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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Guinea: Ebola Could Stay Longer in Guinea, S/Leone
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is still not over amid reports that the disease could still longer in Guinea and Sierra Leone than expected. Health officials continue to report cases in the two countries,
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Effect of the Ebola-virus-disease epidemic on malaria case management in Guinea, 2014: a cross-sectional survey of health facilities
The ongoing west Africa Ebola-virus-disease epidemic has disrupted the entire health-care system in affected countries. Because of the overlap of symptoms of Ebola virus disease and malaria, the care delivery
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Temporal and spatial analysis of the 2014–2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa
West Africa is currently witnessing the most extensive Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak so far recorded. Until now, there have been 27,013 reported cases and 11,134 deaths. The origin of the virus is thought
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Sierra Leone Imposes Ebola Curfew for Northern Districts
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone is introducing new curfews for two northern districts after a spike in new Ebola cases to the highest level in months, President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Friday. The 18-month-long
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Ghana Approves Trial of Ebola Vaccine
Accra — Despite protests from civil society, the Ghanaian Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) have given the nod for the commencement of Ebola vaccine trial in the country. The regulatory body in an official
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Ghana Says Locals Used As 'Guinea Pigs' in Ebola Trial
Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as "guinea pigs" in a country currently free of the deadly disease. A spokesman for the West
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A Chinese Ebola Drug Raises Hopes, and Rancor
After a nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone was discharged Wednesday from a Rome hospital, a doctor there described the experimental treatments the patient had received as “absolutely miraculous.”
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Ebola spikes again in Guinea, Sierra Leone: WHO
In Guinea, 16 new cases were found in the week ending June 7, with 15 more found in neighbouring Sierra Leone The number of Ebola cases has risen in Guinea and Sierra Leone for the second consecutive
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Guinea Extends Ebola Emergency Measures
Ebola-hit Guinea has extended a health emergency declared in March until the end of June, citing the persistence of the deadly virus in the country, the presidency said on Saturday. The decision was taken
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Nigeria: Vaccinologist Develops Immunogenic Experimental Ebola Vaccine
A vaccine developer from Nigeria, Dr Simon Agwale Friday in Paris, France, presented his progress report on Ebola vaccine saying that he "developed an EBOV candidate vaccine that is highly immunogenic