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Liberia Fights Back, Only 5 Ebola Cases in Entire Country

Written on January 26, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

Just five confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease remain in Liberia, a West African country that has seen more than 3,600 deaths from the outbreak of the deadly virus, Reuters quoted a senior health official as saying Friday. “It means that we are going down to zero, if everything goes well, if other people don’t get sick in other places,” said Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who leads Liberia’s Ebola task force. Three...

Ebola Care Centers in Liberia nearly empty as Outbreak fades

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country’s success in halting new infections. “We have five confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia as of today,” said Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia’s Ebola taskforce. “It means that we are going down to zero,...

Why you should worry less about Ebola and more about Measles

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Personal Safety, USA News, World News.

Officials stressed the Ebola epidemic in Africa was going to be contained. Then it mushroomed to the worst Ebola outbreak in history and jumped an ocean, as a Liberian man named Thomas E. Duncan brought the disease to Texas. It’s clear the United States has already messed up several times in the fight against Ebola. There will probably be blunders in coming weeks, too. Of course, a mass Ebola outbreak in the United States never materialized. But...

Ebola Deaths Parallel with Devastating Medieval Plague

Written on January 22, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

As Ebola Deaths Rise, Researcher Sees Parallels with Devastating Medieval Plague If you think that Ebola is bad – and it is – the current outbreak in West Africa is small compared with another deadly epidemic that engulfed much of the globe centuries ago. It is realistic to estimate that during the Middle Ages, plague – also known as the Black Death – wiped out 40 to 60 percent of the population in large areas of Europe, Africa and Asia, according...

Priests in Guinea beaten and held hostage over Ebola fears

Written on January 21, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Personal Safety, World News.

Three Baptist Priests in Guinea were assaulted and held hostage yesterday by local villagers after being mistaken for campaigners promoting awareness about Ebola. They were visiting Kabac, a village in the sub-prefecture of Forécariah, to spray insecticide for the treatment of wells and pit latrines. Locals reportedly thought they were bringing Ebola and attacked the priests. After the assault they were held hostage and had their vehicle set ablaze. The...

Ebola Drugs Could be Obsolete Before They’re Available

Written on January 20, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Treatments.

New treatments for Ebola could be obsolete before they are available for use by patients, because of genetic mutations in the disease, scientists have warned. They said they’d found 10 new mutations that might interfere with how three of the most advanced drugs work against Ebola. The drugs, including the experimental ZMapp given to several Ebola survivors, should be tested against the current strain, the researchers said. Experimental drugs...

No New Ebola Cases in Bomi County, Liberia

Written on January 19, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

Bomi County, Liberia has not recorded any new cases of Ebola since November 25, 2014, the County Health Officer, Dr. Gabriel G. Logan, has disclosed. He, however, said that this report “should not be the reason for the people of the county to rejoice but instead be cautious.” In an interview with the Liberia News Agency in Tubmanburg recently, Dr. Logan said the County Health Team (CHT) will continue efforts aimed at containing the virus until...

Ebola vaccine gets $115M to speed development

Written on January 16, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

Johnson & Johnson said on Friday that newly formed groups supporting work on its experimental Ebola vaccine would receive 100 million euros ($115 million) from Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative to speed development. The U.S. drug maker earlier this month announced it had started clinical trials of its two-injection vaccine, which uses a booster from Denmark’sBavarian Nordic, making it the third such product to enter human...

Malawi Floods Cut Off Thousands from Aid

Written on January 16, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

The authorities in Malawi say at least 170 people have died in flash floods – a sharp rise on previous figures. Heavy rain over the past month has swept many houses away and caused residents to flee to higher ground, some crossing the border to Mozambique. Vice-President Saulos Chilima said more than 100,000 people had been displaced from their homes, mostly in the south. Earlier this week, the government declared a third of the country to...

Red Cross Volunteer Dies in Sierra Leone

Written on January 14, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

Freetown, 14 December 2015: The Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) is deeply saddened by the death of a staff member to the Ebola virus disease. “Our thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of this brave staff member during this particularly difficult time. We are extremely grateful for his work and dedication to the Red Cross, and to the fight against this deadly disease,” said Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General, IFRC. The...

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