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...]
Amber Vinson is Ebola Free, Big Pharma Teams-up To Make Vaccine
Authorities have confirmed that doctors can no longer detect the Ebola virus in Amber Vinson’s blood samples. Additional tests should be conducted, as doctors usually do several tests in consecutive days so that a false negative result is ruled out, however, both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University Hospital officials confirmed that Ebola was no longer detectable on … [Read more...]
Burial Teams Declare Strike, Ebola Victims Left on The Streets
Sierra Leone is now experiencing a new crisis as burial teams have gone on strike after not receiving their hazard pay this week. Workers left the bodies of Ebola victims on the streets. The strike was first reported on Wednesday, by the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation. A spokesman from the Health Ministry told reporters that the situation was “very embarrassing” and assured his audience … [Read more...]
121 Ebola Deaths Recorded in a Single day in Sierra Leone
To say that the situation in West Africa is dire would be an understatement. Sierra Leone has recorded 121 deaths caused by Ebola in a single day. Of course, scores of new infections have also been recorded. This makes it one of the deadliest days since the disease was first detected, roughly four months ago. According to the data compiled on Saturday, the total number of deaths went from 557 to … [Read more...]
First Patient to be Diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. is Getting Worse
The first patient to be diagnosed of Ebola in the United States slipped from serious to critical condition on Saturday. In the meanwhile, hospitals in the U.S. are investigating other possible cases. According to U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Thomas Frieden, news of the Ebola patient has spread through hospitals and doctors are now checking all incoming patients for … [Read more...]
Ebola Exposed US Doctor Admitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
In the past months, the Ebola outbreak has claimed many lives of civilians and doctors. Although some people have been treated, and a cure supposedly exists, the outbreak continues to spread through ill-equipped West African nations. An American doctor who was recently exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone was admitted at the National Institutes of Health near the country's … [Read more...]
Ebola growing out of control, warns WHO’s Margaret Chan
The Ebola virus rampaging in West Africa is spreading faster than expected and the World Health Organization fears worldwide disaster. Ignoring the problem will not make it go away. The death toll is rising fast and out of the 4,784 reported cases 2,400 have died says WHO director general Margaret Chan to reporters at the UN health agency's headquarters in Geneva. She also states that the figures … [Read more...]
Ebola Outbreak Stirs Anger in Liberia While American Doctor’s Condition Improves
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government has gone to great lengths to protect impoverished West African residents from the Ebola virus. However, Ebola has claimed more than 1000 lives in Liberia alone. The total death toll right now has surpassed 1900 victims. On September 6, a starving Ebola patient escaped from the ELWA hospital in Monrovia. Scared residents claimed that this was the fifth … [Read more...]
Supply Shortage Forces Liberian Nurses to Improvise Protective Gear
In spite of the international promises of supplies being delivered, nurses in Liberia are forced to make do with what they have to protect themselves from infection. As such, they cup used overalls in an attempt at making makeshift head-coverings. While the World Health Organization has warned involved countries that the 2014 outbreak will become harder and harder to control, it seems that … [Read more...]
African Demand for Ebola Drug Grows While Liberia Lifts its Quarantine
The African demand for Ebola drug is growing. The newly tested drug has managed to completely heal monkeys in lab test. On Saturday, crowds of people celebrated in the street after the authorities reopened a pharmacy that was barricaded for roughly a week to contain the spread of the infection. Kindy Kobbah was expected to be released from the hospital after she survived the infection with … [Read more...]
