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U.S. Soldiers sent to fight Ebola quarantined for 21 days

Written on January 7, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, USA News.

More than 100 Fort Carson soldiers are taking online classes while they wait out a three-week quarantine that welcomed them back from Liberia, where they spent seven weeks helping locals tackle that nation’s Ebola epidemic. The 615th Engineer Company soldiers came home months ahead of schedule because Liberia had more Ebola-fighting resources than Defense and State Department officials anticipated. They were sent to Joint Base Lewis-McChord...

New Findings May Help Combat Enterovirus D68

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

(Global Biodefense) New research findings point toward a class of compounds that could be effective in combating infections caused by enterovirus D68, which has stricken children with serious respiratory infections and might be associated with polio-like symptoms in the United States and elsewhere. The researchers have used a technique called X-ray crystallography to learn the precise structure of the original strain of EV-D68 on its own and when...

Johnson & Johnson starts Ebola Vaccine trial

Written on January 6, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Science News, World News.

The first of 72 healthy volunteers have already received the initial dose of a drug researchers hope could put an end to the worst Ebola outbreak in the history. Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, owned byJohnson & Johnson (JNJ), is developing the ebola vaccine together with Bavarian Nordic. The company said it could begin large scale trials by May, and make 2 million vaccinations available later this year. The drug does not contain the virus...

Ebola in Asia? Scientists hunt virus through bats

Written on January 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, World News.

(NPR) A few years ago, disease ecologist David Hayman made the discovery of a lifetime. He was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge. But he spent a lot of that time hiking through the rain forest of Ghana, catching hundreds of fruit bats. “We would set large nets, up in the tree canopies,” he says. “And then early morning, when the bats are looking for fruit to feed on, we’d captured them.” Hayman didn’t...

Italian Ebola patient released from hospital in Rome

Written on January 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Treatments, World News.

(Reuters) – Italy’s only Ebola patient is fully recovered and was released from hospital on Friday more than a month after being flown to Rome from Sierra Leone where he worked as a doctor treating others stricken by the disease. The 50-year-old Sicilian man has been identified only by his first name, Fabrizio. He contracted the hemorrhagic virus while working for humanitarian group Emergency during the worst Ebola outbreak on record. “For...

Aethlon Medical announces approval of revolutionary Ebola treatment

Written on January 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Science News, USA News.

SAN DIEGO, PRNewswire/ — Aethlon Medical, Inc. (AEMD), the pioneer in developing targeted therapeutic devices to address infectious diseases and cancer, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a clinical protocol to treat Ebola-infected individuals in the U.S. with the Aethlon Hemopurifier®. In the treatment of viral pathogens, the Hemopurifier® is a first-in-class bio-filtration device designed...

Sierra Leone’s president calls for week of fasting, prayer over Ebola

Written on January 1, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

(Reuters) – Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma asked the country to begin a week of fasting and prayers on Thursday to end the Ebola virus that has killed more than 2,700 of his countrymen. The worst outbreak on record of the virus is still spreading in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone, and the number of known cases globally has exceeded 20,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. In a New Year’s Day...

Liberia lifts curfew for New Year’s Eve

Written on December 31, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

(BBC News) Worshippers should avoid over-crowding and touching to prevent contagion, the deputy information minister said. Health agencies did not comment directly on the one-night suspension, but warned against complacency. Liberia’s government had hoped for an Ebola-free Christmas, but the disease has continued to claim lives. The virus has killed nearly 8,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where it was first identified...

Experimental drug for Scottish Nurse battling Ebola

Written on December 31, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Science News, Treatments, World News.

(BBC NEWS) Specialists at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where the nurse is being treated, did not name the drug. Dr Michael Jacobs said Ms Cafferkey was in isolation and was sitting up in bed, talking and reading. As the disease has no known cure and is unpredictable, Dr Jacobs said they would know more in a week’s time. He said Ms Cafferkey had agreed to all the treatments and her family had been to see her. “She’s a...

Ebola crisis back in focus as UK case confirmed

Written on December 30, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, World News.

(Katy Barnato -CNBC) The international Ebola epidemic made headlines again on Tuesday after the U.K. announced its first in-country case of the deadly virus and two other patients underwent tests. Ebola continues to rage in West Africa, and the British government said on Monday that a healthcare worker had been diagnosed with the disease one day after flying from Sierra Leone to Glasgow. The nurse has since been transferred to the Royal Free Hospital...