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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...

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 in the United Kingdom: Nurse Receives Blood Plasma of Survivors

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

London – Pauline Cafferkey is currently being treated with an experimental drug and blood plasma from survivor Will Pooley. But her case raises questions about disease control and Ebola in the United Kingdom. She wanted to help and is now in the hospital herself. Nevertheless, the British nurse infected with Ebola is doing well under the circumstances. “Ms Cafferkey is not feeling well but it would be fair to say that she is as well...

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...

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...