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Obama sends 3,000 troops to W.Africa to 'turn tide' on Ebola
Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will try to "turn the tide" on the Ebola epidemic Tuesday by ordering 3,000 US military personnel to west Africa to curtail its spread...
China ups its medics in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to 174
Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)
China will send more medics to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to help boost laboratory testing for the virus, raising the total number of Chinese medical experts there ...
New defence mechanism against viruses discovered
Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered that a known quality control mechanism in human, animal and plant cells is active against viruses. They think it might represent one...
In US, calls mount for major scale-up to Ebola crisis
Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)
The world response to the deadly Ebola crisis in West Africa needs a major scale-up that should include military flights for delivering supplies, US lawmakers a...
The Search for Ebola Immune Response Targets
Sep 11, 2014 (SPX)
The effort to develop therapeutics and a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) requires a complex understanding of the microorganism and its rela...
New approaches for Ebola virus therapeutics
Sep 09, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with Public Health England, have investigated new ways to identify drugs that could be used to tr...
US to send field hospital to Ebola-hit Liberia
Sep 08, 2014 (AFP)
The US military will send a field hospital to Liberia for medical staff fighting the Ebola virus, the Pentagon said Monday, as part of an expanded effort to ste...
A new way to diagnose malaria
Sep 03, 2014 (SPX)
Over the past several decades, malaria diagnosis has changed very little. After taking a blood sample from a patient, a technician smears the blood across a gla...
Russian Scientists Develop Patent Technology for Unique Flu Vaccine
Sep 03, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russian scientists from the Microgen company have developed and patented new technology used in the creation of a split-virus vaccine. This type of vaccine prod...
Obama warns stopping Ebola 'will not be easy'
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama told West Africans on Tuesday that Ebola could be beaten but cautioned that it would not be easy to stem the spread of the deadly dise...
Leading Ebola researcher says there's an effective treatment for Ebola
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
A leading U.S. Ebola researcher from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has gone on record stating that a blend of three monoclonal antibodies ...
Ebola epidemic decimating health workers in Guinea
Aug 31, 2014 (AFP)
Working at breakneck speed, the nurses rush between departments at Guinea's largest hospital, wearing gloves they have bought at their own expense to protect th...
Therapy for Sudan strain of Ebola may help contain some outbreaks
Aug 29, 2014 (SPX)
Ebola is a rare, but deadly disease that exists as five strains, none of which have approved therapies. One of the most lethal strains is the Sudan ebolavirus (...
Regional crisis talks as Ebola death toll tops 1,500
Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)
Ebola-hit nations met for crisis talks on Thursday as the death toll topped 1,500 and the World Health Organization warned that the number of cases could exceed...
What can fourteenth century Venice teach us about Ebola?
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
The way in which the Italian city of Venice dealt with the outbreak of the plague in the fourteenth century holds lessons on how to even mitigate the consequenc...
Decision support system makes malaria diagnostics more effective
Aug 27, 2014 (SPX)
A Finnish-Swedish research group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, and Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, has devel...
Traders warn of Chinese exodus from Ebola-hit Sierra Leone
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
Li Luming carefully straightens a table cloth in his empty restaurant in Sierra Leone's capital as he laments the damage Ebola has done to business. It is a poi...
Unusual discovery leads to fascinating tuberculosis theory
Aug 25, 2014 (SPX)
Grade school history lessons often have it that American Indians largely were wiped out by diseases such as whooping cough, chicken pox, influenza and tuberculo...
UN vows central role in fighting 'exceptional' Ebola epidemic
Aug 24, 2014 (AFP)
The United Nations vowed Saturday to play a "strong role" in helping Liberia and its neighbours fight a deadly outbreak of Ebola in west Africa, which it said c...
Seals, sea lions help bring tuberculosis from Africa to Americas
Aug 20, 2014 (UPI)
It's widely agreed that seals and sea lions are adorable. But they're also deadly -- sort of. Tuberculosis is not adorable; it kills between one and two million...
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