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'Ebola cure, vaccine breakthrough may be in January 2015'

Renowned Virologists and President of Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) Prof.

Publication Date: 
09/09/2014
Guardian (Nigeria)
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Nigeria, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Vaccination, Medical Research
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Ebola crisis: Liberia 'faces huge surge' says WHO

Health workers, wearing Personal Protective Equipment, arrive with a potentially contaminated patient at Elwa hospital in Monrovia (7 September 2014).

Publication Date: 
09/09/2014
BBC (UK)
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Africa, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Liberia, WHO
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Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a complex zoonosis that is highly virulent in humans. The largest recorded outbreak of EVD is ongoing in West Africa, outside of its previously reported and predicted niche. We assembled location data on all recorded zoonotic transmission to humans and Ebola virus infection in bats and primates (1976-2014). Using species distribution models, these occurrence data were paired with environmental covariates to predict a zoonotic transmission niche covering 22 countries across Central and West Africa.

Publication Date: 
08/09/2014
David M Pigott, Nick Golding, Adrian Mylne & et al
eLife
1-48
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Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Africa, Animal Diseases
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Ebola Fight Gets $250 Million U.S., Europe Funding Boost

U.S.

Publication Date: 
05/09/2014
Bloomberg
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Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Infectious Diseases, Africa, WHO, Europe, United States Of America (US)
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U.N. says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola as deaths top 1,900

The United Nations said $600 million(364.52 million British pound) in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus top

Publication Date: 
04/09/2014
Reuters
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Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Infectious Diseases, WHO, Africa, Diseases, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone
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J&J Ebola vaccine to start clinical trials in early 2015

Scientists will fast-track tests on another Ebola vaccine, this time from Johnson & Johnson, in another sign that the world's worst outbreak of the virus is mobilising research into the deadly

Publication Date: 
04/09/2014
Reuters
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Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Drugs, Africa, Diseases, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea
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Nigerian Ebola cases rise to 18, deaths up to 7

Nigeria now has 18 Ebola cases, after a fourth case surfaced in Port Harcourt, home to Africa's biggest oil and gas industry, the health minister said on Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
04/09/2014
Reuters
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Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Infectious Diseases, Nigeria, Africa
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Evidence that ebolaviruses and cuevaviruses have been diverging from marburgviruses since the Miocene

An understanding of the timescale of evolution is critical for comparative virologybut remains elusive for many RNA viruses. Age estimates based on mutation rates can severely underestimate divergences for ancient viral genes that are evolving under strong purifying selection. Paleoviral dating, however, can provide minimum age estimates for ancient divergence, but few orthologous paleoviruses are known within clades of extant viruses.

Publication Date: 
02/09/2014
Derek J. Taylor, Matthew J. Ballinger, Jack J. Zhan & et al
PeerJ
1-18
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Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Research
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Poor response to Ebola causing needless deaths – World Bank head

The world's "disastrously inadequate response" to West Africa's Ebola outbreak means many people are dying needlessly, the head of the World Bank said on Monday, as Nigeria confirmed another case o

Publication Date: 
02/09/2014
Reuters
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Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Infectious Diseases, Africa, Nigeria, World Bank, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia
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Nigeria records another Ebola case in oil city, 17 cases total

Nigeria has a third confirmed case of Ebola in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 17, with 271 people under surveillance, the health minister said on

Publication Date: 
02/09/2014
Reuters
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Health, Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Infectious Diseases, Nigeria, Africa, WHO, Diseases, Liberia

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