Ebola News

• How the World Health Organization Might Face Future Pandemics Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics will begin at the World Health Organization, with a target date of May 2024 for a treaty to be adopted by the UN health agency's member countries.
  Reuters Health Information, February 24, 2022
• 'In the Presence of Kindness': Humanitarian Paul Farmer Dies Farmer spent his adult life focused on global health. He died Monday in Rwanda at age 62.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2022
• New Nanosensor Assay Detects Viruses Like SARS-CoV-2 and Ebola Will "Nano2RED" prove to be better than old standbys ELISA and PCR?
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2022
• Testes May 'Serve as Viral Sanctuary' for SARS-CoV-2: Small Study Questions arise as to whether COVID-19 could be spread by semen. If larger studies support the conclusions, the findings could have implications for reproductive health.
  Medscape Medical News, February 10, 2022
• ACIP Recommends Universal HBV Vaccination for Adults Under 60 Will the universal recommendation help reinvigorate stalling declines in hepatitis B infections over the past decade?
  Medscape Medical News, November 04, 2021
• Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It's 100% Preventable. The United States' inability to curb a treatable sexually transmitted disease shows the failures of a cash-strapped public health system. Increasingly, newborns are paying the price.
  ProPublica, November 01, 2021
• Three New Ebola Cases Confirmed in Eastern Congo Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to five in the last 10 days, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• Second Ebola Case Confirmed in Eastern Congo, Health Official Says A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo, a health official said on Thursday, a week after a young boy died of the disease.
  Reuters Health Information, October 14, 2021
• New Ebola Case Confirmed in Eastern Congo: Lab Report A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal report on Friday from the national biomedical laboratory, 5 months after the end of the most recent Ebola flare-up.
  Reuters Health Information, October 08, 2021
• 10 Lessons Learned From the Pandemic, and a Way Forward: Report A new report claims better federal government coordination is needed, along with an improved public health infrastructure, more tests, and better data on critical supplies.
  Medscape Medical News, September 20, 2021
• Guinea Declares End of Marburg Virus Outbreak An outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Guinea is officially over, health authorities said on Thursday, less than six weeks since West Africa's first ever case of the disease was detected.
  Reuters Health Information, September 16, 2021
• Ivory Coast Ebola Patient Recovers, Beginning Countdown to End of Outbreak A woman in Ivory Coast who earlier this month tested positive for the Ebola virus has recovered, allowing the country to begin a 42-day countdown to declaring an end to the outbreak, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, August 25, 2021
• Humanitarians Push to Vaccinate in Conflict Zones Pandemic ceasefires offer an opportunity to expand vaccination efforts, experts say. But negotiation is tricky.
  Undark, August 25, 2021
• Ivory Coast Begins Ebola Vaccinations After Case Confirmed in Abidjan Ivory Coast began vaccinating health workers against Ebola in the commercial capital Abidjan on Monday after a case of the deadly virus was confirmed over the weekend.
  Reuters Health Information, August 16, 2021
• Death Reported From Ebola-Like Marburg Virus in West Africa A deadly case of the Marburg virus has been identified in Guinea, the first time in the West Africa region.
  WebMD Health News, August 13, 2021
• Guinea Records Probable Case of Marburg Virus A probable case of Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, has been detected in Guinea, the health ministry said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2021
• What Will History Say About COVID? All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we don't — will write the pandemic story.
  Knowable Magazine, August 02, 2021
• WHO to Issue Findings on Congo Sexual Abuse Investigation by End August WHO said an independent investigation into allegations against WHO aid workers of sexual abuse in Democratic Republic of Congo should issue findings by the end of August.
  Reuters Health Information, May 28, 2021
• How Some COVID-19 Vaccines Could Cause Rare Blood Clots Regulatory agencies in the US and around the world are scrambling to determine the risk of potentially lethal but rare blood clots linked to adenovirus vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, April 14, 2021
• Don't Count Out Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Battle 'We created all this enthusiasm, and then these studies came out and they say this stuff didn't work in the first place,' said Dr Michael Busch. But that sentiment is by no means universal.
  Kaiser Health News, March 22, 2021