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Ebola Care Centers in Liberia nearly empty as Outbreak fades

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country’s success in halting new infections. “We have five confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia as of today,” said Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia’s Ebola taskforce. “It means that we are going down to zero,...

Why you should worry less about Ebola and more about Measles

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, USA News, World News.

Officials stressed the Ebola epidemic in Africa was going to be contained. Then it mushroomed to the worst Ebola outbreak in history and jumped an ocean, as a Liberian man named Thomas E. Duncan brought the disease to Texas. It’s clear the United States has already messed up several times in the fight against Ebola. There will probably be blunders in coming weeks, too. Of course, a mass Ebola outbreak in the United States never materialized. But...

Ebola Deaths Parallel with Devastating Medieval Plague

Written on January 22, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

As Ebola Deaths Rise, Researcher Sees Parallels with Devastating Medieval Plague If you think that Ebola is bad – and it is – the current outbreak in West Africa is small compared with another deadly epidemic that engulfed much of the globe centuries ago. It is realistic to estimate that during the Middle Ages, plague – also known as the Black Death – wiped out 40 to 60 percent of the population in large areas of Europe, Africa and Asia, according...

Measles Outbreak: Unvaccinated Visitors Told to Avoid Disneyland

Written on January 22, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, Travel, USA News.

Forty-nine of the 66 confirmed cases of measles have been traced back to the resort. There’s an outbreak of measles linked to the theme park, and one of California’s top public health officials recommended that children under 12 months and people who’ve never had a measles vaccination stay away from the park while the disease event continues. Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director of the state’s Center for Infectious Diseases,...

Disneyland Measles Outbreak Continues to Spread

Written on January 21, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, USA News.

The measles outbreak is growing with 59 confirmed cases in California—18 more than last week—and some 42 of those illnesses have struck people who were exposed at Disneyland in December, California health officials said Wednesday. State health departments in California, Colorado, Utah and Washington and have confirmed cases of the extremely contagious virus, the Los Angeles Timesreported on Wednesday. Taken together, the cases would account for...

Priests in Guinea beaten and held hostage over Ebola fears

Written on January 21, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Personal Safety, World News.

Three Baptist Priests in Guinea were assaulted and held hostage yesterday by local villagers after being mistaken for campaigners promoting awareness about Ebola. They were visiting Kabac, a village in the sub-prefecture of Forécariah, to spray insecticide for the treatment of wells and pit latrines. Locals reportedly thought they were bringing Ebola and attacked the priests. After the assault they were held hostage and had their vehicle set ablaze. The...

Ebola Drugs Could be Obsolete Before They’re Available

Written on January 20, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Treatments.

New treatments for Ebola could be obsolete before they are available for use by patients, because of genetic mutations in the disease, scientists have warned. They said they’d found 10 new mutations that might interfere with how three of the most advanced drugs work against Ebola. The drugs, including the experimental ZMapp given to several Ebola survivors, should be tested against the current strain, the researchers said. Experimental drugs...

Five H5N1 Avian Flu Deaths So Far This Year

Written on January 19, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, World News.

EGYPT An Egyptian woman and child died of H5N1 avian flu, the health ministry said on Monday, the fourth and fifth persons to die of the illness in the country this year. The six-year-old child died in Minya province on Monday evening, after a 47-year-old woman succumbed to the disease in Assiut province earlier in the day, ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said. Both Assiut and Minya provinces are rural areas that have seen a number of bird...

Cameroon Army Frees 24 Boko Haram Hostages

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

Cameroon’s army has freed 24 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters based in neighbouring Nigeria, government officials said. In their latest cross-border raid on Sunday, the Nigeria-based Boko Haram fighters seized at least 80 people in northern Cameroon, most of them women and children. Cameroon Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakari told Al Jazeera that the Cameroon army was able to free at least...

No New Ebola Cases in Bomi County, Liberia

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

Bomi County, Liberia has not recorded any new cases of Ebola since November 25, 2014, the County Health Officer, Dr. Gabriel G. Logan, has disclosed. He, however, said that this report “should not be the reason for the people of the county to rejoice but instead be cautious.” In an interview with the Liberia News Agency in Tubmanburg recently, Dr. Logan said the County Health Team (CHT) will continue efforts aimed at containing the virus until...