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Russian Scientists Started Testing 4 Ebola Vaccines on Primates

Written on March 19, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

Four Ebola virus vaccines developed by Russian scientists are ready and being tested on primates. “All the four vaccines are ready. Tests on primates have already begun,” said Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova on Tuesday. Anna Popova, head of Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said that the agency has began testing a vaccine for the Ebola virus. Popova was cited as saying that successful testing of the vaccine will enable...

WHO Taps UAB Graduate to Evaluate Global Ebola Response

Written on March 18, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate who led successful Ebola containment efforts in Nigeria has now been tapped to serve as an international expert on the disease. Faisal Shuaib, M.D., Dr.P.H., head of the National Ebola Emergency Operations Center in Nigeria and a 2010 graduate of the UAB School of Public Health’s Dr.P.H. in International Health program, has been appointed to a six-person independent expert committee to evaluate the...

US Healthcare Worker With Ebola in Serious Condition at NIH

Written on March 14, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, USA News.

The NIH said the health-care worker was admitted at 4:44 a.m. Friday to its high-containment facility on its Bethesda, Md., campus, after being evacuated to the U.S. by chartered jet. Physicians have evaluated the patient with Ebola virus disease and have determined that the patient’s condition is serious. No additional details about the patient are being shared at this time. The patient has been admitted to the NIH Clinical Center’s Special Clinical...

British Military Healthcare Worker Has Tested Positive for Ebola

Written on March 11, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

A UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, according to officials. The unidentified woman was working at the Ebola Treatment Center in Kerry Town, which was built with Government funding and is managed by Save the Children. She is currently being treated at the same location according to a Ministry of Defense spokesperson. Authorities are trying to establish how she was exposed to the virus and tracing individuals...

New Ebola Vaccine Trials Will Be Tested in Guinea by WHO

Written on March 6, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will begin conducting Ebola vaccination trials in Guinea this week, which if found effective, could be the “game-changer to finally end the epidemic” that has affected nearly 24,000 people, mostly in West Africa. “We have worked hard to reach this point,” WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, said in Geneva. “There has been massive mobilization on the part of the affected countries...

North Korea lifts Ebola caused travel ban

Written on March 3, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Government News, Travel, World News.

North Korea has lifted severe restrictions on foreign travel it imposed last year to keep the Ebola virus from crossing its borders, although North Korea is thousands of miles from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The already isolated country virtually closed its borders to foreigners last October, halting all non-essential visas and requiring those few foreigners allowed in to undergo three weeks of quarantine. The rules applied to diplomats,...

Fujifilm’s Flu Drug Turned Ebola Drug Avigan Proven Effective

Written on March 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

Fujifilm Holdings Corp.’s drug Avigan, which has shown signs of efficacy against the Ebola virus, has drawn interest from about 20 countries and the company stands ready for large orders, its chief executive said. “We can provide as much as we are asked for,” said Shigetaka Komori in an interview Friday. The company has enough of the drug’s basic ingredient on hand to manufacture pills for 300,000 people and will ramp up production if necessary,...

Free of Ebola, but Nina Pham Files Lawsuit Against Texas Health

Written on March 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, USA News.

The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola. “I wanted to believe that they would have my back and...

Ebola Vaccine: Human Antibodies Target Marburg & Ebola Viruses

Written on February 26, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

One step closer to Ebola vaccine: Researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The Scripps Research Institute for the first time have shown how human antibodies can neutralize the Marburg virus, a close cousin to Ebola. Their findings, published this week in two papers in the journal Cell, should speed development of the first effective treatment and vaccine against these often lethal viruses, said...

Ebola Orphanage Worker Dies in Sierra Leone

Written on February 25, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

A Sierra Leonean who worked with children orphaned by Ebola has died of the disease himself. Augustine Baker had been admitted to an Ebola treatment centre after becoming ill last week. The orphanage where he worked is run by a UK charity in Sierra Leone and was quarantined after Baker was diagnosed with the deadly ebola virus. He was said to be in stable condition when admitted to a local treatment centre after becoming ill last week. A report...