Before returning home to pursue her PhD in sociology at UC San Francisco, Rashon Lane had one last mission across the globe: go to Africa to help understand the Ebola epidemic. Lane, who works for the U.S. Centers for ...
Many healthcare staff bravely soldiered on during the outbreak, but with many of them recruited to work in the Ebola response, and few patients seeking care, death and suffering from other causes have inevitably increased ...
When Rachel went to Liberia last year, she watched as Ebola spread across the country. Back in the UK, she knew she had to do something to help all the friends she had made there. While student Rachel Ayrton was in ...
The fight against the Ebola epidemic is increasingly turning into an international emergency. The number of victims is growing rapidly in the three most severely affected countries in West Africa: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra ...
A grassroots campaign growing in the United States is aiming to eradicate the stigmatization that people of West African descent are increasingly seeing amidst the most deadly Ebola virus outbreak ever. TrendsEbola ...
Durham, NC - Duke University will hold a weeklong series of public events on the continuing Ebola epidemic in West Africa Sept. 22-26. The events include conversations, lectures, a live videoconference from Nigeria and a ...
October 22, 2014 (New York) - JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced up to $600,000 in donations from its foundation and employees to help curtail the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Grants totaling $300,000 from the ...
Sierra Leone quarantines 700 after new Ebola death Health authorities in Sierra Leone said they had quarantined almost 700 people as they battled to contain a new outbreak of Ebola which killed a 16-year-old girl.
The virus lives naturally in animals, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. The first two recorded outbreak were in 1976. The Ebola virus (EBOV) is one of five members of the Ebolavirus genus, four of which cause lethal hemorrhagic ...
Although the sample includes only a tiny fraction of the roughly 9,000 cases who have survived the Ebola outbreak in that country, the study does provide some insights into the issues survivors are facing and reaffirm what has ...
Several United States hospitals are seeking participants to enroll in clinical trial testing for the Ebola virus vaccine. The Merck-sponsored study will explore the Ebola vaccine"s ability to safely generate Ebola antibodies that ...
