The World Health Organization speeds up the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. During a press conference, Dr Marie Paule Kieny, a WHO assistant director-general, said they expect several hundred thousand vaccines to be ready by mid-2015. Kieny said that "While we hope that the massive response, which has been put in place will have an impact on the epidemic, it is still … [Read more...]
Ebola Vaccine Available Soon
The Geneva, Switzerland-based World Health Organization chose two Ebola vaccines as the most promising candidates in the fight against the deadly virus. One of them, called rVSV, is developed by the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharma company, makes the other promising vaccine, ChAd3. Either way, we will have an Ebola vaccine available … [Read more...]
Senator James Inhofe Allows $750 Million Funding Shift for Ebola Fight
The Justice Department has just won an important battle that will allow for $750 million in war funds to be shifted towards the fight against Ebola in West Africa. A Republican senator has lifted his objections to the transfer, thus allowing operations to commence. By lifting his objections, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has just granted the Pentagon sufficient funding for approximately six … [Read more...]
CDC Confirms First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the United States
According to U.S. health officials’ statements on Tuesday, the first case of Ebola in the United States had been diagnosed, showing that the deadly outbreak in West Africa has the potential of spreading globally. The patient is currently in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, in isolation. He has recently traveled to West Africa but it was only a few days after returning to Texas … [Read more...]
President Obama Advocates Better Prevention of Other Deadly Outbreaks
The current Ebola outbreak wreaking havoc in Western African countries has, according to many epidemiologists, only advanced to this stage because of an ineffective and far too slow response. Many experts believe that the outbreak that could have been easily controlled, but, because of hesitations, it has now become an all-out epidemic and will cause the deaths of thousands despite a full … [Read more...]
Aid Groups Ask World Leaders for Faster Ebola Response
New forecasts revealed on Tuesday suggest that every 30-day delay in the isolation of an Ebola patient will result in the tripling of daily cases of the hemorrhagic fever epidemic that is decimating the populations of West African countries. World leaders are gathering this week in New York for the annual United Nations meeting and U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon has called for a special … [Read more...]
WHO Warns that Ebola Cases Could Reach 20,000 by November
A World Health Organization report suggests that the number of current Ebola cases in West Africa could quadruple to over 20,000 by November if monumental efforts aren’t made to hinder the transmission of the hemorrhagic fever. According to the researchers who published the study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the West African outbreak could become an endemic among the countries … [Read more...]
Three Day National Lockdown in Sierra Lone
A three day nationwide lockdown has just begun in Sierra Leone, one of the West African countries struck by the deadly Ebola outbreak. Authorities are attempting to contend with the never before seen lethal thrust that the hemorrhagic virus has across West Africa. Experts, however, fear that such measures may do more harm than good. Sierra Leone is one of the nations that was hit the worst by the … [Read more...]
Funds Requested by Sierra Leone to Evacuate Ill Doctor
One of the West African countries dealing with the Ebola outbreak has urged the World Health Organization to provide funds that would ensure the evacuation of the doctor infected with the deadly hemorrhagic fever virus. Among the doctors working in Sierra Leone, Dr. Olivet Buck is the fourth to become ill with Ebola. The vast majority of the diagnosed cases of Ebola were located in Sierra Leone, … [Read more...]
Has the Ebola Virus Been Lurking Undetected in West Africa?
Of all the viruses in the world, Ebola is one of the most feared ones. It has managed to kill over 600 people so far in West Africa, and studies show that it has been smoldering there for years. As a matter of fact, researchers claim that people who have been getting sick from it, thought they had a different illness. New studies of blood samples from people suffering from different viral-like … [Read more...]