Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Montserrado County in Liberia, which includes the capital, Monrovia, recorded over 300 new cases in the week ended Oct 21. One of the country’s challenges has been the lack of laboratories to test for Ebola. The United States Navy opened a new mobile laboratory in Monrovia earlier this month. Note: […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Public health authorities said Friday they hoped to begin trials of Ebola vaccines in disease-ravaged West Africa as early as December and could know around April whether they were effective, clearing the way for possible mass inoculations to stem the epidemic. “Vaccine is not the magic bullet,” Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GALVESTON, Tex. — Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said
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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork The new tool, developed by France’s Atomic Energy Commission, could allow doctors to diagnose a patient with suspected Ebola in under 15 minutes. France’s Atomic Energy Commission said that the device, which has undergone trials at a high-security for validating the technique and prototype, would be available in Ebola-hit countries
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GENEVA — The World Health Organization declaredNigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, officially free ofEbola infections on Monday, calling the outcome the triumphal result of “world class epidemiological detective work.” The announcement came 42 days after the last reported infection in Nigeria’s outbreak, twice the maximum incubation period for the Ebola
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the West African nation of Senegal to be free of Ebola on Friday, a rare success in dealing with a deadly virus that has rampaged uncontrolled in neighboring countries and prompted alarm around the world. Senegal’s achievement came as the health organization was
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Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists who specialize in the disease. Assuming they are correct, and if those people can be identified, they could be a great help in fighting the outbreak. Immune persons could safely tend the sick
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Two potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November and would first be given to health care workers most at risk of exposure to the disease there, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. The organization also announced that blood from recovered Ebola patients and serums
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ANALYSIS In an unprecedented step, the first of its kind in the history of the African Union (AU), the Peace and Security Council (PSC) has decided to deploy a humanitarian mission to help end the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
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“A crisis in the global village needs urgent global response” Interesting article; a cause for concern: Africa: How Africa is Losing the Ebola Battle ANALYSIS By Amadou Mahtar Ba A combination of fear of the Ebola virus, weak public infrastructures in three of the world’s poorest countries, and a slow response by the international public
