Google Alert - Ebola

	Ebola As-it-happens update ⋅ March 1, 2018
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	Deadly Ebola's kin The New Indian Express Nigeria is suffering its worst outbreak of Lassa fever, the WHO said Wednesday, as nearly 90 people died this year according to local health officials. The fever is caused by a virus of the same family as the deadly Ebola. The fever plaguing Nigeria. Lassa fever is endemic to Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and ... Nigeria Gripped by Massive Lassa Fever Outbreak…90 deaths reported - Liberian Daily Observer Record highs in Nigeria Lassa fever outbreak: WHO - Independent WHO says record highs in Nigeria's Lassa fever outbreak - Saudi Gazette Full Coverage Flag as irrelevant
	Science journalists Jon Cohen, Carl Gierstorfer explain how, why diseases spread St. Louis Public Radio On Wednesday's St. Louis on the Air, producer Alex Heuer talked with science journalist Jon Cohen, a staff writer for Science Magazine, and documentary filmmaker Carl Gierstorfer about their work on HIV, AIDS and Ebola. Both have received support from the Pulitzer Center for their reporting projects. Flag as irrelevant
	Ebola Virus Vaccine Market Dynamics, Comprehensive Analysis, Business Growth, Prospects And ... Facts of Week The "Ebola Virus Vaccine Market" Report offers an inclusive and decision-making overview, including definitions, classifications and its applications. The Ebola Virus Vaccine market is anticipated to reflect a positive growth trend in forthcoming years. The essential driving forces behind the growth and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Missing CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham Was Upset About Being Denied Promotion Newsweek Investigators have repeatedly said that there is no evidence of foul play, but his family said the disappearance is highly unusual for the Harvard graduate, who worked on teams involved in treating the Ebola and Zika crises. The man's keys, cell phone, wallet and identification cards have all been located ... Missing CDC scientist allegedly told neighbor to delete his phone number a day before ... - USA TODAY Missing CDC scientist had meeting about being passed over for promotion before disappearance ... - WTSP 10 News Missing CDC employee last fall said he was trying to 'help the lives of others' - ABC News Full Coverage Flag as irrelevant
	#SaloneDecides: Will new parties end Sierra Leone's two-party dominance? African Arguments Opposition candidates challenged the APC's mismanagement of the Ebola crisis and recent economic policies, including a new controversial toll road linking the capital and Northern provinces. The ruling party's candidate, Kamara, responded by emphasising a decade of experience in power. He also ... Flag as irrelevant
	Tolbert Nyenswah Pushes for Public Health Institutes Across Africa The Bush Chicken Nyenswah cited the impact of NPHIL in 2017, a year in which he said the institute responded to 39 outbreaks of reportable diseases including measles, lassa fever, scabies, meningitis, and monkey pox. "Response time was within 24-48 hours while lab turn-around time was cut from 90 days pre-ebola to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Figures of the week: Tracking African political transitions Brookings Institution (blog) Sierra Leone heads to the polls next week (March 7) for presidential, legislative, and local elections, marking the fourth election since the end of the 2002 civil war and the first election since the Ebola outbreak. President Ernest Bai Koroma is stepping down and his party has picked former Foreign ... Flag as irrelevant
	CDC to downsize international epidemic prevention work American Veterinary Medical Association The cuts are necessary because a five-year supplemental package awarded to the CDC and other government agencies in fiscal year 2015—spurred by the Ebola outbreak in 2014—will come to an end, the article said. The CDC "will have to scale its global health security portfolio to focus efforts based ... Flag as irrelevant
	'Nigeria Has No Herbal Industry' THISDAY Newspapers For Ebola, which of course is the most exciting amongst the products we mentioned, is the difficulty in carrying out clinical trials. So we have not tested the product clinically. There is a practical problem with testing Ebola. It is one of the few drugs that are tested in an epidemic situation. Ordinarily, it will be ... Flag as irrelevant
	Women's Show 3/1 The NRA Battles On WMNF In 2014 there were 2 American deaths from the Ebola virus and $1.7 billion allocated to study it. MONA MANGAT, M.D., member and past board chair of Doctors for America, board certified allergist at Bay Area Allergy & Asthma in St. Petersburg, who wrote a wonderful op-ed piece for the Tampa Bay ... Flag as irrelevant
	P3 Program Participants at Work Occupational Health and Safety Examples from recent outbreaks such as H3N2 (flu), Ebola, and Zika viruses highlight the significant lag in deployment and efficacy of life-saving solutions," it said. The P3 performer teams are developing technologies for an end-to-end pandemic response platform and are tasked with developing ... Flag as irrelevant
	Global Health Initiative invites professor to talk about tropical diseases The Trinitonian The diseases, such as hookworm, dracunculus and Ebola, are very old and have existed within these civilizations for centuries. According to Khan, one seventh of the world's population is affected by these diseases. "The U.S. is undergoing a very introspective sort of view of the world — all the money ... Flag as irrelevant
	Congress needs to fully fund health efforts | Letter to the editor Bainbridge Island Review This was illustrated by both the Ebola and Zika outbreaks which did reach our shores. Tuberculosis, though seldom talked, about is always a lurking danger. TB spreads easily (airborne) and though is normally treatable, drug resistant varieties are much more difficult and expensive to treat. Currently ... Flag as irrelevant
	Africa needs preventive approach to health care instead of a curative one: experts Down To Earth Magazine (press release) (blog) Delving into the aspect of private-public partnership (PPP) in healthcare sector in Africa, Gabriel Rugalema, FAO Representative in Kenya cited example of how Sierra Leone fought Ebola crisis through partnerships. There is a huge scope for such partnerships, he says. However, there is a caveat. Flag as irrelevant
	Novavax (NVAX) Stock: Could Be A Massive Win For All Involved! CNA Finance The company is currently working on an RSV vaccine, a vaccine for Ebola, one for Zika, and there's a combination respiratory ailments vaccine in the works. All of these vaccines are ranging in development from preclinical phases to Phase 3 clinical trials. However, the most interesting vaccine that the ... Flag as irrelevant
	DOH top-level revamp begins next week Malaya Duque, who has manned the helm of the DOH during the A(H1N1) pandemic, the melamine-in-milk products controversy, and the Ebola virus threat during his first stint as health secretary, admitted that the Dengvaxia controversy is a "class of its own." "There's never been something like this in the history ... Flag as irrelevant
	2017 Sierra Leone mudslides and the morning after The Punch In August 2017, Sierra Leone had it so bad when more than 1,000 of its citizens were killed by mudslides in a hillside settlement near Freetown, while about 300 buildings were washed away. For a country that was still recovering from the deadly Ebola epidemic, it was a crippling national disaster, both ... Flag as irrelevant
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