Death Reported From Ebola-Like Marburg Virus in West Africa 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 (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
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. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - August 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WHO supports Guinea after detection of first-ever case of Marburg disease
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Guinea following a confirmed death from Marburg virus disease, the first known case in the country and West Africa, the UN agency reported on Wednesday. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - August 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Discovered in Neighboring Guinea
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The World Health Organization (WHO)-Liberia Country Office has notified the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) of two confirmed cases of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever in Gueckedou, the Republic of Guinea. The patients are 46-year-old male and a female (age unknown) who were both residents of Temessadou, a Sub-Prefecture of Gueckedou. The Guinean Health Authorities were alerted by community members of Koundou Lengo Bengou which is 54 kilometers away from Gueckedou. This is the first time Marbur (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 11, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
I ’m Your Man review – Dan Stevens is the perfect date in android romance
Near-future tale of a woman who accepts a male ‘companion’ robot played by Stevens is laboriously told and not really funny enoughDirected by Maria Schrader, this was a crowd-pleasing favourite at the Berlin film festival earlier this year and its star, Maren Eggert, won the festival ’s new gender-neutral best leading performance prize. But I was disappointed with a film whose crises and dilemmas seem laborious and essentially predictable; it does not fully work as sci-fi or satire or comedy.We are in a world of the near-future (and the city of Berlin itself is certainly very plausible as its location). Eggert plays ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Peter Bradshaw Tags: Film Comedy films Science fiction and fantasy films Dan Stevens Germany Artificial intelligence (AI) World news Technology Europe Culture Consciousness Computing Human biology Neuroscience Psychology Source Type: news
Guinea confirms first case of deadly Marburg virus months after end of Ebola outbreak
Part of the same virus family as Ebola, Marburg has a fatality rate that can reach up to 90%, as the person who had it has died. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Marburg Virus Disease Detected in West Africa for First Time
The finding of the Ebola-like disease, which killed a man in Guinea, has prompted public health measures. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
WHO, Guinea find at least 4 contacts of Marburg virus victim
The World Health Organization says at least four people have turned up as contacts of a man who died in Guinea from the Ebola-like Marburg virus (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - August 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
West Africa: First-Ever Case of Marburg Virus Disease Confirmed in Guinea
[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Conakry -- Health authorities in Guinea today confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease in the southern Gueckedou prefecture. This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, has been identified in the country, and in West Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 10, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Guinea reports West Africa's first known Marburg virus death
Authorities in West Africa have confirmed the region’s first known case of Marburg virus after at least one person in Guinea died of the hemorrhagic fever disease (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - August 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Fake COVID-19 Vaccination Cards Worry College Officials
(SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.) — As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students to attend in-person classes. But the mandatory requirement has opened the door for those opposed to getting the vaccine to cheat the system, according to interviews with students, education and law enforcement officials.
Both faculty and students at dozens of schools interviewed by The Associated Press say they are concerned about how easy it is to get fake vaccine cards.
Across the internet, a cottage industry has s...
Source: TIME: Health - August 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roselyn Romero/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 wire Source Type: news
Did you solve it? Numbers in New Guinea
The answers to today ’s counting conundrumEarlier today I set you the following problem about how to count in Ngkolmpu, a language spoken by about 100 people in New Guinea.Ngkolmpu does not have a base ten system like English does. In other words, it doesn ’t count in tens, hundreds and thousands. Beyond its different base, however, it behaves very regularly.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos Tags: Mathematics Education Science Papua New Guinea Linguistics Source Type: news
Can you solve it? Numbers in New Guinea
A rare way to countToday is the International Day of the World ’s Indigenous People, which aims to raise awareness of issues concerning indigenous communities. Such as, for example, the survival of their languages. According to theEndangered Languages Project, more than 40 per cent of the world ’s 7,000 languages are at risk of extinction.Among the fantastic diversity of the world ’s languages is a diversity in counting systems. The following puzzle concerns the number words of Ngkolmpu, a language spoken by about 100 people in New Guinea. (They live in the border area between the Indonesian province of Papua and the...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos Tags: Mathematics Education Science Papua New Guinea Linguistics Source Type: news
Probable Case Of Ebola-Like Marburg Virus In Guinea
Marburg virus may have been identified for the first time in West Africa. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 7, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news
Probable Case Of Ebola-Like Marburg Virus Identified In Guinea
Marburg virus may have been identified for the first time in West Africa. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 7, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Editors' Pick editors-pick Source Type: news
