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3 Day Lockdown Ordered in Sierra Leone to End Ebola Outbreak

Written on March 27, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

The entire population of about six million people of Sierra Leone have been ordered to stay at home as a three-day lockdown went into effect Friday morning at 6 a.m. (0600 GMT). Authorities are using lockdown as a final push to end the Ebola outbreak and curb any further infections. Sierra Leone was the worst affected country with the highest number of Ebola infections. Except for two hours on Friday for Muslim prayers and five hours on Sunday...

Rich Countries are Failing the Most Vulnerable, Reports OECD

Written on March 26, 2015. Posted in Featured, World News.

Donor countries are sending more than half of their aid to countries marked by conflict, but they are not keeping their promises to promote peace and build state institutions, according to a new report authored by New York University’s Center on International Cooperation for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). “If we are not addressing fragility, we may be leaving behind some of the most vulnerable members of the...

Did Liberian Ebola Survivor Infect His Girlfriend?

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

MONROVIA, Liberia — A 44-year old woman who tested positive for the Ebola virus on March 20th may have contracted the disease through sexual intercourse with her boyfriend who is a recent Ebola survivor. The man is ”cured” of Ebola, but health officials said that it may be a possible explanation for how she became the country’s first confirmed case in weeks. Ebola is typically transmitted through contact with the blood,...

Santa Barbara Woman in LA-Area Hospital is Negative for Ebola

Written on March 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured.

Monday morning public health officials said that a Santa Barbara County resident who was being monitored since returning from a country experiencing the Ebola epidemic tested negative for the virus at a Los Angeles area hospital. Santa Barbara County Public Health officials said the woman was isolated after she developed a fever and signs of illness on Sunday evening. The patient was initially monitored at home and it was during that monitoring...

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...

Measles Cases Predicted to Almost Double in Ebola Epidemic Countries

Written on March 13, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, World News.

An international study involving the University of Southampton suggests there could be a rise in measles cases of 100,000 across the three countries most affected by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa due to health system disruptions. The research in the journal Science, led by Princeton and Johns Hopkins University in the USA, predicts that the size of a measles outbreak will increase from 127,000 at the start of the Ebola epidemic in early 2014,...

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...