Congo-Kinshasa: Why Ebola Sex Abuse Victims May Never Find Justice
[The New Humanitarian] London -- 'The UN has essentially created a two-tier system for survivors of sexual abuse.' (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 30, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
What Is Marburg? What You Need To Know About The Killer Ebola-Like Virus Spreading In Parts Of Africa
There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24% to 88%. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Hart, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Science /science Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fevers: outbreaks and case locations
Information about incidents and outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg, both viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHF). (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Marburg virus disease: origins, reservoirs, transmission and guidelines
Marburg virus is a Filovirus which, along with Ebola virus, can cause a severe and often fatal viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF). (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ebola transmission: Can Ebola spread through the air?
(Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist)
Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Q & A: Bioengineer Mireille Kamariza can ’t wait to see what’s next
When Mireille Kamariza joined theUCLA Samueli School of Engineering as an assistant professor of bioengineering in January, she brought with her an early record of innovation.Just a decade after earning her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego, Kamariza has already developed a potential point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis. TB is the world ’s second-deadliest infectious disease, behind COVID-19, and still a serious burden in low-income countries.In the late 2010s, as a doctoral fellow at Stanford University, Kamariza and colleagues designed a system with a fluorescent “reporter” molecule attached to a sugar...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
In Africa, deadly Marburg virus strikes opposite sides of continent
The deadly Ebola-like disease spread by bats may be becoming more common under the influence of climate change, say scientists. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katharine Houreld Source Type: news
Deadly Marburg virus outbreaks reported in East and West Africa
The deadly Ebola-like disease spread by bats may be becoming more common under the influence of climate change, say scientists. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katharine Houreld Source Type: news
Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time
Tanzania reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and kidney failure.
Testing by the east African country confirmed the presence of the highly virulent disease that causes hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization said in a statement late Tuesday. Five of the eight cases in Tanzania’s northwest Kagera region have died and another 161 contacts have been identified and are being monitored, the WHO said.
Tanzania is the second African country this year to report its first Marburg outbreak after Equatorial Guinea in February d...
Source: TIME: Health - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Janice Kew/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Tanzanian officials confirm 5 dead from Marburg disease
Tanzania’s health ministry has confirmed that five people have died and three others are being treated for the Ebola-like Marburg disease (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Non-communicable diseases, injuries, and mental ill-health in Africa: the role of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention - Mohammed A, Putnis N, Kakunze A, Riches SP, Humphreys E, Eaton J, Bhatia T, Dar O, Raji T, Walker IF, Ogwell A.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) was established in 2017, after the west Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak. Upon creation, the role of Africa CDC was to mandate strengthening of the capacity of public health institutions... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Tanzania: Unidentified Illness Kills Five in Tanzania, Sparks Ebola Fears
[VOA] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Health officials in Tanzania are investigating an illness that killed five people in the country's northwest with Ebola-like symptoms, raising fears that it could be the deadly virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Growing number of high-security pathogen labs around world raises concerns
The number of high-containment labs studying the deadliest known pathogens is booming. A new analysis warns the growing number of labs is raising risks of an accidental release or misuse of germs such as the Ebola and Nipah viruses.
“The more labs and people working with dangerous pathogens, the risks go up,” says biosecurity expert Filippa Lentzos of King’s College London, who started the
Global BioLabs
mapping project 2 years ago with Gregory Koblentz of George Mason University.
Growth industry
Europe has the most biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) labs, and three-quarters are in urban ...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Restructuring medical education in Liberia
At the end of the Ebola crisis in 2015, Yale-led research studies of the West African country ’s crumbling healthcare system helped reshape its medical training. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - March 15, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Africa: Next Ebola Outbreak 'Not a Matter of If, but When'
[IPS] Kampala And Mubende -- It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 10, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
