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| The Report: Opinion In the case of the Ebola outbreak, proactive U.S leadership helped to avoid a worst-case scenario of 1.4 million infections in four months. Early action also lowered the risk of infection among U.S. citizens, and reduced the chance of a viral mutation, which could have had terrifying consequences.
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| Five myths about outbreaks The WHO warns that several emerging pathogens with few or no medical countermeasures may cause havoc in the near future, including such nasty ones as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, MERS and SARS coronavirus diseases, Nipah, and Rift Valley ...
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| Five myths about disease outbreaks In 2014, when the Ebola epidemic raged in Africa, pundits called it the "ISIS of biological agents," the president sent troops to Africa and Congress held hearings. Yes, Ebola is an incurable, often-lethal malady with no licensed vaccine, but it's hard to transmit from person to person and an unlikely ...
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| What's at stake in Sierra Leone's critical elections In 2015, for instance, the president sacked his popular deputy, Sam Sumana, in the middle of the Ebola epidemic. The regional ECOWAS court later ruled that Koroma had acted unconstitutionally and the state should pay damages. Then, as his second term approached its end, Koroma's supporters ...
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| Undergraduate awarded national Newman Civic Fellowship for work in global health Koch plans to spend the upcoming summer doing research that will look at female health-seeking behavior in hospitals following the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, which currently has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. She said research will be unlike any of the field experiences that she ...
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| The Global Virome Project Is Hunting Hundreds of Thousands of Deadly Viruses But by studying the disease vectors of previous outbreaks like Ebola, SARS, and Zika, scientists believe they can eventually track down all potentially dangerous viruses before they spill over into human populations. Ideally, the GVP's aggressive approach will essentially stop outbreaks before they even ...
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| I-10 Eastbound at Shepherd Closed All Weekend For everyone who does live here, your best bet is to avoid it like it was quarantined for Ebola. Use the North Loop or, if you dare, the West Loop around to U.S. 69 through the Med Center. Although, even with that whole area open, I'm not sure how much better it will be, the 610/69 interchange being what ...
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| Op-Ed: Six months after Hurricane Harvey, churches play a vital role in disaster recovery In 2014 and 2015, the church played a key role in combating the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Living Water worked with churches in Liberia and Sierra Leone, training pastors with life-saving public health messages around traditional mourning and burial practices to share with their congregations.
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| New Report: Funding for Public Health Has Declined Significantly since the Great Recession "A healthy United States is a strong United States. A prepared nation is a safe nation. But persistent underfunding of the country's public health system has left the nation vulnerable," said John Auerbach, president and CEO, of TFAH. "The country needs a long-term commitment to rebuild the nation's ...
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| 'FIND Performed Remarkably Well in 2017' -Roosevelt Woods With the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), he said FIND also implemented a number of projects, including supporting and strengthening the Post-Ebola Surveillance and Social-Economic Recovery Initiative in Liberia project, the strengthening of the Transparency, ...
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| Strange case of missing top scientist Dr Tim Cunningham The 35-year-old Morehouse and Harvard-educated epidemiologist is a commander in the US Health Service Corps and part of his job is responding to public health emergencies such as outbreaks of the zika and Ebola viruses, or natural disasters. Advertisement. Advertise with NZME. Cunningham's ... MISSING! CDC scientist vanishes without a trace after being passed over for promotion, police say - CrimeOnline
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| Donors Must Closely Monitor Grants to NGOs Just late last year, an audit report emerged about misapplication of about US$2 million in the realm of the Liberia National Red Cross Society during the Ebola crisis. These instances leave no doubt that though NGOs are established with the objective of meeting certain needs of the greater number of ...
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| CBP Celebrates 15 Years ... 2012 and joining the federal response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014. What follows are a few highlights of CBP's endeavors to keeping America safe. 2003 – President George W. Bush proposed to create the Department of Homeland Security subsequently forming U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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| Dr. Joshua Loomis Publishes Book: Epidemics and Their Impacts are Highlighted There are whole books about ebola, for instance," Loomis said. "But I just find that people may be interested to know a little about everything. It was hard picking the ten worst." Moments of self-doubt would inevitably come in writing a book over 300 pages. There were times when Loomis thought about ...
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| 5 deadly diseases and conditions that cannot be cured Ebola Disease. The disease is caused by the Ebola Virus. The ailment has claimed that lives of many persons in Africa and the entire world. The outbreak of the disease was first witnessed in primates such as chimpanzee and Gorilla before human beings. The disease's symptoms include extreme fever, ...
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| 5 deadly diseases that can kill in 24 hours Ebola has no cure. The disease can also kill you in less than 24 hours if no medication is sought. Over 70 percent of the patients with this disease normally dies. It is spread through fluids in your body. The human white cells normally rapture hence leading to internal bleeding. Patients can also bleed ...
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| Lassa Fever: GHS urges public not to panic following confirmed case The Medical Director of the Tema General Hospital, Dr. Kwabena Opoku Adusei has assured residents of Tema of no cause for alarm with the recorded case of Lassa fever at the Tema General Hospital. He said the medical team at the Infectious Disease Center, formerly the Ebola center is on top of ...
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| Novavax Gets a Buy Rating from B.Riley FBR ... in the provision of development of recombinant nanoparticle vaccines and adjuvants. Its product pipeline targets infectious diseases with vaccine candidates in clinical development for respiratory syncytial virus, seasonal influenza, pandemic influenza, and Ebola virus. Facebook Twitter Google+ Email.
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| Chilton Capital Management Has Upped Its Retail Opportunity Invts Cor (ROIC) Holding ... ... for HIV/AIDS. It currently has negative earnings. It is also developing HerpeCide, a skin cream or gel formulation for the treatment of oral and genital herpes lesions; anti-viral eye drops against external eye viral infections; and other research programs against Rabies virus, Ebola, and Marburg viruses.
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