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 …
–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. Making the disclosure Tuesday at a Ministry of Information press conference in Monrovia, Liberia’s Chief Medical Officer …
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 experts said on Monday. A specialist panel convened by Harvard's Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of …
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. Liberia has twice been declared free of the virus by the World Health …
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 environment minister Ségolène Royal told a London summit hosted by the Prince of Wales ahead of next month’s Cop21 conference. Addressing …
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 of the National Post Ebola Recovery strategies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to CPIFinancial.net. While the governments …
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 a connection between rainforest fragmentation and this zoonotic [passed between animals and humans] disease. This is hypothesised to occur …
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 post-infection. We characterized a mechanism of viral escape in one of the animals, after observation of two clusters of …
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. According to the local district Ebola response officials who declined to be named, "all people that were in quarantine …
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 headache, joint and muscle pain and tinnitus - the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. The …
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 in Africa. The ceremony took place at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office on Wilkinson Road in Freetown. Chairperson at …
Teens may change the world. A 16-year-old developed a simple way to detect the deadly Ebola virus, winning her the Google Science Fair. The winner, Olivia Hallisey from the United States, created a fast, cheap and stable test for the Ebola virus that also gives easy-to-read results in less than …
Liberia’s Principal Investigator of the Ebola Natural History Study, Dr. Mosoka Fallah, has disclosed that though Ebola has dropped to zero, it has left behind varieties of ailments amongst survivors.Dr. Fallah named complications being experienced by Ebola survivors as severe headaches, Tinnitus, joint and muscle pain, eye fatigue and blurry …
Another woman has tested positive for Ebola in a village in northern Sierra Leone already under quarantine after the death of a 67-year-old woman a week ago, President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Sunday. Koroma said the new case, confirmed on Saturday, had been in contact with the woman who …
Monrovia — The worst impacts of the Ebola crisis were felt by the poor, who experienced loss of income, difficulty accessing medical services and traumatic feelings of fear, says a report by International Alert. The report mentions that 42% of survey respondents said they had lost their jobs due to …
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Health officials in Sierra Leone on Sunday confirmed an Ebola death less than a week after the country’s last known patient was discharged from a hospital. Samples from the body of a 67-year-old woman who died recently in the Kambia district in the north of Sierra …
For the first time, UK physicians have demonstrated that antiviral-based therapies have the potential to protect humans from the deadly Ebola virus. The report, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, describes a case-series of eight British health-care workers who were evacuated to the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK …
It turns out that the Ebola virus may actually be able to survive in wastewater. Researchers have taken a closer look at Ebola-contaminated liquid waste and found that it could continue to survive over time. The historic outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa began in March 2014 and …
Although a few international health-care workers who have assisted in the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa have been medically evacuated for treatment of Ebola virus disease, more commonly they were evacuated after potential accidental exposure to Ebola virus. An urgent need exists for a consensus about the risk assessment …
DAKAR – Lingering health problems afflicting many of the roughly 13,000 Ebola survivors have galvanized global and local health officials to find out how widespread the ailments are, and how to remedy them. The World Health Organization calls it an emergency within an emergency. Many of the survivors have vision …
Sierra Leone has released its last known Ebola patient, according to the World Health Organization. 35-year-old Adama Sankoh was discharged from a treatment centre in the northern Bombali district on Monday morning. The country hasn't reported a new infection for more than two weeks, according the the National Ebola Response …
