Ebola risk remains low after UK nurse recovers
The Scottish nurse found to have Ebola after arriving in Glasgow from Sierra Leone has recovered after specialist care at the Royal Free Hospital in London and has been discharged.
She remains the only case confirmed in the UK, and the risk to the general public is very low. Ebola can be transmitted only by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person.
The nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, had been working as a volunteer for Save the Children in Sierra Leone. She left Sierra Leone on December 28 and took flights from Freetown to Casablanca and from Casablanca to London. She then transferred at Heathrow t...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news
UK Ebola case confirmed but risk remains low
A case of Ebola has now been confirmed in the UK, but the risk to the general public remains very low. Ebola can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person.
The UK case – in a healthcare worker in Scotland who arrived in Glasgow from Sierra Leone on Sunday – has been confirmed by the Scottish government. The patient was placed in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital and has been transferred for specialised care at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
The healthcare worker left Sierra Leone on December 28 and was a passenger on flight AT596 from Freetown to Cas...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news
UK Ebola case confirmed but risk remains low
A case of Ebola has now been confirmed in the UK but the risk of Ebola to the general public remains very low. Ebola can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person.
The UK case - in a healthcare worker in Scotland who arrived in Glasgow from Sierra Leone on Sunday - has been confirmed by the Scottish government. The patient was placed in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital and will be transferred for specialised care at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
The healthcare worker left Sierra Leone on December 28 and was a passenger on flight AT596 from Freetown to ...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news
Ebola's True Toll Is Still Untallied As Another Deadly Fever Looms
Dr. Ross Donaldson recalls traveling around the Sierra Leone city of Kenema a decade ago, "telling people not to eat rats."
The multimammate rat, which is ubiquitous in sub-Saharan Africa, can carry a deadly hemorrhagic illness akin to Ebola, known as Lassa fever. Yet for many residents of the impoverished region, the animal remains a staple food.
"From a foreign perspective, it seems like a no-brainer," said Donaldson, who spent the summer of 2003 at Kenema Government Hospital's Lassa ward as a medical student studying the virus and treating its victims. He now directs the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program at the...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 11, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Malaria, Pneumonia Going Untreated Due To Ebola Outbreak
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Ebola outbreak has spawned a "silent killer," experts say: hidden cases of malaria, pneumonia, typhoid and the like that are going untreated because people in the countries hardest hit by the dreaded virus either cannot find an open clinic or are too afraid to go to one.
Evidence of what the World Health Organization calls an "emergency within the emergency" is everywhere in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the West African countries worst hit by the Ebola epidemic. It can be seen in a decline in the number of kids being vaccinated for preventable diseases. It can be seen in the mother who ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 5, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
7 Steps To Ensure Ebola Doesn't Disrupt Your International Travel
Is it safe to travel? Should we cancel our long-planned family safari in Botswana? Can I get Ebola from an airplane seat? For the last two decades, I've been helping people find the best doctors, treatments and medical information -- and I've never seen the kind of health panic among clients like I do now. (Yes, No and Extraordinarily unlikely are the short answers to these questions, by the way).
For expert advice, I checked in with Dr. Michael Callahan, an associate physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Callahan ran one of the Department of Defense pr...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 27, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Typhim (Typhoid Vi Polysaccharide Vaccine) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - October 10, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Vivotif Oral (Typhoid Vaccine) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - October 10, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Typhoid Fever Surveillance and Vaccine Use — South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions, 2009–2013
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - October 3, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Vaccine for Ebola? Experts answer questions
To learn more about this outbreak and the creation of new human vaccines, infectious disease experts who have led vaccine studies for such global pathogens as cholera, West Nile virus, dengue, typhoid fever and anthrax speak to reporters and answer questions. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 29, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Specialty Vaccine Company PaxVax Expands Global Commercial Team
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--PaxVax, Inc., a specialty vaccine company focused on travel and biodefense, today announced the expansion of its global commercial team with the appointments of Jonathan Klock as Vice President ... Biopharmaceuticals, PersonnelPaxVax, vaccine, Vivotif, typhoid, cholera, anthrax (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - August 7, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Ebola virus threat to the UK is 'very low'
Health news has been dominated in recent days by the outbreak of the Ebola virus in west Africa, with more than 1,200 confirmed cases and 672 deaths.
Cases have been confirmed in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The World Health Organization estimates the current outbreak has a mortality rate of 56%.
It is important to note there is currently no direct threat to people in the UK from the Ebola virus.
Outbreaks of Ebola are nothing new, but health professionals are concerned about the size of the outbreak.
The majority of cases are confined to rural areas, but there has been a reported case of a man infected with the vi...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 31, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news
What Are Precautions for Someone Traveling to the Middle East About the Risk of MERS?
Discussion
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a respiratory illness cause by a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. It was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. People with confirmed cases of MERS have developed severe respiratory illness that includes acute onset of cough, shortness of breath, and fever. Other symptoms include gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea. Pneumonia is common, and patients may progress to respiratory failure. Other end organ failure has occurred, particularly kidney failure and septic shock. The death rate is up to ~30% currently. People with compromised immune systems are more at risk.
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Source: PediatricEducation.org - June 16, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Typhoid vaccine live oral Ty21a, Vivotif
Title: Typhoid vaccine live oral Ty21a, Vivotif Category: MedicationsCreated: 3/2/2005 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/3/2014 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Medications General)
Source: MedicineNet Medications General - June 3, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
“Our teams will be busy for some time”
“MSF has been doing consultations in the town of Guiuan. Six hundred patients came on the first day. MSF teams on different islands are doing their first consultations, so we are beginning to build a picture of the needs and the human suffering that has accompanied this disaster.
The most serious cases we’ve seen in Guiuan are people with injuries caused by the fierce wind. We’ve seen around 60 people needing minor surgery, suturing, cleaning of infected wounds and setting of broken bones. We also saw people with diabetes who have badly infected wounds.
Philippines © Laurence Hoenig/MSF. An MSF mobile clinic ne...
Source: MSF News - November 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Philippines NEWS Frontpage Natural Disaster Source Type: news
