Ebola Virus Information

Uganda says Ebola outbreak is over

2011-06-17T05:00:09Z

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has successfully prevented the rare and deadly Ebola virus from spreading, nearly two months after a 12 year-old girl bled to death after contracting the disease, officials said on Friday.

"Uganda is free of Ebola," Doctor Anthony Mbonya, chairman of a national ta...

Ebola kills girl in Uganda with more cases expected

2011-05-16T09:30:56Z

KAMPALA (Reuters) - The rare and deadly Ebola virus has killed a 12-year-old Ugandan girl and health officials said on Saturday they expected more cases.

The girl from Luwero district, 75 km (45 miles) north of the capital Kampala, died on May 6, said Anthony Mbonye, the government's commis...

Ebola virus case reported near Uganda's capital

2011-05-14T14:30:08Z

Initial test results indicate that a 12-year-old girl died of the deadly Ebola virus in a town about 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Kampala, health officials told AFP on Saturday.

Preliminary testing carried out at the Uganda Virus Research Institute showed on Friday that the girl died from the virus on May 6 at Bombo hospital, said Dr Miriam Nanyunja, disease prevention and co...

Overview of Ebola virus

2010-11-29T15:16:04Z

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Are Ebola virus and Marbug virus related?

2010-11-29T15:16:10Z

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Life Insurance for Ebola Scientists

2010-11-04T13:18:58Z

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QUARANTINE IT !

2010-11-03T09:44:06Z

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A Deadly Virus

2010-11-03T09:46:43Z

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Ebola Virus Lifecycle and Pathology

2010-11-02T18:49:29Z

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What is Ebola?

2010-11-05T10:13:52Z

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Drugs protect monkeys from Ebola, U.S. study finds

2010-08-23T14:30:17Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government researchers working to find ways to treat the highly deadly Ebola virus said on Sunday a new approach from AVI BioPharma Inc saved monkeys after they were infected.

Two experimental treatments protected more than 60 percent of monkeys infected with Ebola ...

Recent news from WHO

2010-11-02T15:15:15Z

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RECTIFICATIF AU No 38 2007

2010-11-02T15:11:58Z

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Marburg haemorrhagic fever Democratic Republic of the Congo

2010-11-02T15:11:50Z

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CORRIGENDUM TO No 38 2007

2010-11-02T15:11:58Z

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Virologist Exposed to Ebola Removed From Isolation, Appears Healthy

2010-11-02T14:03:45Z

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Silencing approach saves monkeys from Ebola: study

2010-05-28T13:00:41Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gene silencing approach can save monkeys from high doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola virus in what researchers call the most viable route yet to treating the deadly and frightening infection.

They used small interfering RNAs or siRNAs, a new technology being developed by a number of companies, to hold the virus at bay for a week until the immune system could take over.

U.S. gover...

Today on New Scientist: 28 May 2010

2010-10-27T07:12:01Z

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Drug defeats deadly Ebola virus infection

2010-10-27T07:12:01Z

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Ebola Virus Thwarted After Exposure

2010-10-27T09:03:45Z

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Drug shields lab monkeys from deadly Ebola virus

2010-05-27T17:15:38Z

Pentagon-backed research has yielded a breakthrough in the fight against the Ebola virus, a pathogen that is also feared as a future bioterror weapon, scientists reported on Friday.

Monkeys injected with the deadliest strain of Ebola survived after receiving an experimental formula that uses tiny particles of genetic material to disrupt viral reproduction, they said.

It is the first time a drug has protected non-human primates against Ebola, a virus that is sometimes dubbed a...

UN: Central African gorillas in danger from trade

2010-03-24T10:30:24Z

Gorillas in central Africa are in danger from illegal logging, mining and from hunters who are killing great apes for meat, said a joint report from the United Nations and Interpol released Wednesday.

A previous report in 2002 estimated that only 10 percent of gorillas would remain by 2030. The author of the 2002 report and of the n...

Conferences

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Observatory

2010-10-22T10:39:24Z

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Kikwit

2010-10-22T09:23:03Z

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Ebola Sudan

2010-10-22T09:15:01Z

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Ebola Cote dIvoire

2010-10-22T09:14:58Z

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Ebola Reston

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Ebola Zaire

2010-10-22T09:14:42Z

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Ebola found in Philippine pigs for first time

2010-04-16T11:25:29Z

Philippine pigs found infected with form of ebola only seen in humans and monkeys before

A form of ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and threaten humans, scientists report.

