Tagged as: Ebola
Exotic Diseases Spread To Poorest Places In America
Evidence shows that exotic illnesses not usually found in the United States are popping up in the poorest areas of the nation.Known as neglected tropical diseases, these parasites and bacteria affect 1 billion people globally, according to the Centers ...
Single-Dose Ebola Vaccine is Effective
Researchers, doctors and politicians across the globe have been working to put an end to the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa and killed almost 10,000 people in 2014. As scientists attempted to discover the best preventative option, certain vaccine ...
Blood Transfusions Potential Cure for Ebola
The military hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, conducted a controlled clinical trial in which 35 ebola patients received blood transfusions from donors who survived the disease. Though comparisons with the control arm of the study are not currently avail...
New WHO Regional Director For Africa Plans To Terminate Ebola
The Ebola epidemic in 2014 represents the largest outbreak of the deadly disease in the recorded history of mankind. The devastating illness has killed more than 10,000 people and affected more than 22,000.While the virus sprinted through West African ...
Three Promising Ebola Vaccinations are in the Works
As headlines shift away from the Ebola outbreak that flourished in 2014, it’s easy to forget the disease that "sickened more than 200,000 people in West Africa, and killed at least 8,200, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)."Although curre...
The Ebola Vaccine Debate: Ethics and Profit
Ebola Debate
Turn on the news and chances are you will be hear about the Ebola virus.The 2014 Ebola epidemic is noted as the largest in history, especially affecting West African countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. And with 13,567 people known to ...