The acute outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has subsided in West Africa, but the medical community continues to learn about long-term complications for survivors – including the potential for blinding eye disease. One ...
Jan 16, 2017
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Scientists have found potential evidence of Ebola virus replication in the lungs of a person recovering from infection, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens. The findings could aid research into new treatment ...
Jan 5, 2017
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Ebola virus is one of a variety of viruses that causes a disease that comes under the general heading of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF). Since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa much has been done to further understand the ...
Dec 13, 2016
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It was a December day like any other in the village of Meliandou: a remote outcrop in the densely forested region of southern Guinea. A young boy named Emile Ouamouno was playing by a tree filled with fruit bats.
Nov 11, 2016
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) could become a serious public health threat in West Africa unless effective surveillance and control measures are implemented, according to a study published in the open access journal ...
Nov 2, 2016
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An international study, led by the University of Southampton, shows the UK and France experience the highest number of malaria cases imported from other countries.
Oct 25, 2016
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A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been hospitalized for a fourth time.
Oct 6, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Parasites that cause sleeping sickness can be found on the skin of people with no symptoms of the disease, a new study finds.
Oct 4, 2016
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Rigorous evidence of 'what works' to improve health care is in demand, but methods for the development of interventions have not been scrutinized in the same ways as methods for evaluation. The article "Examining Intervention ...
Jul 13, 2016
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Guinea-Bissau has recorded three cases of Zika, becoming the second country in West Africa where the dangerous viral disease has been detected, the government said on Saturday.
Jul 3, 2016
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