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 …
Washington D. C. — Public health experts can identify nations that are vulnerable to the occurrence and impact of future outbreaks of Ebola or other emergencies by using a screening tool that evaluates a nation's strengths across a wide range of measures such as political strength and health care capabilities, …
London — Almost 30 countries around the world are "highly vulnerable" to an Ebola-style epidemic, with Somalia, Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Haiti most at risk, a major charity said on Tuesday. An increasingly mobile global population makes deadly outbreaks more likely, with the emergence of two new diseases a year …
The money was sent to ActionAid International on behalf of the board of directors, staff and management of ActionAid International The Gambia. The donation, which included personal commitment of board members and staff, is in response to an appeal by the chief executive officer of ActionAid International, Adriano Campolina, to …
The Japanese company behind an experimental Ebola treatment says it offers new hope for thousands of people infected with the deadly virus in West Africa, but acknowledged it is “not a miracle drug.” In their first comments to the media since the release of early clinical trials last week, executives …
The transmission of Ebola in West Africa is on the decline, the World Health Organization has announced. Sierra Leone, however, warns that unsafe burial practices threaten to turn that trend around again. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa …
Scientists are warning of a real risk that the Ebola virus disease could become endemic in west Africa if efforts to end the epidemic slacken as the number of cases falls. All previous outbreaks of Ebola were stamped out within months and the virus disappeared from the human population each …
Initial results of a clinical trial of the experimental drug favipiravir suggest that it can reduce mortality among patients with low levels of the Ebola virus in their blood, but is ineffective for patients with high viral loads who are very sick with the disease The ongoing clinical trial, led …
DAKAR – A Japanese anti-Ebola drug being tested in Guinea should be made available across West Africa after initial trials showed it halved mortality rates in some patients, the medical charity administering it has said. Favipiravir, developed by a subsidiary of Japan’s Fujifilm to treat flu, has been used on …
As India deals with the international outbreak of swine flu, there is another silent war that is raging on to contain Ebola. When he came back from Liberia in November last year, little did the man hailing from Rajasthan know that the wait to meet his family would be far …
During the seven days leading up to February 1, 124 new cases were confirmed across three west African countries The weekly number of new Ebola cases registered across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone rose in the last week of January, marking the first hike in 2015, the World Health Organisation …
MONROVIA – Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly fever and prevent future outbreaks. The epidemic has killed more than 8,900 people in West Africa since it began more than a …
Almost 20 000 cases of Ebola virus disease have been reported in west Africa. Estimates of the reproductive ratio of the outbreak suggest that about half of infectious contacts need to be prevented to control the epidemic. The international response in the affected regions has focused mainly on establishing infrastructure …
WHO also added that the response to the Ebola epidemic has now moved to a second phase The number of new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the three worst-affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has fallen to the lowest level since late June, the World Health …
Monrovia — A new report by the Incident Management Team on Ebola has indicated that Grand Cape Mount County will soon join 13 other counties to be declared Ebola free. Liberia is striving hard to get to zero cases as the reopening of schools in the country is nearing. Speaking …
Scientists tracking the Ebola outbreak in Guinea say the virus has mutated. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in France, which first identified the outbreak last March, are investigating whether it could have become more contagious. More than 22,000 people have been infected with Ebola and 8,795 have died in Guinea, …
An epidemic of Ebola virus disease of unprecedented size continues in parts of west Africa. For the first time, large urban centres such as Conakry, the capital of Guinea, are affected. We did an observational study of patients with Ebola virus disease in three regions of Guinea, including Conakry, aiming …
The Ebola epidemic seems to have reached a turning point, as cases fall in all three of the worst-hit countries of west Africa, according to World Health Organisation figures. Last week there were fewer than 150 cases reported, with Sierra Leone accounting for most of them – 117 of the …
An apparent link has been established between human population density and vegetation cover and the spread of the Ebola virus from animal hosts to humans. Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center found a higher risk of animal to human transmission in areas with high human density and low vegetation. "These …
