BBC Direct contact with infected poultry is considered the main route of human infection by H5N1 Three people have died in the past week after contracting the H5N1 avian influenza virus in Egypt, the country’s health ministry has said. Egypt has now confirmed 11 cases of the virus in people this year, including the six
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By M.H. Idriss, M.D. On a bright monday morning, I was breezing through my routine lecture for a group of medical students spending a few weeks of clinical training in the hospital I work at. As I began the last part of my lecture detailing the treatment of a common disease, I popped a question
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By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC Ebola virus Testing kit A 15-minute blood and saliva test for Ebola is to be trialled in Guinea, it has been announced. The solar-powered, portable laboratory should deliver results six times faster than tests currently used in West Africa. The researchers involved say faster diagnosis would increase the chances
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There are demonstrable links between Intelligent quotient (IQ) of countries, and investment in education and public access to information. For those who know about the education and information technology policies in Ethiopia, it is not surprising that Ethiopia ranks 2nd from the worst in IQ. It is also extremely embarrassing. Countries With The Lowest Average
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By The Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia is attempting to set a world record for the number of HIV tests carried out in one day. The country’s health officials said Tuesday they hope to break the record this coming weekend in honor of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. The previous record for
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(EL-DABBA) – Sudanese authorities and popular bodies have evacuated two thousands Ethiopian nationals from the locality of El-Dabba in the Northern state following discovery of several Hepatitis and AIDS cases among them. The commissioner of El-Dabba locality, Isam Abdel-Rahman, told Sudan Tribune that the security committee in the state conducted a random medical examination for
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By Tom Howell Jr. – The Washington Times The chief of the D.C. Department of Health said Wednesday that ignorance about the Ebola outbreak is causing people to stigmatize the city’s African population. Joxel Garcia said members of the public have posed odd questions and expressed outsized fears about transmission, especially to cab drivers. “When
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By Emily Caldwell COLUMBUS, Ohio – For many, global public health seems like an abstract and distant problem – until the Ebola virus is diagnosed among people in our midst. Though no one would call the Ebola pandemic a good thing, it has presented an opportunity for scientists to alert the public about the dire
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Martin Salia, a Sierra Leonean doctor sick with Ebola, is pictured in this handout photo taken February 2013 Dr Salia, seen here in 2013, had been working in Freetown in Sierra Leone A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospital announced. Martin Salia, who
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All 150,000 hens at the farm in Hekendorp are to be killed The European Commission is discussing protective measures to contain a “highly contagious” strain of bird flu discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands. The measures will include killing all contaminated animals and the cleaning of their holding areas. The Dutch government said
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