http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A senior health ministry official in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday ruled out an Ebola outbreak in the northeast of the country, after possible cases were reported by United Nations staff. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-health-ebola-outbreak-dr-congo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:30:01 EST news289464648 (AP)—The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn't necessary. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-yellow-fever-shot.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 May 2013 10:40:01 EST news288003953 Since the mid-nineteenth century, maps have helped elucidate the deadly mysteries of diseases like cholera and yellow fever. Yet today's global mapping of infectious diseases is considerably unreliable and may do little to inform the control of potential outbreaks, according to a new systematic mapping review of all clinically important infectious diseases known to humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-tools-global-infectious-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:27:01 EST news279188811 An outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed at least 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region is Africa's worst in decades, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-darfur-yellow-fever-outbreak-worst.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:06:26 EST news274021577 A rare outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region in the past three months continues to spread, the UN warned on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-darfur-yellow-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:33:45 EST news274001616 US Navy medical experts have arrived in Sudan to help analyse samples of suspected yellow fever, which has killed 127 people in the Darfur region since early September, health officials said on Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-yellow-fever-hit-darfur-navy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:43:57 EST news272897029 Health workers in Sudan's Darfur region have begun vaccinating more than two million people against a rare yellow fever outbreak suspected of killing 124 since late September, medics said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-yellow-fever-shots-sudan-darfur.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:42:40 EST news272803349 (AP)—Sudan has launched a massive vaccination campaign to immunize 2.4 million people against an outbreak of yellow fever in the restive region of Darfur, the U.N. said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-sudan-vaccinate-yellow-fever-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:24:48 EST news272535873 (AP)—A yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 107 people in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday, warning that the disease could spread all over the country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dead-yellow-fever-darfur-sudan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:10:01 EST news272048140 More than two million people in Sudan's Darfur region will be vaccinated against a rare yellow fever outbreak suspected of killing 107 people since late September, health officials said on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-millions-yellow-fever-vaccine-outbreak-hit.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:16:05 EST news272002539 The number of people believed to have died from mosquito-borne yellow fever in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region has doubled to 67, health officials said on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-darfur-yellow-fever-deaths-agency.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:58:02 EST news271436266 Mosquito-born yellow fever has killed 32 people in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region this month, the health ministry said in a statement obtained by AFP on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-yellow-fever-sudan-darfur-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:05:11 EST news270965098 (Medical Xpress)—While the United States has largely been spared the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases endemic to the developing world—including yellow fever, malaria and dengue fever—mosquito-related illnesses in the US are on the rise. One pathogen of increasing concern in the U.S. is an arbovirus known as West Nile. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-accurate-low-cost-alternative-diagnosis-west.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:30:04 EST news270314240 New research by University of Warwick historian Dr Tim Lockley has found why yellow fever had a green bias in 19th century fever outbreaks in the southern states of the US. Almost half of the 650 people killed by yellow fever in Savannah Georgia in 1854 were Irish immigrants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-green-biased-yellow-fever-swept.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:42:31 EST news263475736 (Medical Xpress) -- Professors at Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado are developing a drug that can stop replication of West Nile, dengue and yellow fever viruses that continue to plague two-thirds of the world's population with no clinically useful antiviral drugs available. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-drug-combat-west-nile-virus.html Medical research Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:50:01 EST news258356405 A compound initially isolated from sharks shows potential as a unique broad-spectrum human antiviral agent, according to a study led by a Georgetown University Medical Center investigator and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition online September 19. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-shark-compound-potential-drug-human.html Medical research Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:00:42 EST news235662656 The British Empire depended on its navy to survive and grow. For its operational success, the Royal Navy in turn depended on the health of its sailors, who were frequently exposed to ‘exotic’ and dangerous new infections. At the University of Oxford, a team of researchers are exploring naval health in the 19th century and the contribution of naval officers to Victorian medicine. By Penny Bailey. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-victorian-naval-medicine.html Other Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:33:01 EST news232795961