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Sierra Leone declares first Ebola Free district

Written on January 12, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

A district in Sierra Leone has been declared Ebola-free, the first to be given the all-clear after 42 days with zero recorded cases of the virus. Pujehun, in the south-east of the country, was hit by Ebola in August and suffered 24 deaths from 31 cases – but it has not had a recorded case since 26 November. This means it has achieved the World Health Organization’s benchmark for Ebola-free status. As the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus disease...

UK Ebola Nurse Condition Improving

Written on January 12, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Treatments, World News.

British Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, is showing signs of improvement and is no longer critically ill, the Royal Free hospital inLondon has said. The Scottish public health worker remains in isolation at the hospital where she is receiving specialist care. She was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow and was admitted to the city’s Gartnavel hospital on 29 December before being transferred...

New thermometer helps doctors more safely diagnose Ebola

Written on January 8, 2015. Posted in Business News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

Recent headlines have put a spotlight on the dangers of diagnosing and treating Ebola. Contact with victims of the deadly disease has left several medical professionals with symptoms of their own. Visiomed, a 90-person medical device company founded in France in 2007, is trying to reduce that danger. It has developed a thermometer, called ThermoFlash, that doesn’t require touching the patient. That eliminates the threat of a doctor contracting...

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...

Anesthesiologists Face the Ebola Epidemic—Time to ‘Educate, Train and Prepare’

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

Because of their responsibility for performing airway intubation and other invasive procedures, anesthesiologists will play an essential role in managing patients with Ebola virus infection. Scientific evidence guiding the anesthetic management of Ebola virus disease (EVD) is presented and analyzed in a special article published byAnesthesia & Analgesia. “Given the current spread of the disease, anesthesia personnel worldwide may be called...

Where Does Ebola Come From?

Written on January 5, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

The hollow Cola tree growing in a remote area of southeastern Guinea was once home to thousands of bats routinely hunted and killed by the neighborhood children. It was also a popular spot to play. A year ago, one child in particular lived within fifty meters of the tree: a two-year-old boy who died in December 2013 and later was identified as the first person in west Africa known to have developed Ebola. The tree was one of the few that loomed...

Ebola Outbreak Offers Lessons, Reminders for Critical Care Clinicians

Written on January 5, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as Ebola in West Africa, offer insight for how healthcare professionals can respond more effectively to current and future challenges, according to editors of the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC). Editors-in-Chief Cindy Munro, RN, PhD, ANP, and Richard H. Savel, M.D., address “Viral Outbreaks in an Age of Global Citizenship” in their editorial for the January AJCCissue, reviewing recent outbreaks and...

Healthcare Worker Exposed to the Ebola Virus is Hospitalized at Nebraska Medicine, Omaha

Written on January 5, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, USA News.

An American healthcare worker exposed to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Omaha Sunday afternoon and is now being monitored at Nebraska Medicine. Paramedics wearing full-body protective gear took the patient, who has not been identified, by ambulance from a plane that arrived at Eppley Airfield around 1:45 p.m. to the hospital, which has a specialized biocontainment unit, the WOWT NBC Omaha reports. “I can’t...