Reston ebolavirus has only been seen in monkeys and humans previously and, unlike other types of ebola, it is not known to cause illness in people.

The discovery of REBOV in pigs in the Philippines to see if fruit bats may have infected pigs with a non-lethal form of the Ebola virus, a health official said on Monday.

Eric Tayag, the head of the Philippine health department's national epidemiology centre, the experts will be looking for the source of the Ebola-Reston virus that infected thousands of pigs earlier this year.

Tayag said the experts were lo...

Early-death Congo gorilla 'not from Ebola': keepers

2010-04-16T15:41:51Z

Wild life curators in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sought Wednesday to dispel local claims that a 40-year-old gorilla had died from the Ebola virus.

Radar Nishull, conservationist in the Kahuza-Biego national park, said the gorilla, named Mufanzala and the head of a family of 18, died from an abscess in the liver, "not from the Ebola virus, contrary to rumours."

He added th...

Early-death Congo gorilla 'not Ebola': keepers

2010-04-16T15:42:26Z

Wild life curators in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sought Wednesday to dispel local claims that a 40-year-old gorilla had died from the Ebola virus.

He added th...

Researcher healthy 21 days after Ebola accident

2010-04-16T15:50:19Z

A researcher who may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus was declared healthy and released from isolation at a German hospital Thursday, having been spared the horrific symptoms of the disease.

The woman had accidentally pricked her finger three weeks ago with a needle used to inject Ebola into mice. It was not known if the virus actually entered her bloodstream, but she was given an experimental vaccine just in case. The vaccine had never been tested on humans.

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WHO: Ebola virus outbreak in Congo stabilized

2010-04-16T17:18:50Z

Deadly Ebola virus outbreak in Congo stabilized with no new cases in 2 weeks, WHO reports

An Ebola virus outbreak in a remote province of Congo that left 15 people dead has stabilized with no new reported cases in the last two weeks, the World Health Organization said Monday.

"The epidemic has stabilized but one cannot say that it's over," said WHO representative WHO Friday refused to rule out the possibility that five men may have contracted a non-lethal strain of the Ebola virus from infected pigs.

Four pig farm workers and a butcher in the northern Philippines tested positive for antibodies for Ebola-Reston, indicating that they may have been infected with the virus in the p...

Hamburg scientist potentially infected with Ebola

2010-04-17T22:00:01Z

Spokesperson Maren Puttfarcken holds a picture of the treatment centre for highly contagious diseases of the Hamburg-Eppendorf university hospital (UKE) in Hamburg, Germany, 17 March 2009. The UKE currently treats a scientist of Hamburg's Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine who is possibly infected with the Ebola virus. The woman had 'minimally' injured herself during an accident in the maximum...

(5)THE PHILIPPINES-PIG FARM-EBOLA VIRUS

2010-10-22T10:03:21Z

090130) -- MANILA, Jan. 30, 2009 -- A pork dealer hangs bangers for sale at a wet market in Manila, the Philippines, on Jan. 30, 2009. The Philippine health authority on Friday reported that three pig farm workers and a slaughter house worker were found carrying antibodies of a strain of Ebola virus which might have jumped from sick hogs to human but has yet posed immediate threat to the public hea...

(1)THE PHILIPPINES-PIG FARM-EBOLA VIRUS

2010-10-22T10:03:20Z

090130) -- MANILA, Jan. 30, 2009 -- Pork dealers prepare meat for sale at a wet market in Manila, the Philippines, on Jan. 30, 2009. The Philippine health authority on Friday reported that three pig farm workers and a slaughter house worker were found carrying antibodies of a strain of Ebola virus which might have jumped from sick hogs to human but has yet posed immediate threat to the public heal...

(2)THE PHILIPPINES-PIG FARM-EBOLA VIRUS

2010-10-22T10:03:20Z

090130) -- MANILA, Jan. 30, 2009 -- A pork dealer prepares the meat for sale at a wet market in Manila, the Philippines, on Jan. 30, 2009. The Philippine health authority on Friday reported that three pig farm workers and a slaughter house worker were found carrying antibodies of a strain of Ebola virus which might have jumped from sick hogs to human but has yet posed immediate threat to the publi...

(3)THE PHILIPPINES-PIG FARM-EBOLA VIRUS

2010-10-22T10:03:21Z