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First Ebola Victim May Have Contracted the Virus From a Bat

December 30, 2014 Posted by Editor

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The first Ebola victim that the scientists believe triggered the recent Ebola epidemic was a two-year-old boy from Guinea named Emile Oumaouno. The recent reports reveal that the boy may have been infected after playing in a hollow tree where there was a colony of bats. The scientists made the connection after traveling to where the boy lived, a village called Meliandou, and after talking to … [Read more...]

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Unsafe Burials in Sierra Leone Linked to 70 Percent of New Ebola Cases

December 22, 2014 Posted by Editor

In Sierra Leone, health officials are now struggling to change traditional burial practices into safer ones since up to 70 percent of Ebola cases in this country were caused by unsafe burials. Doctors say that teaching people to wash their hands or avoid standing in crowded places was a relatively easy task compared to the new challenge of changing African burial mentality. Several health … [Read more...]

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Experts Debate Two-Shot Ebola Vaccine (+Video)

December 11, 2014 Posted by Contributor

While Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the countries hit worst by the Ebola outbreak seem to be crumbling under the weight of the epidemic that has killed over 6,000 people, scientists are working around the clock to produce a viable vaccine against the deadly disease. A two-shot Ebola vaccine might be an option. There are already several Ebola vaccine trials underway, and those being conducted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Ebola outbreak, ebola outbreak containment, Ebola outbreak out of control, ebola vaccine clinical trials, ebola vaccine development, ebola vaccine prevention, ebola vaccines, two-shot ebola vaccine

First Results for the Ebola Vaccine Show Promise

November 30, 2014 Posted by Editor

The Ebola vaccine that scientists have been struggling to come up with in the battle against the fatal disease has just undergone the first testing phase and proves amazing potential. So far, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has caused nearly 16,000 cases of infection, and 5,674 deaths over the territory of the three countries most affected by it - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Given the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: cAd3-EBO, Ebola, Ebola cure, Ebola outbreak, ebola vaccine, Ebola virus, NIAID

Mali Ends Quarantine, 108 Declared Ebola Free

November 10, 2014 Posted by Contributor

After its brush with Ebola which started last month, Mali is about to release 108 people who had been quarantined in an effort to contain the outbreak. Everything began when a woman attempted to rescue her two granddaughters from the hemorrhagic fever by bringing them from Guinea, the epidemic's cradle, to Mali. The 700-mile ride aboard buses and taxis back to the woman's home in Kayes, … [Read more...]

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Survivor’s Antibodies Could Cure Ebola, Scientists Say

November 7, 2014 Posted by Staff

Three Nobel laureates believe that they have found the cure for Ebola. They believe that it is possible to cure this disease by harnessing antibodies from survivors' of the outbreak. For this purpose, they have proposed U.S. officials to focus on a new path to containing the situation. The blood of survivors, also named "convalescent serum", was administered to four U.S. Ebola patients. All of … [Read more...]

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Visa Bans imposed by Canada on Nations affected by Ebola Outbreak

October 31, 2014 Posted by Editor

An announcement made on Friday by the Canadian government addressed the current Ebola outbreak, saying that visas will no longer be issued to people from the three West African nations where the deadly disease is raging. The move was explained by the federal citizenship ministry, which sad in an official document that: "the introduction or spread of the disease would pose an imminent and … [Read more...]

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Ebola Cases Suspected to Surpass 10.000, Says WHO

October 25, 2014 Posted by Contributor

This Ebola outbreak is the most severe in the history of the disease. According to WHO, over 10.000 people in West Africa are believed to have fallen ill with the disease and the list of deceased surpasses 5.000. As if this weren't enough, these reports have surfaced amid concerns about potential spread of Ebola in Mali. A two-year-old girl died of Ebola on Friday. She was taken by her grandmother … [Read more...]

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WHO: 200,000 Ebola Vaccine Doses Available by Mid-2015

October 24, 2014 Posted by Editor

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...]

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43 Ebola Patient Contacts Leave Isolation, Authorities Urge Compassion

October 20, 2014 Posted by Editor

On Monday, 43 out of the 48 initial contacts of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first U.S. Ebola victim, have been allowed to resume their lives after a 21-day isolation period. Dallas officials not only celebrated the milestone but also asked the community to welcome them back into their midst without stigmatizing those who are returning to their normal routines. "There is zero risk that any of … [Read more...]

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