The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
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 …
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority of them children, according to a joint WHO-UNICEF report released today. The report – “Achieving the malaria MDG target” – shows that the malaria MDG target to “have halted and begun to …
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an antiretroviral pill taken daily by people who are HIV negative, can only be imported for personal use or prescribed by small amount of Australian doctors. A study on HIV transmission rates shows PrEP is a very effective HIV-prevention tool, University of New South Wales researcher Dr …
The first annual HIV clinicians' conference started yesterday, with participants calling for strategies to curb new HIV infections. National Aids Control Council director Nduku Kilonzo said the disease burden is likely to rise as the country inches closer to Vision 2030. "We have about 100,000 new infections every year that …
The sex-booster herb Schisandraceae, widely used in traditional Chinese medicine for 2,000 years, has shown promise in treating HIV/AIDS, according to a 20-year-long study led by the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Native to North China, the Korean Peninsula and Russia, the plant has been …
A new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that mobile phone records can be used to predict the geographical spread and timing of dengue epidemics. More people around the world are becoming vulnerable to this deadly virus as climate change expands the range …
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 …
Syria's water network, heavily damaged by bombs and shelling, is at risk of collapse as its civil war drags on, increasing the threat of deadly typhoid or cholera outbreaks, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Millions of people in Aleppo and Damascus are cut off from …
Ilorin — The Belawu Ajoke Child and Women Care Foundation, an NGO, has empowered 100 people living with HIV/AIDs in Kwara State. The group in collaboration with the Kwara State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (KWASACA) at the weekend organised an enlightenment programme for them in Ilorin South and …
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 …
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 …
Global health experts have said that 25 per cent of survivors of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) may suffer blindness as thousands of West Africans who survived the Ebola virus infection are suffering from chronic conditions such as serious joint pain and eye inflammation that could lead to blindness. …
