Drug resistance among top threats: WHO
NEW DELHI: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been identified as one of the 10 threats to global health in 2019 by World Health Organisation (WHO). The other threats on this list include HIV, Ebola, dengue,
Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever)
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Ebola contained by 'complex' rapid response, not just vaccine: WHO
GENEVA: The World Health Organization has a message for those trying to understand how the latest Ebola outbreak was contained so quickly: don't give the new vaccine all the credit. Compared to the
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How human semen increase spread of Ebola virus infection
Researchers have found that protein found in human semen significantly increases Ebola virus infection, explaining how sexual transmission has led to the virus' resurgence. Although Ebola is transmitted
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Disease-ecology approach must to tackle Nipah’
The global epidemiological trends of many viral diseases clearly indicate resurgence of some hitherto quiescent yet virulent pathogens and emergence of new strains that pose a challenge to medical science.
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Immunisation drive hailed as watershed for Africa as leaders target public health
In a double move hailed as a milestone for public health, African leaders have launched an agency to tackle global threats such as Ebola and pledged to make immunisation available throughout the continent
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Exposure patterns driving Ebola transmission in West Africa: A retrospective observational study
<p>The ongoing West African Ebola epidemic began in December 2013 in Guinea, probably from a single zoonotic introduction. As a result of ineffective initial control efforts, an Ebola outbreak of unprecedented
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Minimally symptomatic infection in an Ebola ‘hotspot’: A cross-sectional serosurvey
<p>Evidence for minimally symptomatic Ebola virus (EBOV) infection is limited. During the 2013–16 outbreak in West Africa, it was not considered epidemiologically relevant to published models or
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India to submit action plan to UN for checking rise of bugs resistant to antibiotics
The UN General Assembly will meet on September 13. For the fourth time in its history, the heads of states gathered for the UN General Assembly meeting will discuss a burning global health issue that
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Human trial of Zika vaccine to start soon
The first Phase-1 human clinical trial of a vaccine for the Zika virus is set to begin in the coming weeks, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) green-lighting it. The DNA vaccine (GLS-5700)
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Detecting presymptomatic infection is necessary to forecast major epidemics in the earliest stages of infectious disease outbreaks
<p>We assess how presymptomatic infection affects predictability of infectious disease epidemics. We focus on whether or not a major outbreak (i.e. an epidemic that will go on to infect a large number