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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Falling Ebola cases show 'turning point'
There has been a "turning point" in the Ebola crisis, with cases falling in the three affected countries, World Health Organization officials say. Just eight cases were detected in Liberia in the last
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Ebola Vaccines May Get Faster Approval as Outbreak Wanes
Experimental Ebola vaccines to be tested in West Africa could go through an alternative path for U.S. regulatory approval, since a waning epidemic is making it difficult to gather the full array of data
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Ebola: Great apes 'need a vaccine too' as virus has wiped out a third of their numbers in past outbreaks
Ebola is the single biggest threat to the survival of gorillas and chimpanzees, having wiped out a third of their populations since the 1990s. With mortality rates as high as 95% for gorillas and 77%
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WHO team that took on polio in India joins fight against Ebola in Africa
A team of Indian medical workers, who played an important role in eradicating polio from hotspots such as UP, Bihar and West Bengal, has joined the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The
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Davos: Western world ‘vulnerable’ to epidemics, warns Ebola expert
The Western world is "vulnerable" to epidemics such as Ebola, and must invest more in researching vaccines, a leading scientist has warned. Prof Peter Piot told the BBC that developed nations would
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The economic impact of Ebola on Sub-Saharan Africa: updated estimates for 2015
The most severe impact of the Ebola epidemic, which began in Guinea in December 2013 and quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been in lost human lives and suffering. This report, prepared for
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Global response to Ebola inadequate, says WHO
Despite severity of problem, essential surveillance, laboratory, data management, and other capacities were not in place The World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned that no single control intervention
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Mali government declares country Ebola-free
BAMAKO – Mali’s health minister declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus. Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which,
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Ebola Spread After WHO’s 2010 Warning Ignored, Agency Says
Ebola spread throughout West Africa last year after the World Health Organization’s call for a global health corps went unheeded, the agency said today. A WHO review committee convened in 2010 in the
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Jamaica, IDB sign agreement to combat CHIKV, Ebola
THE Government of Jamaica has signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to allocate US$250,000 of grant resources to improve national surveillance, prevention and control of infectious