Ebola RC News

• U.S. Needs to Improve Oversight of Labs Handling Dangerous Pathogens - Report A year-long audit of the program overseeing U.S. labs that handle lethal pathogens such as Ebola and anthrax found overworked safety inspectors, an absence of independent review and weak biosafety protections that could expose lab workers and the public to harm, a government report will say on October 31.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Want to Know When Ebola Will Strike Next? Look to the Forest
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Ebola Ring Vaccination Strategy May Stymie Rural Outbreaks Successful use of an unlicensed Ebola vaccine to contain a flare-up of Ebola virus disease in Guinea suggests that implementing a ring vaccination strategy may be an effective response to future outbreaks in rural settings.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Motorbikes, Trust and Pepper Soup - Ebola Tips to Tackle Deadly Diseases
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Uganda Confirms One Death From Ebola-like Marburg Virus Uganda has confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the health minister said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• After Ebola, West Africa Must Brace for More Deadly Fevers West Africa is most at risk of fatal hemorrhagic fever epidemics, including Ebola, researchers said on Wednesday, calling for greater preparedness to save lives.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• WCNEbola Survivors Affected by Variety of Neurologic Symptoms Survivors of Ebola virus disease experience a variety of long-term neurologic symptoms and neurologic exam abnormalities, a US-Liberian research partnership has shown.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• US Invests $170 Million in Late-Stage Ebola Vaccines, Drugs The U.S. government is investing more than $170 million to help two new vaccines against the Ebola virus and two Ebola drugs complete the steps needed for approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2017
• After Deadly Mudslide, Sierra Leone Vaccinates Against Cholera
  Reuters Health Information, September 2017
• From Ebola to Mudslides, Sierra Leone Learns Painful Disaster Lessons
  Reuters Health Information, September 2017
• Ebola Virus RNA Can Persist in Semen Years After Infection Ebola virus RNA can be detected in semen more than two years after recovery from acute infection, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2017
• World Bank Launches 'Pandemic Bond' to Tackle Major Outbreaks The World Bank has launched a "pandemic bond" to support an emergency financing facility intended to release money quickly to fight a major health crisis like the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2017
• Safe Burial Methods Averted Thousands of Ebola Deaths Safe burial practices introduced by the Red Cross likely saved thousands of lives during the world’s worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus between 2013 and 2016, researchers said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2017
• British Ebola Nurse Struck by Suffering of Survivors, Orphans After Return to Sierra Leone
  Reuters Health Information, June 2017
• Ebola Epidemic in Congo 'Under Control' -Health Minister Democratic Republic of Congo has not recorded a new case of Ebola in the past 21 days - the maximum incubation period for the disease - and has now begun a period of heightened monitoring, the health minister said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2017
• Zaire Ebola Virus Vaccine Well-Tolerated Through Six Months The recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-Zaire Ebola virus envelope glycoprotein (rVSVdeltaG-ZEBOV-GP) vaccine appears safe in healthy adults, according to six-month safety data.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2017
• Congo Approves Use of Ebola Vaccination to Fight Outbreak Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry has approved the use of a new Ebola vaccine to counter an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in its northeast that has killed four people, a spokesman said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2017
• WHO Votes for a New Leader of Global Health World Health Organization member states began voting on Tuesday for the next director-general, with an Ethiopian candidate vying to be the first African to head the United Nations agency.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2017
• Suspected Ebola Cases in Congo Rise to 29 - WHO The number of suspected Ebola cases in Congo has risen to 29, up from 21, World Health Organization spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2017
• Tackling Ebola Outbreak in Remote Congo Presents Huge Challenge An Ebola outbreak affecting up to 20 people in an extremely remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo presents a high risk at a national level, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2017