Washington Examiner BY PAUL BEDARD The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected. While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United
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BBC By James Gallagher The first patient was injected with the vaccine last week. Vaccinated monkeys have developed “long-term” immunity to the Ebola virus, raising a prospect of successful human trials, say scientists. The experiments by the US National Institutes of Health showed immunity could last at least 10 months. Human trials of the vaccine
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BBC By James Gallagher Blood from people who had Ebola could be used as a treatment The blood of patients who recover from Ebola should be used to treat others, the World Health Organization has announced. West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died. A global
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By James Gallagher BBC Ebola virus genetics The only clinical trial data on the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp shows it is 100% effective in monkey studies, even in later stages of the infection. The researchers, publishing their data in Nature, said it was a “very important step forward”. Yet the limited supplies will not help
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BBC More than 240 health workers have been infected with Ebola in West Africa Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. A further 70 people are under surveillance in the city, while his wife has been put under quarantine. He died last Friday
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BBC Medecins Sans Frontieres says the outbreak will take at least six months to bring under control Kenyan officials say the country is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak. Kenya’s health secretary said Kenyans and medical workers flying in from those states would
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African Spotlight An experimental drug for treatment of Ebola has been provided by a Nigerian in diaspora and will arrive the country today, the minister for health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said. The drug, called “Nanosilver”, can now be used following the approval by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that experimental treatments are ethical in the
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BBC The current outbreak is the deadliest since Ebola was discovered in 1976 The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a “high-risk” country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said. This is
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BBC The current outbreak is the deadliest since Ebola was discovered in 1976 The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a “high-risk” country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said. This is
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Anadolu Agency “So far no Ebola case was reported in Ethiopia,” Abel Yeshaneh, spokesperson for the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia has denied reports of the spread of Ebola in the country, saying steps were being taken to raise awareness about the deadly virus. “So far no Ebola
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