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 outbreak: Barack Obama 'to pledge US troops to fight virus'
US President Barack Obama is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help fight the Ebola virus, US officials say. It is understood the US military will oversee building new treatment
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U.S. Military to Send 3,000 to Battle Ebola Virus
The U.S. military will deploy about 3,000 personnel to West Africa to coordinate international aid, build treatment centers and train health-care workers as part of President Barack Obama's offensive against
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Obama Plans Major Ebola Offensive
President Barack Obama plans to dramatically boost the U.S. effort to mitigate the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including greater involvement of the U.S. military, people familiar with the proposal said.
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Ebola in an unprepared Africa
The 2 year old boy who died in December 2013 in Gueckedou, Guinea, is considered the index case of the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by the Zaire species. Up until 2014, the disease was
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Fast-tracking treatments
THE lucky ones are admitted to a health centre. They arrive bleeding, in taxis, on foot, in wheelbarrows and sometimes in ambulances. Mostly there is little help available and patients are dying alone,
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Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks
Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. Here, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality ratio, and potential to spread from person to person.
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Provide Ebola detection facilities at Pune, Nagpur airports: HC
Considering the “urgency and seriousness” required to tackle suspected cases of Ebola infection, the Bombay High Court Wednesday directed the state government to provide adequate detection facilities at
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Single-shot Ebola `vaccine' ups hopes
Scientists may have developed an effective vaccine for the Ebola virus after one shot of an experimental immunization gave monkeys long-term protection from the deadly disease. One shot of a vaccine made
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Ebola then and now
n October 1976, the government of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC]) asked what was then the U.S. Center for Disease Control, where we worked, to join an international group of scientists
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Ebola crisis: Liberia 'faces huge surge' says WHO
Health workers, wearing Personal Protective Equipment, arrive with a potentially contaminated patient at Elwa hospital in Monrovia (7 September 2014). Ebola is spreading exponentially in Liberia, with