Travel – Ebola

Ebola Outbreak Leads To Thousands of Malaria Deaths

Written on April 24, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, World News.

According to new research, nearly 11,000 extra malaria deaths may have occurred last year due to the disruption of healthcare services in West Africa currently experiencing widespread Ebola virus outbreaks. A further 3,900 deaths may have resulted from interruptions in the delivery of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN), according to outbreak modelling data published in The Lancet on the eve of World Malaria Day. This suggested the haemorrhagic...

North Korea lifts Ebola caused travel ban

Written on March 3, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Government News, Travel, World News.

North Korea has lifted severe restrictions on foreign travel it imposed last year to keep the Ebola virus from crossing its borders, although North Korea is thousands of miles from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The already isolated country virtually closed its borders to foreigners last October, halting all non-essential visas and requiring those few foreigners allowed in to undergo three weeks of quarantine. The rules applied to diplomats,...

North Korea Bans Foreign Runners From Marathon

Written on February 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Travel, World News.

North Korea has banned foreign runners from participating in an international marathon scheduled to be held in the capital in April, citing fears about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, agencies specializing in North Korea tours said on Monday. North Korea is thousands of miles from the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and has reported no cases of the virus, which has killed more than 9,000 people. North Korea has banned all non-Korean...

Dealing With Our Fears of Ebola and ISIS

Written on February 23, 2015. Posted in Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety, Travel.

They are dark, unseen enemies, come from far away – and they are scaring us witless. ISIS is not a disease, and Ebola is not a terror organization. But fear is their common currency: intentional for one, inevitable for the other. Today they can seem to be working in tandem, a pincer movement paralyzing the world’s governments as it terrifies the world’s people. Each time one advances, the space for the other expands. From the vantage point of the...

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...

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...

Disneyland Measles Outbreak Now In 4 States

Written on January 15, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Travel, USA News.

What started as a measles outbreak among seven people who visited Disneyland in December has spread to more than 26, as an unvaccinated California woman apparently transmitted the virus through airports and the theme park, health officials said. The California Department of Public Health confirmed January 7 that the outbreak could be traced back to a group of people who had visited either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park (both in...

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...

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...