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Human Clinical Trials Begin for Deadly Hendra Virus Therapy

Written on May 4, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

The world’s first human clinical trials for a treatment against Hendra virus, a rare but deadly viral disease, have just begun in Australia, using a human monoclonal antibody discovered by Federal scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md. Earlier work led by Christopher Broder, Ph.D., at USU, and Dimitar Dimitrov, Ph.D., at NCI, supported by the National...

Citizen Science Helps Predict Risk of Emerging Infectious Disease

Written on May 4, 2015. Posted in Featured, Science News.

Crowdsourced science helped predict the path of a deadly plant disease over a six-year period, demonstrating the contributions that trained citizen scientists can make in large-scale geographic tracking projects. That’s the conclusion of a study of sudden oak death monitoring in California, published today in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. “Sudden oak death is the Ebola of the plant world, the most serious disease threat to nonagricultural...

Ebola can spread through sex

Written on May 1, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, Science News, World News.

Health officials now think Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex nearly twice as long as previously believed. A Liberian woman appears to have contracted Ebola from unprotected sex with a man who survived the virus, health officials said today. Scientists thought the Ebola virus could remain in semen for about three months. But this case in West Africa suggests infection through sex can happen more than five months later. Based...

MMR Vaccine – No Association Found Between Vaccine and Autism, Even Among Children at Higher Risk

Written on May 1, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

In a study that included approximately 95,000 children with older siblings, receipt of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was not associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), regardless of whether older siblings had ASD, findings that indicate no harmful association between receipt of MMR vaccine and ASD even among children already at higher risk for ASD, according to a study in the April 21 issue of JAMA, a theme...

Is Influenza worse than Ebola?

Written on April 28, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

Influenza Worse Than Ebola? Despite the heavy media coverage and widespread concern surrounding the Ebola virus, Americans face a more serious health threat — influenza or as what we like to call it the Flu. “It’s complicated. It’s exotic. It’s something you hear about on the news every day,” said Dr. Edward Waltz, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at the University at Albany, of the...

The next Ebola?

Written on April 28, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Opinion News, Science News.

Since the first outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in 1976, there have been numerous other outbreaks in humans across Africa with fatality rates ranging from 50% to 90%. Humans can become infected with the Ebola virus after direct contact with blood or bodily fluids from an infected person or animal. The virus also infects and kills other primates, though fruit bats are suspected to be the most likely carriers of the virus in the wild. In the countries...

Where did the Ebola Virus come from?

Written on April 27, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News.

WHERE DID THE EBOLA VIRUS COME FROM? Ebola is one of about 177 pathogens that are considered to be newly emerging diseases. These diseases are generally zoonotic diseases. Animal diseases that have jumped species. A familiar example of a zoonotic disease is measles, which is derived from dog distemper. For the past thirty years, forty-one previously unrecognized human infectious diseases have jumped from their normal animal hosts to human...

Measles – More Deadly Than Ebola According to Patrick Guilfoile

Written on April 27, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which started in 2014, has claimed more than 10,000 lives so far. The Ebola virus causes a frightening illness with symptoms including fever, vomiting, and bleeding. In this most recent epidemic, nearly half the people known to be infected with the virus have died. Although the epidemic shows signs of waning, there is great concern about additional health problems in West Africa. Once Ebola hit, many health care...

Ebola closed schools reopen across West Africa

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

Almost 2 million children in Sierra Leone have returned to school after an eight month break due to Ebola. The Government of Sierra Leone and UNICEF along with other partners are working to ensure that children are safe through teacher training, hand-washing and regular temperature checks. Similar safety standards are in place in Liberia and Guinea, where schools reopened in January and February. In Guinea, more than 1.3 million children have returned...

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...