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 …
The world's "disastrously inadequate response" to West Africa's Ebola outbreak means many people are dying needlessly, the head of the World Bank said on Monday, as Nigeria confirmed another case of the virus. In a newspaper editorial, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Western healthcare facilities would easily be …
Ebolavirus (EBOV) causes severe hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate of up to 90%. EBOV is a member of the order Mononegavirales and, like other viruses in this taxonomic group, contains a negative-sense single-stranded (ss) RNA. The EBOV ssRNA encodes seven distinct proteins. One of them, the nucleoprotein (NP), is …
The World Food Programme needs to raise $70 million to feed 1.3 million people at risk from shortages in Ebola-quarantined areas in West Africa, with the agency's resources already stretched by several major humanitarian crises, its regional director said. WFP's West Africa Director Denise Brown said the organisation was currently …
The effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is “a top priority emergency,” the World Health Organization said Sunday, as the government continued tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student who has tested positive for the deadly disease in the capital, Dakar. Senegal faces an “urgent need” for …
Seeks Report From State, Union Govt The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the state government and the Centre to detail precautions they are taking to prevent the possible spread of the Ebola virus. A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Girish Kulkarni heard a PIL by activist …
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now, the WHO said on Thursday . A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency also assumes that in many hard-hit areas, the actual number of …
GOMBE State Government has set N20 million aside for the management of any Ebola virus outbreak. Dr Kennedy Ishaya, the state’s Commissioner for Health, stated this at a news conference Gombe on Tuesday. He said the money would be used for managing any infected persons in case of outbreak in …
All schools in Nigeria have been ordered to remain shut until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The new academic year was due to start on Monday. But the education minister ordered the closures to allow staff to be trained on …
U.S. health officials will announce on Thursday that a human study of an Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) will begin within a couple of weeks and not later this year as the company estimated originally, according to people familiar with the plans. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious …
The worst ever Ebola outbreak is causing enormous damage to West African economies as foreign businessmen quit the region, the African Development Bank said, while a leading medical charity branded the international response "entirely inadequate." As transport companies suspend services, cutting off the region, governments and economists have warned that …
WHO issues a roadmap to guide and coordinate the international response to the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in west Africa. The roadmap aims to stop ongoing Ebola transmission worldwide within 6-9 months while rapidly managing the consequences of any further international spread. It also recognises the need to …
The African Development Bank will prepare an additional $150 million in funding for nations stricken by the Ebola virus as the World Health Organization plans to seek more resources and money to fight the outbreak. The worst-affected countries may see 1 percentage point to 1.5 percentage points shaved off economic …
Nigeria's health minister said on Tuesday authorities had "thus far contained" the Ebola outbreak that started last month, with only one out of 13 confirmed cases still being treated in isolation in the commercial capital Lagos. Onyebuchi Chukwu said of the other cases that five had died and the other …
The Democratic Republic of Congo said as many as 13 people have died of Ebola in a separate outbreak from the one raging in three West African nations. It is the sixth reported outbreak in that country since 1976. Laboratory tests in two cases were positive for Ebola in a …
More than $430 million will be needed to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control, according to a draft document laying out the World Health Organization’s battle strategy. The plan sets a goal of reversing the trend in new cases within two months, and stopping all transmission in …
At least 70 people have died in northern Democratic Republic of Congo from an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, denying that the illness was Ebola. A WHO report dated Thursday and seen by Reuters said that 592 people had contracted the disease, of whom …
Khartoum – Sudan is free of the Ebola virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced. One case was reported at Khartoum Airport coming from Sierra Leon, but following lab tests it was proven that the patient was free of Ebola, WHO representative in Sudan confirmed. A committee was set-up …
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president’s orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa. Hundreds of slum residents clashed with the gunmen, furious …
Monkeys sickened by Marburg virus, an Ebola relative that kills in the same way and is equally as fatal, survived the disease after being treated with an experimental drug developed by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (TKMR) The results, published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, are the first to show …
