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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Evidence that ebolaviruses and cuevaviruses have been diverging from marburgviruses since the Miocene
An understanding of the timescale of evolution is critical for comparative virologybut remains elusive for many RNA viruses. Age estimates based on mutation rates can severely underestimate divergences
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WFP Says it Needs $70 Mln to Feed 1.3 Mln People in Ebola Quarantine
The World Food Programme needs to raise $70 million to feed 1.3 million people at risk from shortages in Ebola-quarantined areas in West Africa, with the agency's resources already stretched by several
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WHO: Senegal Ebola case 'a top priority emergency'
The effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is “a top priority emergency,” the World Health Organization said Sunday, as the government continued tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student
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The structure of the C-terminal domain of the Zaire ebolavirus nucleoprotein
Ebolavirus (EBOV) causes severe hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate of up to 90%. EBOV is a member of the order Mononegavirales and, like other viruses in this taxonomic group, contains a negative-sense
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List steps taken to prevent Ebola: HC
Seeks Report From State, Union Govt The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the state government and the Centre to detail precautions they are taking to prevent the possible spread of the Ebola virus.
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Ebola cases may exceed 20,000, cautions WHO
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as doctors know about now, the WHO said on Thursday . A new plan to stop Ebola by the UN health agency
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Ebola vaccine from GSK to begin U.S. clinical trials within weeks-sources
U.S. health officials will announce on Thursday that a human study of an Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) will begin within a couple of weeks and not later this year as the company estimated
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Ebola causing huge damage to West Africa economies - development bank
The worst ever Ebola outbreak is causing enormous damage to West African economies as foreign businessmen quit the region, the African Development Bank said, while a leading medical charity branded the
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Gombe earmarks N20m to fight Ebola virus
GOMBE State Government has set N20 million aside for the management of any Ebola virus outbreak. Dr Kennedy Ishaya, the state’s Commissioner for Health, stated this at a news conference Gombe on Tuesday.
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Ebola Outbreak: Nigeria Closes all Schools until October
All schools in Nigeria have been ordered to remain shut until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The new academic year was due to start on Monday. But the