The Democratic Republic of Congo is investigating a suspected case of Ebola in its violence-wracked east, the World Health Organization said Saturday, just weeks after the end of a previous epidemic.
Aug 21, 2022
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The World Health Organization said Friday that two existing treatments dramatically reduced deaths from Ebola and should be given to people of all ages suffering from the often-fatal haemorrhagic disease.
Aug 19, 2022
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The European Union's commissioner for health is urging the bloc's governments to step up their efforts to tackle the expanding monkeypox outbreak in the region, which she says is "the epicenter of detected cases."
Jul 27, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have achieved success with a new vaccine developed to fight Lassa Virus, a pathogen that causes Lassa fever. Lassa fever is lethal in humans and nonhuman primates with ...
Jul 19, 2022
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A mysterious disease that killed three people in Tanzania has been identified as leptospirosis or "rat fever", a bacterial infection commonly spread by the rodents, the East African nation's government said Monday.
Jul 18, 2022
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Tanzania has dispatched a team of doctors and health experts to investigate a mysterious disease that has claimed the lives of three people, the government said Wednesday.
Jul 13, 2022
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A research team led by Kyoto University is attempting to take the Marburg virus by its horns using recently gained knowledge of its core structure.
Jul 12, 2022
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The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its latest Ebola outbreak over on Monday, the World Health Organization said, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the country's northwest.
Jul 4, 2022
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Whenever there is an outbreak of a disease in the world—such as monkeypox—it is up to the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider what sort of weight to give it, including whether or not it constitutes a public health ...
Jun 23, 2022
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A specific cell within our retina, the light-sensitive part of our eyes responsible for sending visual information to our brain, appears to be particularly good at housing Ebola and other viruses, new research has found.
Jun 20, 2022
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