So should average Americans be concerned about Ebola? If so, how bad could an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. potentially become? The following are 25 critical facts about this Ebola outbreak that every American needs to ...
Via Thompson Reuters Foundation, a July 31 report: Ebola disrupts Liberia birth records, poses trafficking threat-UN. West Africa"s Ebola epidemic has disrupted birth registrations in Liberia, leaving hundreds of thousands of ...
July 10, 2015 (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - Global Access in Action (GAiA), an initiative of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, is hosting a workshop today to explore lessons from the recent Ebola outbreak ...
There is no Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in Lagos, Governor Babatunde Fashola said yesterday. In a broadcast on the disease, Fashola said though the state had suffered painful loss of lives, the situation was not an ...
Read any article on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa these days and I guarantee you will come across references to Africans eating wild animals, people hiding infected family members from health workers, patients being ...
Thanks to Greg Folkers for sending the link to this report in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene: The West African Ebola outbreak: finishing the job, preparing for future. The abstract: As the West ...
ZMapp, the experimental treatment rushed to two Americans infected with Ebola in Africa, is grown in specially modified leaves of tobacco -- a plant better known for harming health than healing. ... She"s been given a government grant to study the antibody cocktail. Saphire says the other two antibodies probably prevent the virus from making more copies of itself. “We"re still trying to figure out exactly how it works,†she says. “But it seems to neutralize the virus.†1 | 2.
Although there had been 1,755 cases of Ebola prior to 2014, serious efforts to develop a vaccine for human use were not undertaken until the recent West African outbreak was at hand and the virus had spread to patients ...
Chid Liberty"s business was wiped out by the Ebola outbreak. he came back with the UNIFORM Kickstarter campaign to benefit Liberia"s schoolchildren.
The Ebola outbreak rages on. Economic costs of fighting the disease are mounting. There is no vaccine. Are we prepared if this becomes an epidemic?
The World Health Organization (WHO) does not have the capacity and internal culture to launch and manage an effective response to an epidemic such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to a scathing ...
Even though the world has known about the deadly Ebola virus, the diagnosis of the first Ebola patient on U.S. soil put Americans in a panic, fearing the virus that ironically few knew about even though it has been around for ...
The 6th meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa took place by ...
There are so many ways to become famous; unfortunately West Africa will mark humanbeing history by being the area on Earth which experienced the worst Ebola outbreak. Ebola disease was known since 1976, but in this ...
It was in October and November 2014 that employees refused to berth the tankers at the Pointe-a-Pierre port because they were afraid they might be infected by the Ebola virus which had claimed the lives of thousands of ...
Using Twitter and Google search trend data in the wake of the very limited U.S. Ebola outbreak of October 2014, a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Purdue University and Oregon State University has found ...
