Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
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, vaccine hesitancy, air pollution and climate change. The health organisation has warned that if action is …
GENEVA: The World Health Organization has a message for those trying to understand how the latest Ebola outbreak was contained so quickly: don't give the new vaccine all the credit. Compared to the 2013-2015 West African outbreak, which exploded into an epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people, the response …
Researchers have found that protein found in human semen significantly increases Ebola virus infection, explaining how sexual transmission has led to the virus' resurgence. Although Ebola is transmitted primarily through direct contact with blood and other body fluids from infected people, follow-up studies from the 2014 epidemic found that men …
The global epidemiological trends of many viral diseases clearly indicate resurgence of some hitherto quiescent yet virulent pathogens and emergence of new strains that pose a challenge to medical science. The Nipah outbreak with many sero-positive cases and 13 fatalities so far in two districts of Kerala — Kozhikode and …
In a double move hailed as a milestone for public health, African leaders have launched an agency to tackle global threats such as Ebola and pledged to make immunisation available throughout the continent by 2020. Under the twin commitments, African heads of state will establish regional health centres around the …
The ongoing West African Ebola epidemic began in December 2013 in Guinea, probably from a single zoonotic introduction. As a result of ineffective initial control efforts, an Ebola outbreak of unprecedented scale emerged. As of 4 May 2015, it had resulted in more than 19,000 probable and confirmed Ebola cases, …
Evidence for minimally symptomatic Ebola virus (EBOV) infection is limited. During the 2013–16 outbreak in West Africa, it was not considered epidemiologically relevant to published models or projections of intervention effects. In order to improve our understanding of the transmission dynamics of EBOV in humans, we investigated the occurrence of …
The UN General Assembly will meet on September 13. For the fourth time in its history, the heads of states gathered for the UN General Assembly meeting will discuss a burning global health issue that needs to be addressed on a war footing. The rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR), seen in …
The first Phase-1 human clinical trial of a vaccine for the Zika virus is set to begin in the coming weeks, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) green-lighting it. The DNA vaccine (GLS-5700) developed by the U.S-based Inovio Pharmaceuticals and GeneOne Life Science, South Korea, has already been …
We assess how presymptomatic infection affects predictability of infectious disease epidemics. We focus on whether or not a major outbreak (i.e. an epidemic that will go on to infect a large number of individuals) can be predicted reliably soon after initial cases of disease have appeared within a population. For …
Scientists have warned that humans should brace for the emergence of a new virus that could be deadlier than Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or Zika. The scientists in a study published on March 14, 2016, edition of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of …
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a highly lethal condition for which no specific treatment has proven efficacy. In September 2014, while the Ebola outbreak was at its peak, the World Health Organization released a short list of drugs suitable for EVD research. Favipiravir, an antiviral developed for the treatment of …
Rapid sequencing of RNA/DNA from pathogen samples obtained during disease outbreaks provides critical scientific and public health information. However, challenges exist for exporting samples to laboratories or establishing conventional sequencers in remote outbreak regions. We successfully used a novel, pocket-sized nanopore sequencer at a field diagnostic laboratory in Liberia during …
The World Health Organisation declared an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever on Thursday after no new cases emerged in Liberia, though health officials warn that it will be several more months before the world is considered free of the disease that claimed more than 11,300 lives over two …
Since October 2014 the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been diminishing and efforts have shifted from emergency response to prevention and mitigation of future outbreaks. Researchers from the Liberian Ministry of Health and the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modelling and Analysis evaluated 3532 Ebola cases reported in 2014 …
The second component of the Ebola Community Action Platform Project or ECAP-2 was launched in Tubmanville, Neekreen Administrative District of Grand Bassa County on Saturday, 12 December. A release says the eight months program, funded by the USAID/OFDA under the management of Mercy Corps, is being implemented in one thousand …
The first full-scale genomic analysis of the Ebola virus has been performed. Researchers analysed the make-up of the virus from cases in Liberia, to understand how Ebola moved between neighbouring countries, and how it adapted within the human host. The study, published in Cell Host And Microbe, can be used …
Government officials in West African countries affected by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak allegedly mismanaged and dubiously appropriated funds for relief from the epidemic, a recent report has revealed. Titled Ebola Fund Watch — Tracking Funds For Ebola Crisis in West Africa Regional Report, the study was a qualitative …
The current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) centered in West Africa is the largest in history, with nearly ten times more individuals contracting the disease than all previous outbreaks combined. The details of human-to-human and zoonotic ebolavirus transmission have justifiably received the largest share of research attention, and much …
The Ambassador of Japan based in Senegal, Takashi KITAHARA, will on the 27 November 2015 attend in Banjul a ceremony for two projects granted by the government of Japan to fight against the Ebola epidemic. These are "the project for the reinforcement of prevention and control of febrile illnesses," and …
