Ebola cure call lifts final quarter tallies for Irn-Bru drinks-maker AG Barr January 28, 2015 The maker of Scotland’s “other national drink” Irn-Bru reported five per cent sales growth in its final quarter of its financial year. In the three months to 25 January the producer AG Barr said trading performance is expected to have been well ahead of total soft drinks market. Full year revenue is expected to be [...]
GSK takes over in the Ebola race: Experimental vaccine Sent to Liberia for main tests January 23, 2015 Trials of GSK's experimental vaccine to prevent Ebola are about to begin in west Africa. Some 300 doses will be transported to Monrovia, capital of Liberia, and the intention is to inject the first subject within the next few weeks. Ultimately, researchers plan to inoculate 30,000 volunteers, including health-workers. The vaccine was created [...]
Davos 2015 on Ebola: Private sector is key to saving the world from future epidemics January 22, 2015 The Ebola epidemic in west Africa has killed thousands of people since it broke out in Guinea in December 2013, and it continues to claim new lives on a daily basis. International efforts have been largely successful and preventing the virus from leaving the region and reaching a pandemic level, but the risk of [...]
More epidemics like Ebola will pose a threat to the Western world, scientist tells Davos January 21, 2015 The man who discovered the cause of Ebola in 1976 has warned there will be more major disease epidemics, and the Western world is not immune to them. Professor Peter Piot from Belgium issued his advice to global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, urging them to “take a long term view” [...]
Ebola in the UK: Suspected case in Edinburgh while Australian woman airlifted to UK January 16, 2015 A woman in Edinburgh is being tested for Ebola, having recently returned from west Africa. After developing a fever on Thursday, she was admitted to the Western General Hospital in the Scottish capital and is now being kept there in an isolation unit. Melanie Johnson, Director of Unscheduled Care at NHS Lothian, said: [...]
Ebola in the UK: Woman tested for virus in Northampton January 15, 2015 A woman suspected of having Ebola is being tested for the virus at a hospital in Northampton. At present, no details have been revealed about the identity of the woman or how she might have contracted the disease. According to Public Health England, it is very unlikely she is suffering from Ebola, but [...]
Ebola outbreak: Two vaccines cleared for trials in west Africa January 11, 2015 Two potential Ebola vaccines have been approved for front-line trials in West Africa. The vaccines, developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co, are expected to begin trails in Liberia at the end of January and Sierra Leone and Guinea in February. The Merck vaccine were temporarily halted in December due to joint pain, a side effect later termed tolerable [...]
Johnson & Johnson catches up with GSK in race to develop Ebola vaccine – human safety trials begin in Oxford January 6, 2015 Johnson & Johnson has started human trials of its new Ebola vaccine, which is intended to stop the spread of the epidemic that has already killed thousands of people in west Africa. Trials are taking place on 72 people at Oxford University, and similar tests will soon get going in the US and three [...]
Where did Ebola come from? Fruit bats in a Guinean tree, say scientists December 30, 2014 The current outbreak of Ebola has already claimed the lives of over 7,000 people in west Africa, and there are few signs of the situation abating. The virus first infected a young boy named Emile Ouamouno in Guinea in December 2013. It quickly spread throughout the country and into neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia, destroying [...]
Ebola reaches the UK as one case confirmed and two people tested December 30, 2014 Two more patients are being tested for Ebola in the UK, less than 24 hours after a woman in Glasgow tested positive for the virus. In Cornwall, a suspected sufferer was taken into isolation at the Royal Cornwall hospital, near Truro. They were admitted yesterday evening after showing symptoms of the disease, and had recently [...]