Infectious Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

Worst Ebola outbreak on record tests global response

International agencies and governments are fighting to contain the world's worst Ebola epidemic since the disease was identified in 1976. The virus, which causes fever and bleeding, has killed at least 3,439 people. Here is a timeline of the outbreak: March 22: Guinea confirms a previously unidentified hemorrhagic fever, which …

Outbreak of Ebola-like Marburg fever kills man in Uganda

A man has died in Uganda's capital after an outbreak of Marburg, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, authorities said on Sunday, adding that a total of 80 people who came into contact with him were quarantined. Marburg starts with a severe headache followed by haemorrhaging and leads …

Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day

Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday. The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total …

High risk Ebola could reach France and UK by end-October, scientists calculate

Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that date. Those numbers are based on air traffic remaining at full capacity. …

Biogeography of human infectious diseases: A global historical analysis

Human pathogen richness and prevalence vary widely across the globe, yet we know little about whether global patterns found in other taxa also predict diversity in this important group of organisms. This study (a) assesses the relative importance of temperature, precipitation, habitat diversity, and population density on the global distributions …

China provides 5 mln yuan to help Ghana stem Ebola

ACCRA - China on Monday provided Ghana with 5 million yuan (833,000 U.S. dollars) worth of equipment and medical supplies to help the country battle Ebola outbreak which has claimed over 3,000 lives in African countries. Sun Baohong, the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, urged the international community to stand together …

European Agency Collects Data on Experimental Ebola Treatments

LONDON - The European Medicines Agency said on Friday it had started collecting data from pharmaceutical companies trialling experimental medicines to treat Ebola in a bid to speed up the process to find an approved cure for the virus. "I have therefore asked the EMA Committee for Medicinal Products for …

Ebola death toll passes 3,000: WHO

The death toll in the world’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,000, with the virus killing almost half of the more than 6,500 people it has infected, according to World Health Organization figures released Saturday. In its latest update, the UN health agency said a total of 6,574 …

U.S. Forecasts more than 500,000 Ebola Cases in W. Africa

Global experts issued stark new warnings of the scale of West Africa's Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, with the U.S. government estimating between 550,000 and 1.4 million people might be infected in the region by January. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its projection was based on …

Ebola death rates 70% - WHO study

New figures suggest 70% of those infected with Ebola in West Africa have died, higher than previously reported, says the World Health Organization. Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November if efforts to tackle the outbreak are not stepped up, the UN agency has warned. In the worst case …

Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa

Vaccine trials under way as experts fear disease could become endemic in worst-hit areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Experimental drugs are to be fast-tracked into west Africa so that they can be tested and, if they work, save lives in the Ebola epidemic, which, experts say, is spiralling …

Ebola kills 2,811, outbreak 'contained' in Senegal, Nigeria — WHO

The deadliest Ebola epidemic ever has now killed 2,811 in west Africa, the World Health Organisation said yesterday, adding though that in Senegal and Nigeria the outbreak had been basically contained. The UN health agency, which also published the results of the latest meeting of its Ebola emergency committee, said …

U.S. forecasts more than 500,000 Ebola cases in West Africa

Global experts issued stark new warnings of the scale of West Africa's Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, with the U.S. government estimating between 550,000 and 1.4 million people might be infected in the region by January. The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its projection was based on …

World Bank Says Ebola’s Spread May Have Catastrophic Cost

The World Bank warned that the economic costs of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will escalate to “catastrophic” proportions if the virus spreads, while Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama criticized the international response to the disease. “If other countries in the vicinity in the subregion of West Africa fail …

Sierra Leone records 130 new Ebola cases during three-day lockdown

Sierra Leone recorded 130 new cases of the Ebola virus during a three-day lockdown and it is waiting for test results on a further 39 suspected cases, Stephen Gaojia, head of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, said on Monday. The country had ordered its six million citizens to stay indoors …

Ebola toll passes 2,800 but 'contained' in Senegal, Nigeria - WHO

An outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has been largely contained in Senegal and Nigeria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, but the disease is still spreading elsewhere and has now killed over 2,811 people in the region. Senegal and Nigeria, the most recent of five nations to …

UN: Nearly $1 billion needed now to stop Ebola

The number of Ebola cases could start doubling every three weeks in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning that the outbreak will cost nearly $1 billion to contain so it does not turn into a "human catastrophe." Even as President Obama is ordering the deployment of 3,000 …

Ebola cases may be kept within tens of thousands, WHO says

The unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa requires a $1 billion (£617.2 million) response to keep its spread within the "tens of thousands" of cases, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. The virus has killed 2,461 people, half of the 4,985 infected by the virus, and the toll has doubled …

Citing security threat, Obama expands U.S. role in fighting Ebola

President Barack Obama on Tuesday called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region. "The reality is that this epidemic is going to get …

Ebola vaccine trial begins

A trial of an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus is to begin in Oxford. The first of 60 healthy volunteers will be injected with the vaccine. It contains only a small portion of genetic material from the virus, so it cannot cause the disease. Normally it would take years …

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