Ebola Vaccine

Measles – More Deadly Than Ebola According to Patrick Guilfoile

Written on April 27, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which started in 2014, has claimed more than 10,000 lives so far. The Ebola virus causes a frightening illness with symptoms including fever, vomiting, and bleeding. In this most recent epidemic, nearly half the people known to be infected with the virus have died. Although the epidemic shows signs of waning, there is great concern about additional health problems in West Africa. Once Ebola hit, many health care...

Russian Scientists Started Testing 4 Ebola Vaccines on Primates

Written on March 19, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

Four Ebola virus vaccines developed by Russian scientists are ready and being tested on primates. “All the four vaccines are ready. Tests on primates have already begun,” said Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova on Tuesday. Anna Popova, head of Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said that the agency has began testing a vaccine for the Ebola virus. Popova was cited as saying that successful testing of the vaccine will enable...

New Ebola Vaccine Trials Will Be Tested in Guinea by WHO

Written on March 6, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will begin conducting Ebola vaccination trials in Guinea this week, which if found effective, could be the “game-changer to finally end the epidemic” that has affected nearly 24,000 people, mostly in West Africa. “We have worked hard to reach this point,” WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, said in Geneva. “There has been massive mobilization on the part of the affected countries...

Fujifilm’s Flu Drug Turned Ebola Drug Avigan Proven Effective

Written on March 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Government News, Health News, World News.

Fujifilm Holdings Corp.’s drug Avigan, which has shown signs of efficacy against the Ebola virus, has drawn interest from about 20 countries and the company stands ready for large orders, its chief executive said. “We can provide as much as we are asked for,” said Shigetaka Komori in an interview Friday. The company has enough of the drug’s basic ingredient on hand to manufacture pills for 300,000 people and will ramp up production if necessary,...

Ebola Vaccine: Human Antibodies Target Marburg & Ebola Viruses

Written on February 26, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

One step closer to Ebola vaccine: Researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The Scripps Research Institute for the first time have shown how human antibodies can neutralize the Marburg virus, a close cousin to Ebola. Their findings, published this week in two papers in the journal Cell, should speed development of the first effective treatment and vaccine against these often lethal viruses, said...

What Are You Not Being Told About The Ebola Virus?

Written on February 17, 2015. Posted in Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety.

The information I’m about to present here is frightening. There’s really no way around that. However, I request that you do your very best to maintain a calm state of mind. Right now in West Africa the worst Ebola outbreak in history is in full swing and is jumping borders at an alarming rate. Already it has spread to four countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Nigeria. This latest jump into Nigeria is particularly serious...

Don’t Get Your Hopes Up on Ebola Vaccines – Warn Scientists

Written on February 17, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

A team of leading international scientists on Tuesday called for new Ebola vaccines to be made available in months rather than years and warned against complacency after a reduction in infection rates. “Despite falling infection rates in West Africa, the risk that the current Ebola outbreak may not be brought completely under control remains,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s biggest medical charity....

13 Crucial Things You Need to Know About Ebola Virus

Written on February 12, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, World News.

As a deadly Ebola epidemic spreads across western Africa, world leaders are scrambling to find solutions. Here’s what you need to know about the disease and the havoc it is wreaking: 1. Ebola is primarily ravaging the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Senegal. Authorities in these nations have scrambled to contain the disease. In Sierra Leone, the government quarantined a third of the entire population — about...

Ebola Care Centers in Liberia nearly empty as Outbreak fades

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country’s success in halting new infections. “We have five confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia as of today,” said Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia’s Ebola taskforce. “It means that we are going down to zero,...

Ebola Drugs Could be Obsolete Before They’re Available

Written on January 20, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Treatments.

New treatments for Ebola could be obsolete before they are available for use by patients, because of genetic mutations in the disease, scientists have warned. They said they’d found 10 new mutations that might interfere with how three of the most advanced drugs work against Ebola. The drugs, including the experimental ZMapp given to several Ebola survivors, should be tested against the current strain, the researchers said. Experimental drugs...

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