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CHIKV Challenge Asks Teams to Forecast the Spread of Infectious Disease
Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)
The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is on the move. Spread among humans by mosquitoes, and spread across geographic boundaries by humans who travel, the virus-which c...
Suffering and song in Sierra Leone's Ebola 'hot zone'
Aug 16, 2014 (AFP)
Virologists call it the "hot zone" -- nature's version of a nuclear ground zero, the centre of an onslaught by one of the most deadly biological agents ever kno...
Ebola epidemic vastly underestimated: WHO
Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)
The UN's health agency said Thursday that the scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been vastly underestimated and "extraordinary measures" were needed...
Ebola highlights growing global virus threat: experts
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
Like the Spanish flu, polio, AIDS, and SARS before it, Ebola has erupted from seemingly nowhere to claim lives and sow fear of a catastrophic global outbreak. W...
West Africa anxiously awaits experimental Ebola drugs
Aug 13, 2014 (AFP)
Up to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine were headed for west Africa Wednesday as the world scrambled to halt the spread of the virus which felled doz...
Older people should get high dose flu shot: study
Aug 13, 2014 (AFP)
Older people are likely to benefit from a high-dose flu vaccine to ward off the seasonal malaise, which can be particularly dangerous to those over 65, research...
Eight Chinese quarantined as panic grips Ebola-hit west Africa
Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)
Eight Chinese medical workers who treated Ebola patients have been quarantined in Sierra Leone, as health experts grapple with ethical questions over the use of...
U.S. firm supplies geo-spatial mapping to track Ebola
Aug 11, 2014 (UPI)
A U.S. geo-spatial technology company is providing Liberia with portable mapping devices to help in the effort to contain and defeat an outbreak of Ebola. The v...
WHO declares Ebola epidemic a global emergency
Aug 09, 2014 (AFP)
Nigeria became the latest country to declare a national emergency over the deadly Ebola virus on Friday, as the World Health Organisation called the epidemic th...
New Nigeria Ebola cases amid fears epidemic 'out of control'
Aug 06, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll of the Ebola epidemic neared 1,000 on Wednesday as fears rose that the disease is now taking hold in Africa's most populous nation of Nigeria aft...
Sierra Leone deploys troops to Ebola clinics
Aug 05, 2014 (AFP)
The government of Sierra Leone has deployed hundreds of troops Ebola clinics, to enforce the isolation of patients, the president's office said on Tuesday. A pr...
HIV may help prevent multiple sclerosis: study
Aug 04, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists said on Monday they had statistical evidence to back a novel theory that infection by the AIDS virus may reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). ...
AIDS conference delegates seek asylum in Australia: agency
Aug 04, 2014 (AFP)
Some 25 delegates to an international AIDS conference held in Melbourne last month fear returning home and will seek asylum in Australia, refugee and welfare ag...
US evacuating two Americans sick with Ebola
Aug 01, 2014 (AFP)
Two US citizens infected by the Ebola virus in West Africa will be evacuated back to the United States to be cared for in strict isolation in the coming days, t...
US says Ebola epidemic won't alter Africa summit plans
Jul 31, 2014 (AFP)
The Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa in seven months will not affect plans for next week's US-Africa summit, the White House s...
Hong Kong makes Ebola 'contingency' measures
Jul 30, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong said Wednesday it was quarantining all people from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia who were showing Ebola-like symptoms on arrival in the city, as fe...
Ebola can spread like 'forest fire,' US warns
Jul 28, 2014 (AFP)
The deadly Ebola virus can spread like a forest fire, US health authorities said Monday, urging travelers to West Africa to take extra precautions amid the larg...
Australian injecting room upholds fight against AIDS epidemic
Jul 24, 2014 (AFP)
Nestled among the bars and strip clubs of Sydney's Kings Cross is a service which not only saves lives, but continues the pragmatic approach which prevented a H...
Poland suffers first cases of African swine fever in pigs
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
Poland on Wednesday confirmed its first cases of deadly swine fever in domestic pigs, as the World Trade Organisation reviewed a Russian embargo on EU pork impo...
South Africa targets screening whole population for AIDS
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
South Africa's government plans to extend AIDS tests to the country's entire population and speed up antiretroviral treatment of those who test positive for the...
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