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The Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic | Helen Clark
Outbreaks spread before confirmation, showing a willingness gap in anticipating, preventing, and using precaution despite response capacity.
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21 hours agoThe Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic | Helen Clark
Outbreaks spread before confirmation, showing a willingness gap in anticipating, preventing, and using precaution despite response capacity.
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fromCN Traveller
2 days agoIs it safe to travel to East Africa amid the Ebola outbreak? Cases in Uganda and DRC put Kenya on high alert
Bundibugyo virus disease causes severe symptoms and spreads via direct contact with bodily fluids, with no approved strain-specific vaccines or targeted treatments.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day agoNo Ebola vaccines exist for the strain in the current outbreak, but scientists are developing some
About 50 confirmed Ebola cases, 600 suspected cases, and 130 suspected deaths are being investigated in DRC and Uganda as a Bundibugyo outbreak expands.
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fromCN Traveller
2 days agoIs it safe to travel to East Africa amid the Ebola outbreak? Cases in Uganda and DRC put Kenya on high alert
Bundibugyo virus disease causes severe symptoms and spreads via direct contact with bodily fluids, with no approved strain-specific vaccines or targeted treatments.
#public-health-emergency
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoThe Guardian view on tackling Ebola: pathogens aren't the only things that kill | Editorial
WHO declared the 17th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern due to regional spread risk and control challenges.
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2 days agoEbola in the DRC needs the world's attention now if your neighbour's house is on fire, you don't wait and watch | Devi Sridhar
WHO declared the DRC Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern due to hundreds of suspected cases, variant-specific challenges, and high mortality risk.
fromNature
3 days agoDaily briefing: Mouse eyes can photosynthesize after a plant-to-animal transplant
Photosynthetic machinery can be harvested from spinach and transplanted into the eyes of mice, where it transforms light into molecules that carry energy and can tame inflammation. To see how this approach might someday translate into therapeutic applications, researchers made drops, containing light-harvesting apparatus from spinach ( Spinacia oleraceae) cells, that soothed dry-eye disease in mice.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days agoWHO to hold emergency committee meeting as Ebola death toll rises to 131
The toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to an estimated 131 deaths from 513 suspected cases, Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba says. Previous figures from the epidemic, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an international health emergency, were 91 people dead out of 350 suspected cases.
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3 days agoInfectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts
Infectious disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent and damaging, outpacing preparedness investment amid climate crisis, conflict, and geopolitical fragmentation.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days agoDRC faces deadly Ebola resurgence amid worsening humanitarian crisis
The new Ebola outbreak has been reported in the towns of Rwampara, Mongwalu, and Bunia in northeastern DRC. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a new Ebola outbreak just five months after declaring its previous epidemic over. The Bundibugyo strain, a type of Ebola virus first identified in neighbouring Uganda, is highly lethal and is spreading rapidly across the northeastern province of Ituri, including the health zones of Rwampara, Mongwalu and Bunia.
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6 months agoWaiting for the all-clear: how medics and villagers rallied when Ebola returned to DRC
His two-year-old daughter died first, then his mother, then his wife. But Bope Mpona Heritier still had no idea what illness had taken their lives. Then the 25-year-old also began to develop symptoms. When his blood was tested and sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital, Kinshasa, the results confirmed he had the Ebola virus. I felt pain everywhere, he says. I had a migraine, a sharp pain in my eyes and throat, and I was vomiting.
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fromwww.npr.org
6 months agoSneaky viruses can hide in your body and bounce back even if you're cured
The human body holds several effective hiding spots that some of the world's nastiest viruses have discovered like the eyes and the testes that are beyond the reach of the immune system. It's here that submicroscopic viral RNA can safely linger. Often the human hosts have no idea. They'd fallen ill, then appeared to beat the virus. Their blood tested negative. They show no symptoms.
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