be tackled
A new study explores the environmental factors that give rise to outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Jointly undertaken by the Environmental Foundation for Africa and the ERM Foundation, it posits
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Emergence of Ebola virus escape variants in infected nonhuman primates treated with the MB-003 antibody cocktail
<p>MB-003, a plant-derived monoclonal antibody cocktail used effectively in treatment of Ebola virus infection in non-human primates, was unable to protect two of six animals when initiated 1 or 2 days
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Sierra Leone starts another 42-day Ebola countdown
Sierra Leone on Sunday began another 42-day Ebola countdown after the last two Ebola patients were discharged from the Mathene Treatment Centre in the northern city of Makeni, local officials said.
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Kenya: Ebola Causes Impotency and Blurry Vision- Report
A study of the Ebola Natural History in Liberia has revealed that the disease's side effects include impotency, protracted period of erection, eye fatigue and blurry vision. Other effects include severe
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Sierra Leone: EFA Launches Report On EVD & Forest Fragmentation
The Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA), with technical help from the Environmental Resource Management (ERM) Foundation, yesterday launched a report on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and forest fragmentation