Ebola virus News
A fake message states that the Indian government has issued advisory because one of the cold drink company's workers has mixed contaminated blood in it.
The study reveals how the immune system fights off the virus in the instance of influenza A by employing a tiny protein.
The advance teams have been deployed in the affected districts to trace contacts, isolate and provide medical care to people showing symptoms of the disease, details below.
Ugandan health minister Jane Ruth Aceng has asked the citizens to be vigilant and report if they or any of one they know has come in contact with the Ebola-infected person.
Congo has confirmed a new case of the Ebola virus.
The 46-year-old patient was admitted to hospital in late July and died on August 15.
More than 130 high-risk contacts have been identified, of which over 50 remain at large.
Marburg virus has caused two deaths in Ghana and the World Health Organisation has declared it an outbreak in the country
Marburg virus, just like Monkeypox, is also a zoonotic virus or animal-borne virus
The Marburg virus is a is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which can infect humans and animals both
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Ghana’s first outbreak of Marburg virus
The Marburg virus is a is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which infects humans
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever: The VHFs are a group of diseases caused by different viruses, including the Ebola virus.
Congo declared the outbreak of new Ebola on Wednesday of which it may be impossible to use a vaccine to tackle new Ebola virus, said WHO.
Ebola virus disease has a maternal death rate of more than 80 percent and a fetal death rate of nearly 100 percent.
Initially the researchers hope to be able to test it on animals and, in the long term, develop a drug that inhibits the relevant enzyme.
The first known human cases of Ebola occurred in 1976 during two simultaneous outbreaks in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which sickened more than 600 people, according to the World Health Organization.
The research team also observed the detection of Ebola virus RNA in the semen of men who had previously had a negative test of their semen in some cases.
Only mild to moderate side-effects were seen, with only three severe reactions, including headache, diarrhoea and fatigue, which were completely resolved, the researchers said.
The broadly neutralising natural human antibodies were discovered in the blood of a survivor of the 2013-16 ebola outbreak in Western Africa, which caused more than 11,000 deaths and infected over 29,000 people.
WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier today said the number includes two laboratory-confirmed deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thrusday said that health workers are monitoring more than 400 people amid an Ebola outbreak in a remote corner of Congo where already three deaths have been blamed on the deadly virus.
The UN agency said yesterday there are now 11 suspected cases, including three reported deaths, in Likati in Congo's northern Bas-Uele Province. WHO said one death has tested positive for an Ebola strain seen in the country before.
United Nations officials say at least 11 people have died from a mysterious illness in Liberia, and tests have been negative for the Ebola virus.
The trial, conducted by Matthew D. Snape of the University of Oxford and colleagues, enrolled healthy participants aged 18-50 years in Britain.
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