Ervebo Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure to Ebola Ervebo Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure to Ebola
Data suggested that the vaccine reduces the risk for infection and reduces mortality rates by half.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Ebola Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure Ebola Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure
Data suggested that the vaccine reduces the risk for infection and reduces mortality rates by half.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 27, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Africa: Preventive Ebola Vaccination Safeguards Health Workers in Democratic Republic of the Congo
[WHO-AFRO] Kinshasa -- "Getting the Ebola vaccine has given me a deep sense of security and will allow me to concentrate fully on my work," says Chrysostome Kavusa Mwenderwa, a health care worker at Kalunguta Referral Hospital in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Ebola External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Uganda Sees Health Workforce Gains; Increases in Family Planning and Safe Deliveries at End of USAID Project
cbalesFebruary 19, 2024February 19, 2024Between 2017 and 2023, Uganda strengthened its health workforce and systems, improved health services, and championed locally led development in collaboration with IntraHealth ’sRegional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) Activity.Led by IntraHealth in partnership with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU), Malaria Consortium, and Medic, the USAID-funded project worked closely with the government at the national and local levels to expand access to high-quality health services. RHITES-E also sup...
Source: IntraHealth International - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
Lawmaker raises new flap over U.S.-funded virology research that critics call risky
A U.S. senator has thrown a political spotlight on yet another U.S.-Chinese research collaboration that critics suggest includes dangerous experiments that could create “superviruses” capable of sparking a pandemic. But contrary to assertions raised by Senator Joni Ernst (R–IA), none of the U.S. funding for the project goes to foreign researchers, and scientists who are part of the collaboration challenge other concerns she raised. And the U.S. funding agency she questioned this week issued a blistering response.
Prompted by information given to her by a group that opposes animal research, the White Coat Waste ...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Ebola Vaccine Given Post-Infection Protects Against Death
(MedPage Today) -- Vaccination with the Ebola Zaire vaccine (rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP; Ervebo) was associated with a significantly lower risk of death in patients with confirmed Ebola disease, even for those vaccinated shortly after exposure to the... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - February 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
White House seeks input on tightening rules for risky pathogen research
A panel’s recommendations earlier this year to tighten U.S. rules for funding research on dangerous pathogens
sparked concerns
that some of the changes would hamper routine studies important to public health. Now, the White House is looking at ways to narrow the swath of federally funded research that would undergo the heightened reviews proposed in a
final report
released in March by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
A
notice
posted today in the
Federal Register
by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) seeks comments by 16 October on a...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 1, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
U.S. FDA Approves Merck ’s Ervebo (Ebola Zaire Vaccine, Live) for Use in Children 12 Months of Age and Older
RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE) August 3, 2023 -- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded indication for Ervebo, which is now... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - August 3, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
The U.S. Scientist At the Heart of COVID-19 Lab Leak Conspiracies Is Still Trying to Save the World From the Next Pandemic
Ralph Baric stepped onto the auditorium stage at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and looked out at the sparse audience that had come to hear him speak. On the large projector screen hanging behind him, the following words appeared: How Bad the Next Pandemic Could Be, What Might It Look Like, and Will We be Ready. The date was May 29, 2018.
“Well, I have to admit I’m a little worried about giving this talk,” Baric said. “The reason is being labelled a harbinger of doom.” The screen shifted, and images of the four horsemen of the apocalypse—Death, Famine, War, and Plague&mda...
Source: TIME: Health - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Werb Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature freelance Source Type: news
AI? Brain manipulation? WHO ’s new chief scientist aims to anticipate global challenges
At the beginning of May, after almost 10 years at the helm of one of the world’s richest biomedical foundations, British physician Jeremy Farrar traded funding clout for a bigger international stage, moving to Geneva to become chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). Farrar had
helped make the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust a major player
in global issues such as infectious diseases and the health effects of climate change. He also wasn’t shy about criticizing WHO’s leadership, specifically its slow response to the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Only the second person in the chief scie...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 29, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Inequitable Distribution of COVID Vaccines Tied to Power and Money
This report was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Global Health Reporting Initiative: Vaccines and Immunization in the Caribbean.
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Caribbean aims to Turn Foul-smelling, Enviro Problem Sargassum Seaweed into High-Value Products
Trinidad and Tobago – Protecting ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jewel Fraser Tags: COVID-19 Featured Global Headlines Health Inequality Multimedia Podcast TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
New Marburg Outbreaks in Africa Raise Alarm About the Deadly Virus ’s Spread
The spread of the Ebola-like virus has claimed lives but could be a crucial chance to test a vaccine — if supplies and researchers are mobilized in time. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Marburg Virus Ebola Virus Clinical Trials Research World Health Organization Africa Equatorial Guinea Tanzania your-feed-science your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
News at a glance: A particle ’s weighty measurement, Marburg in Africa, and a fossil called “the blob”
PARTICLE PHYSICS
Particle mass dispels hint of new physics
A fleeting, weighty elementary particle called the W boson has just the mass predicted by theory, physicists working with Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported this week at a conference in Italy. The finding comes from ATLAS, one of four large particle detectors fed by the LHC, and it contradicts
the eyebrow-raising measurement
reported last year in
Science
that suggested
the W was heavier than predicted by physicists’ prevailing standard model
. That discrepancy could have signaled that massive ne...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
