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Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)

The UN nuclear agency said Tuesday that it will provide specialised equipment to West African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak to help faster diagnosis. The ...

Preliminary Ebola tests come back positive for Dallas healthcare worker

Oct 12, 2014 (UPI)

A second Ebola case has been diagnosed in the United States, as preliminary tests for the deadly disease have come back positive for a healthcare worker in Dall...

The mathematics behind the Ebola epidemic

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich have calculated new benchmark figures to precisely describe the Ebola epidemic...

Computers make powerful allies in fight against AIDS

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

The battle against AIDS cannot be won in the laboratory alone. To fight the potentially deadly virus that 34 million people are suffering from we need help from...

A universal Ebola drug target

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

University of Utah biochemists have reported a new drug discovery tool against the Ebola virus. According to a study published in this week's online edition of ...

Low concentrations of heavy metals contributes to antibiotic resistance

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

New Swedish research shows that plasmids containing genes that confer resistance to antibiotics can be enriched by very low concentrations of antibiotics and he...

EU well armed to prevent an Ebola epidemic: experts

Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)

The European Union must fill gaps to stop the spread of Ebola now that an infected nurse in Spain has exposed these failings, but it is well armed to prevent an...

Britain sends 750 military personnel to combat Ebola

Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)

Britain is sending 750 military personnel, a medical ship and three helicopters to Sierra Leone to help fight the spread of Ebola, officials said Wednesday. The...

Hi-tech images point to chinks in HIV's armour

Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)

In a boost for the long and frustrating quest for an AIDS vaccine, researchers on Wednesday unveiled molecular imaging of an elusive feature that helps HIV infe...

US troops in Africa could stay a year in Ebola mission

Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)

US troops deployed to West Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak could stay up to a year, depending on how quickly the virus can be contained, a top general said T...

West Africa finetunes multi-national force to fight Boko Haram

Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)

The leaders of Nigeria and its neighbouring countries met in Niger on Tuesday for talks on finalising a multi-national force to fight Boko Haram Islamist milita...

'Vaccinated' mosquitos released in Rio to combat dengue

Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)

Ten thousand mosquitos immunized against dengue fever have been released in Brazil as part of an innovative attempt to curb the spread of the tropical viral sic...

Ebola epidemic battering Liberian economy: minister

Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)

Liberia's Ebola crisis is battering the economy of a nation that has spent the past decade recovering from 14 years of civil war, its minister of commerce said ...

1,400 US troops soon headed to Liberia for Ebola mission

Sep 30, 2014 (AFP)

The US military will send more than a thousand troops to Liberia in coming weeks as part of Washington's effort to counter the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, th...

UN confronts deadly Ebola epidemic

Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)

World leaders gathered at the United Nations heard dire warnings and desperate pleas for assistance Thursday as the deadly Ebola virus forced Sierra Leone to qu...

Sierra Leone quarantines one million ahead of UN Ebola talks

Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)

Sierra Leone began a quarantine of more than one million people Thursday in the largest open-ended lockdown in the Ebola outbreak, as world leaders met to discu...

UTSA microbiologists discover regulatory thermometer that controls cholera

Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)

Karl Klose, professor of biology and a researcher in UTSA's South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, has teamed up with researchers at Ruhr Universi...

Sierra Leone's three-day Ebola shutdown ends

Sep 22, 2014 (AFP)

Millions of Sierra Leoneans emerged from their homes on Monday after a three-day nationwide lockdown during which scores of dead bodies and new cases of Ebola i...

Liberia's women, children bear brunt of Ebola epidemic

Sep 19, 2014 (AFP)

Exhausted and unable to process her loss, Olivia Clark turns away in silence as her dead baby is disinfected and loaded onto a truck by a team of Ebola speciali...

Coercion could worsen Ebola epidemic, say experts

Sep 18, 2014 (AFP)

Coercive measures to stem the deadly Ebola epidemic in West Africa, such as confining people to their homes, could backfire badly, experts say. The Sierra Leone...