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| Why America Could Become Vulnerable to the Next Major Pandemic We learned this in 2014, with the Ebola crisis. While Ebola is fairly hard to catch, it left more than 11,000 people dead — and served as an enormous wake-up call. Republicans and Democrats in Congress put down their partisan swords. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) told a crowded hearing room on ...
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| UW Waisman Center produces experimental Ebola vaccine It's being led by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka who has studied the Ebola vaccine for more than a decade. "We currently have no treatment for Ebola and we have to come up with something," said Rebecca Moritz, who is a bio-safety expert with the University of Wisconsin. Ebola is a rare, and deadly ... Ebola Virus Vaccine Market Share, Growth by Top Company, Geographical Region, Application ... - Healthcare Journal
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| CDC official who handled Zika and Ebola outbreaks mysteriously missing CDC official who handled Zika and Ebola outbreaks mysteriously missing | 26 Feb 2018 | A respected Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official who worked on the Ebola and Zika outbreaks has disappeared without a trace. He was last seen leaving work midway through the day, saying ... A CDC commander has been missing for 2 weeks — and new details make the case more ... - Business Insider
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| How the Ebola Virus Taught Me About the Gospel Not long after that, he is diagnosed with the highly contagious and nearly always fatal hemorrhagic fever: Ebola has landed on American soil. Do you remember the fear and uncertainty of that time when Ebola moved from being a terrible blight in some exotic overseas locale to one that had arrived on ...
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| Wednesday: Science journalists Jon Cohen, Carl Gierstorfer explain how, why diseases spread On Wednesday's St. Louis on the Air, producer Alex Heuer talks with science journalist Jon Cohen and documentary filmmaker Carl Gierstorfer about their reports on HIV, AIDS and Ebola. Both have received support from the Pulitzer Center for their reporting projects. Their work takes a look at the ...
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| 6 Amazing Scientific Advances Made By Students Olivia Hallisey, age 16, invented a low-cost device that could test for Ebola and retain the results without the need for refrigeration. Her test involves a mix of chemicals that would change color when reacting with a major protein in the Ebola virus. Best of all, her test is inexpensive compared to other tests, ...
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| NPHIL Director General Addresses Confab on Strengthening Public Health Director Nyenswah recalled that it was a result of a weak public health system, which created an Ebola Virus Disease crisis that destroyed the Liberian economy. He said the economic and fiscal impact has outlasted the epidemiological impact led to severe shocks to investment, production, and ...
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| News Scan for Feb 27, 2018 A total of 14 healthcare workers have been infected during this outbreak, 4 of them fatally. Lassa fever is endemic in Nigeria, but this is an unusually large outbreak. The virus, which can cause hemorrhagic symptoms that mimic Ebola, is generally spread through contact with infected rats or via the bodily ...
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| Could heat improve the immune system's response to cancer? By conservative estimates, the microbes living in each human body outnumber our own cells three to one. Most of these trillions of microbes live in harmonious co-existence with our cells, but occasionally something causes a problem – anything from the flu to Ebola – and the body's immune system ...
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| Ketchikan High School wins state Academic Decathlon competition "The science event, they learned about HIV, Ebola and malaria and other infectious diseases. In social science, they learned about the history of West Africa and they also had art and music, focusing on all sorts of African art and African music." Eight Ketchikan team members will travel to Texas in April ...
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| Novel genome platform reveals new HIV targets "Identifying Vpu target proteins creates an opportunity to find new drugs that block the interaction, potentially preserving host anti-viral proteins and limiting HIV infection. Importantly, the system can be equally applied to other infectious diseases that evade the immune system, such as Ebola, influenza, ...
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| More Refugees, Less Aid Spell Disaster for Zambia ... three Zambian election-monitoring nonprofits to police for misappropriation of aid money. A chilling effect on aid could push Zambia into crisis — especially if outbreaks of Ebola and cholera in Congo follow the refugees — and the country's leaders are desperately calling for more international support.
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| Vodafone Foundation To Provide Mobile Phone Data To Government Of Ghana To Help Track ... "Vodafone is partnering with the government of Ghana to share the movements of its customers to help track and contain the spread of epidemics such as the Ebola virus. The charitable arm of the mobile phone company said it would provide real-time tracking data from its 8.7 million customers in Ghana ...
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| Vodafone helps Ghana fight epidemics Mobile data will be used in Ghana to track and control epidemics, helping prevent a repeat of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, in a pioneering programme announced by Vodafone Foundation yesterday. The initiative will use aggregated anonymised mobile data to track real-time trends in ...
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| DARPA names Pandemic, Prevention, Platform program research teams P3 was launched last year in response to the lack of preventative or therapeutic solutions to Ebola, Zika, and other outbreaks. It aims to identify infectious diseases and develop preventative measures and nucleic-acid-based technologies in 60 days or less to prevent them from escalating into pandemics.
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| Lost Art Of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines I first noticed this mysterious bending style in 2014 while covering the Ebola outbreak. We were driving on a back road in the rain forest of Liberia and every now and then, we would pass women working in their gardens. The women had striking silhouettes: They were bent over with their backs nearly ...
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| Plagues and people in the modern world The students were taken on an informative journey through the evolution of human pathogens, the impact modern life has on the spread of disease, along with case studies including SARS, influenza, Ebola and the Zika virus. "Sir Roy answered many questions from the science students, explaining ...
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