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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Struggling Liberia creates 'plague villages' in Ebola epicentre
To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicentre of the virus, evoking the "plague villages" of medieval Europe that were shut
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Fever rising
IN EASTERN Sierra Leone the roads are unusually quiet. Checkpoints manned by heavily armed soldiers have blocked all movement to and from the districts of Kailahun and Kenema. The main road to Freetown,
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More than one million people affected by Ebola outbreak: WHO
With more than one million people affected by the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the WHO has warned that there is "no early end in sight" to the severe health crisis and called for "extraordinary
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No case of Ebola in India
The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that there was no confirmed or even suspect case of Ebola virus disease in India as yet. In a statement, the Ministry said that a 30-year-old Nigerian national,
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Govt confirms 198 Ebola cases
ABOUT 198 cases of Ebola virus infections have been established in the country. Out of these, 177 are said to be in Lagos, while the remaining 21 are in Enugu. The figures were made public Wednesday
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Ebola outbreak: Kenya at high risk, warns WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a "high-risk" country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights
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WHO approves experimental Ebola drug
Spanish priest becomes 1st European to succumb to latest Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation authorised on Tuesday the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000
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WHO backs use of experimental Ebola drugs in West Africa epidemic
Liberia says it plans to treat two infected doctors with an unproven Ebola medicine called ZMapp People infected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation
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Ebola virus VP24 targets a unique NLS binding site on Karyopherin Alpha 5 to selectively compete with nuclear import of phosphorylated STAT1
During antiviral defense, interferon (IFN) signaling triggers nuclear transport of tyrosine-phosphorylated STAT1 (PY-STAT1), which occurs via a subset of karyopherin alpha (KPNA) nuclear transporters.
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Ebola — Underscoring the global disparities in health care resources
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has jolted West Africa, claiming more than 1000 lives since the virus emerged in Guinea in early 2014. The rapidly increasing numbers of cases in the African countries