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UN chief urges respect for Ebola health rules

Written on December 19, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

(Reuters) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, starting a visit to Ebola-hit states in West Africa on Friday, urged their people to set aside traditional practices like washing the dead by hand so as to help end an epidemic that has killed nearly 7,000 people. Ban said he hoped to use his two-day tour of the region – his first since the outbreak was detected in March – to raise the profile of the fight against the disease and to...

GSK Ebola vaccine trial moving to wider phase in February

Written on December 19, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Science News.

(Reuters) – Trials of GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental Ebola vaccine are likely to move to a second phase in February, later than previously suggested, after a meeting of national regulators said they needed more information. The World Health Organization, which hosted a meeting of national regulatory authorities and ethics committees earlier this week, said they had thoroughly discussed all aspects of the proposed trials at the two-day...

Critically ill Doctor cured by experimental Ebola drug

Written on December 19, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

A prototype anti-Ebola drug has helped a critically ill doctor from Sierra Leone, according to the latest study. The medic, who was flown to a German hospital in September with severe Ebola symptoms and discharged a month later, fully recovered. The study, published in medical journal The Lancet, has urged clinical evaluation of the treatment. The 38-year-old doctor was airlifted and transferred to Frankfurt University Hospital in September, showing...

Good News: Mali has not had a case of Ebola for three weeks

Written on December 18, 2014. Posted in Breaking News.

WEST AFRICA-Thursday 18 December 2014 – 11:16am GENEVA – Mali has not had a case of Ebola for three weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, completing one of the two incubation periods the country needs to be declared free of the virus. “No new cases have been reported in Mali since 24 November.” The UN agency said in its latest situation report on the outbreak focused on west Africa. It added: “The...

2 Ebola Patients = 3,000 Pounds of Medical Waste

Written on December 18, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Personal Safety, USA News.

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta – Ebola was a practice run. We may see more cases in this country, but we know now that our public health system can contain it. SARS was also a practice run. So was bird flu. None turned into the pandemic we feared. But health experts agree that one day we will be confronted with a dangerous infectious disease that we cannot contain. Are we ready for it? Jay Varkey, MD, is a specialist in infectious diseases at Emory...

UN Chief Heading to West Africa to See Ebola Response

Written on December 18, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Government News, Health News, World News.

(By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press) The UN chief will leave Wednesday night and visit hard-hit Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as Mali. He will also visit Ghana, where the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is headquartered. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he’s heading to West Africa to demonstrate the U.N.’s solidarity with the countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak and to see for himself how...

Increased Use of Ebola Survivors Could Turn the Tide In the Fight Against the Epidemic in West Africa

Written on December 18, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, World News.

The increased use of Ebola survivors could be the turning point in the fight against the epidemic in West Africa and reducing it. At least two emergency physicians Joshua Epstein and Lauren Sauer from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland are convinced. While hundreds of foreign volunteers are in the affected countries, they emphasize in the journal “Nature” that Ebola survivors, who are most likely immune to the disease...

One of Sierra Leone’s head doctors dies of Ebola

Written on December 18, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, World News.

Dec 18 (Reuters) – One of Sierra Leone’s leading doctors died of Ebola on Thursday, hours after the arrival in the country of an experimental drug that could have been used to treat him, the chief medical officer said. Victor Willoughby was diagnosed with Ebola last week after he treated a man with organ-related problems. The patient, a senior banker, was later diagnosed with Ebola and has since died. The drug, ZMab, was transported...

China approves experimental Ebola vaccine for clinical trials

Written on December 18, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Health News, World News.

(Reuters) – China has approved a domestically developed experimental Ebola vaccine for clinical trials, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing the People’s Liberation Army logistics unit. Scientists around the world are racing to develop Ebola vaccines after the world’s worst outbreak of the virus, which has killed more than 6,000 people in West Africa this year. The Chinese vaccine is being developed by the...

There Are 53 Drugs That Could Treat Ebola

Written on December 17, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Health News, Treatments.

(Time-Alexandra Sifferlin) Scientists have identified 53 existing drugs that could be effective in fighting Ebola, according to newly published research. There is currently no vaccine or drug available to treat the disease, which is one of the primary reasons the virus has been able to infect 18,603 people so far, and kill 6,915. A vaccine is undergoing clinical trials in humans, but a drug to treat people who already have the disease is critically...