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Scottish Ebola Nurse transferred to London hospital

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

A Scottish Ebola nurse was on the way to specialist facilities in London on Tuesday morning after being diagnosed with the Ebola virus. The woman had been treated in an isolation unit in Glasgow after being diagnosed hours after arriving home from west Africa via a British Airways flight from Heathrow. She was later transferred from Glasgow airport on a military-style plane in a quarantine tent surrounded by a group of health workers in full protection...

Ebola Epidemic Spurs Students to Launch Global Design Competition for Medical Healing

Written on December 29, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

Driven by suffering Ebola patients and caregivers, architecture and medical students at New York Institute of Technology have launched a global competition to generate design ideas for mobile healing environments in areas affected by epidemics. The students formed a nonprofit group, Habitat for Healing, to solicit ideas for what they are calling Mobile Architectures for Strategic Healing or the “MASH Pad” project. The competition is...

CDC: Lab tech may have been exposed to Ebola.

Written on December 26, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, Science News, USA News.

Experts say “We can’t afford these mistakes” By Steve Almasy, CNN — A lab tech from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be monitored for three weeks after possibly being exposed to the Ebola virus at one of the agency’s Atlanta labs, the CDC said Wednesday. The CDC said in a written statement that a small amount of material from an experiment was mistakenly transferred from one lab to another and it...

Human Genome May Provide Clues into the Ebola Virus

Written on December 23, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, Treatments, World News.

Ramaswamy Narayanan, Ph.D., professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University, is working to blend the power of computers with biology to use the human genome to remove much of the guesswork involved in discovering cures for diseases. In an article titled “Ebola-Associated Genes in the Human Genome: Implications for Novel Targets,” published in the current MedCrave Online Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics,...

53 Approved Drugs Identified that May Block Ebola Infection

Written on December 23, 2014. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News, Treatments, World News.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections. Among the better known drug types shown to hinder infection by an Ebola virus model: several cancer drugs,...

Untested Ebola drug given to patients in Sierra Leone causes UK walkout

Written on December 22, 2014. Posted in Business News, Featured, Science News, Treatments, World News.

(The Guardian – Sarah Boseley/Freetown) Ebola patients at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone have been given a heart drug that is untested against the virus in animals and humans, a move that has been deemed reckless by one senior scientist and has prompted UK medical staff at the centre to leave. A 14-strong team of British doctors, nurses and paramedics stopped working at the Lakka treatment centre in Freetown because of their concerns...

Could Christmas Worsen Ebola’s Spread?

Written on December 22, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, World News.

Christmas is coming. Around the world, people who celebrate the end of the year holidays are taking time off and heading home to see friends and relatives. They include aid workers fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. And they include residents of the three countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic. It worries Dr. Dan Kelly. And officials in Sierra Leone were concerned enough to limit public gatherings for the holidays. “The...

New ‘Bourbon Virus’ Blamed for Kansas Man’s Death

Written on December 22, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, USA News.

The never-before-seen virus was named for Bourbon County, Kansas, where its only known victim lived. The man got sick over the summer and died, and it’s taken six months for doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital as well as state and national epidemiologists to solve the mystery of his death. “Its genome is similar to viruses that have been found in eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, but no virus like that has ever been identified...

Ebola-Stricken Families to Receive Cash Payments

Written on December 22, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

In 2015, the three Ebola-affected countries will start offering cash payments for families hit by Ebola, as well as survivors having trouble re-acclimating to society out of stigma for the disease. Every aspect of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone’s societies have taken a hit from Ebola, and the disease has shocked what were once fragile but growing economies. Public spaces are now forbidden, so markets are empty, tourists are no longer traveling...

World Health Organization say recorded Ebola deaths top 7,000

Written on December 22, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, Travel, World News.

(Time-CONAKRY, Guinea) — The worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed more than 7,000 people, with many of the latest deaths reported in Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization said as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continued his tour of Ebola-affected countries in West Africa on Saturday. The three countries hit hardest by Ebola have now recorded 7,373 deaths, up from 6,900 on Wednesday, according to WHO figures posted online...