Researchers at Hebei Medical University in China have used a protein that is found in Ebola alongside a contagious disease in hamsters that wiped out the rodents ...
A meeting convened by WHO in Africa in February, 2024, aimed to develop a protocol for assessing new treatments for filovirus diseases during outbreaks. Esther Nakkazi reports.
A CASE of Lassa fever has been reported in the Paris region. The patient, a soldier who had recently returned from abroad, is now being treated at the Bégin military hospital in Saint-Mandé, ...
Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak declared public health emergency by WHO ...
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, ...
Around the world, deforestation — often to clear land for agriculture — has been linked to outbreaks of diseases that have jumped from animal to human. HIV, Zika, Sars, mpox and Ebola are some of the ...
In 2018, there was another ebola outbreak in the African continent ... When the disease spread to neighbouring Uganda in 2019 ...
With two endorsed and prophylactic vaccines against Zaire ebolavirus (referred to hereafter as EBOV), the number of individuals vaccinated against EBOV worldwide is estimated to range between 500 000 ...
Effective public health communication is essential for Africa, confronted with numerous infectious disease epidemics and ...
Soligenix extends patent protection for its Filovirus vaccine to United Kingdom and South Africa: Princeton, New Jersey Saturday, April 27, 2024, 11:00 Hrs [IST] Soligenix, Inc, a ...
Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread ...
Availability of a single-vial, heat stable vaccine would significantly enhance global public health preparedness or response to a new outbreak, at its source ... vaccine of recombinantly expressed ...