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(AP)—Scores of Ugandans were isolated on Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-scores-isolated-ebola-outbreak-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:29:44 EST news272208560 Could pigs be an unexpected source for transmitting the deadly Ebola virus? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-canada-lab-probes-pig-link.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:10:01 EST news272198526 A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in central Uganda has killed at least two people, the health minister said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dead-outbreak-ebola-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:31:19 EST news272172643 (AP)—Ugandan officials say a new outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever has killed at least two Ugandans in a district near the capital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ebola-outbreak-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:27:53 EST news272132861 (Medical Xpress)—A genetics research team led by Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University has published a paper in the journal Science, suggesting that some infectious diseases that are thought to be relatively new, may in fact have been around for thousands of years. They claim they have genetic evidence that shows that some diseases such as Ebola and Lassa, which some believe first began infecting people in just the past half century, likely have been around for hundreds and in some cases thousands of years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-emerging-infectious-diseases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:40:02 EST news271671560 An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has stabilised, with no new deaths or cases in more than a week, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-ebola-outbreak-dr-congo-stabilises.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:10:10 EST news270204757 While it may be that some Americans doubt we're related to chimps and other primates, viruses recognize the similarities in our cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-viruses-species-rapidly.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:20:01 EST news270148208 An outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in a remote region in western Uganda has so far killed four people, the health ministry said in a statement. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-marburg-fever-uganda-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 EST news269865505 Saudi Arabia has banned Muslims from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda from making the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca this year because of cholera and Ebola epidemics in the region, a Congolese religious leader said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-drcongo-uganda-muslims-mecca-ebola.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:30:01 EST news269785051 A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-ebola-antibody-treatment-monkeys-lethal.html Medical research Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:00:13 EST news269520865 Uganda on Thursday declared an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that killed 17 people dead to be over, officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-uganda-ebola-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:41:43 EST news268569603 An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 36 people, out of 81 suspected cases, according to a new death toll released by the health ministry on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dr-congo-ebola-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:50:01 EST news268295525 Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-animals-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:34:07 EST news268025628 An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 33 people, while the number of suspected cases has risen, the health ministry said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-dr-congo-health-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:01 EST news267959765 An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have claimed up to 32 lives since May, including that of a woman who had just given birth, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-dr-congo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:41:08 EST news267169260 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola virus. These viruses cause similar diseases and are some of the deadliest pathogens on the planet, each killing up to 90 percent of those infected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-reveal-deadly-marburg-virus.html Medical research Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:00:09 EST news266763744 An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever has claimed possibly as many as 31 lives in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo since May, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said Thurday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-deaths-dr-congo-minister.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:08:40 EST news266760509 The legacy of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 goes beyond the resultant war on terror and continued fighting in Afghanistan to include lies about public health threats at the time, ongoing health problems today, and a public health system that may be less secure in the present and future, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ongoing-health-issues-opportunities.html Health Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:31:47 EST news266571100 (Medical Xpress)—A more coordinated approach to surveillance is required if emerging diseases which can spread from animals to humans are to be tackled, say scientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-approach-tackle-emerging-zoonotic-diseases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:27:49 EST news266477179 The United Nations appealed Wednesday for $2 million (1.6 million euros) to fight an epidemic of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed 14 people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-2mn-deadly-ebola-outbreak-dr.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:36:44 EST news266081794 The number of people with Ebola, a rare haemorrhagic disease, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tripled since mid-August, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday, after 14 patients died in two weeks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-caseload-soars-eastern-dr.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:50:02 EST news265983897 Uganda's latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus appears to be over, the World Health Organisation said Monday, pointing out that no new cases had been confirmed for the past month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-uganda-ebola-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:53:57 EST news265888410 (AP) — The World Health Organization says an outbreak of suspected Ebola in eastern Congo has infected at least 15 people, 10 of whom died. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-people-die-ebola-congo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:33:09 EST news264875577 Nine people have died in an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Minister Felix Kabangue said on Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ebola-outbreak-dr-congo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:53:42 EST news264552804 A targeted approach to treating toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease, shows early promise in test-tube and animal studies, where it prevented the parasites from making selected proteins. When tested in newly infected mice, it reduced the number of viable parasites by more than 90 percent, researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-antisense-approach-treatment-parasitic-infections.html Medical research Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:03:45 EST news264088963 (AP) — Doctors were slow to respond to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda because symptoms weren't always typical, but a World Health Organization official said Friday that authorities are halting the spread of the deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ebola-uganda.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:33:00 EST news263205160 (AP) — The aid group Doctors Without Borders says the first victim of the latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda was a 3-month-old girl and that of the 65 people who attended her funeral, 15 later contracted the deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ebola-widely-funeral-victim.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:00:01 EST news263137585 At least 15 people have died in Uganda from the deadly Ebola virus with the toll likely to rise further, the health ministry said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ebola-deaths-uganda-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:04:48 EST news263037882 Kampala residents have been urged to avoid contact after the deadly Ebola virus hit the city but security guard Joseph Karuba's job is to frisk people and he doesn't have gloves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ebola-kampala.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:30:01 EST news262952458 (AP) — Six more patients suspected to have Ebola have been admitted to the hospital days after investigators confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious disease in a remote corner of western Uganda, a health official said on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ugandans-ebola.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:34:05 EST news262863234