Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever)

Russian scientists develop Ebola vaccine

Russian researchers have developed a candidate vaccine to protect against the deadly Ebola virus which will soon undergo human clinical trials in Africa.

Publication Date:

30/12/2014

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Russia, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Medical Research, Health Effects, Health, WHO

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China to test Ebola vaccine on humans

China on Thursday said it has developed a vaccine to combat the spread of deadly Ebola virus that has killed more than 7,000 people in three West African countries, and the test of the drug on huma

Publication Date:

26/12/2014

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

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China, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Vaccination, Health

Food Policy

Food Assistance Outlook Brief, December 2014

This brief summarizes FEWS NET’s most forward-looking analysis of projected emergency food assistance needs in FEWS NET coverage countries. The projected size of each country’s acutely food insecure population is compared to last year and the recent five-year average.

Publication Date:

17/12/2014

Source: FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Tags:

Food Security, Conflicts, Africa, Afghanistan, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Food Supply

Health

Too big to ail

PERCHED on a hill in Geneva above the city’s cluster of international agencies, the modernist headquarters of the World Health Organisation (WHO, pictured above) seems a manifestation of the organi

Publication Date:

13/12/2014

Source: Economist (London)

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WHO, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Health Care, Africa

Health

World Bank Gives Additional U.S$115 Million for Ebola Fight, Others

Monrovia — The World Bank has signed an additional US$115M financing grant agreement of the Ebola Emergency Response Project with the Government of Liberia (GoL).

Publication Date:

26/11/2014

Source: All Africa

Tags:

Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Infectious Diseases, Liberia, World Bank, Africa

Health

Elucidating variations in the nucleotide sequence of Ebola virus associated with increasing pathogenicity

Ebolaviruses cause a severe and often fatal haemorrhagic fever in humans, with some species such as Ebola virus having case fatality rates approaching 90%. Currently, the worst Ebola virus outbreak since the disease was discovered is occurring in West Africa. Although thought to be a zoonotic infection, a concern is that with increasing numbers of humans being infected, Ebola virus variants could be selected which are better adapted for human-to-human transmission.

Publication Date:

22/11/2014

Author(s): Stuart D Dowall, David A Matthews, Isabel García-Dorival & et al

Source: Genome Biology

Vol:

15

Issue:

11

pp:

1-12

Tags:

Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Africa, Viral Diseases

Health

Ebola threat: 17 under home surveillance

Health department has constituted rapid response teams

The district has 17 people under home surveillance as part of precautionary measures taken against Ebola virus threat.

Publication Date:

21/11/2014

Source: Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)

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Kerala, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Kochi, Health Effects, Health

Health

The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic: short- and medium-term estimates for West Africa

Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty.

Publication Date:

20/11/2014

Source: The World Bank

Tags:

Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Epidemics, Africa, Health Effects, GDP, Diseases

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