Why Ebola almost definitely won’t spread in the US October 1, 2014 Last night it was confirmed that a man in Dallas, Texas, had contracted the Ebola virus. This is the first time the disease has been confirmed in a patient in the US. The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) said the sufferer had recently returned from Liberia – the country worst hit by the [...]
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals share price shoots up 27pc after Ebola case confirmed in US September 30, 2014 Shares in Canadian drugmaker Tekmira Pharmaceuticals soared in after-hours trading yesterday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of the Ebola virus on US soil. After closing about two per cent up, shares jumped 27 per cent to $26.82 on heavy volume. In August, the US Food and Drug Administration [...]
Ebola virus diagnosed in the US: Tekmiara share price surges as first case confirmed by CDC in Dallas, Texas September 30, 2014 The first case of the deadly Ebola virus to be diagnosed outside of Africa has been confirmed in a patient in the US. The unnamed man was admitted to a hospital in Dallas, Texas with symptoms of the disease and isolated on Sunday after returning from West Africa the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed. A [...]
How many people have died from the Ebola outbreak? Over 3,000, says WHO September 27, 2014 More than 3,000 people have died as a result of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In its latest report, the UN's health agency said there had been a total of 3,133 confirmed deaths and over 6,500 people had been infected with the virus so far. [...]
Ebola outbreak: Half a million could be infected by end of January September 20, 2014 Hundreds of thousands more people could fall victim to the Ebola epidemic making its way through parts of West Africa, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a worst case scenario, it predicts as many as 550,000 people could be infected by the end of January next [...]
GSK share price shows immunity to Ebola vaccine September 17, 2014 The news GSK’s Ebola vaccine is to be trialled on humans failed to lift the company on the stock market this morning, with its share price falling 0.21 per cent to 1,438 pence. The experimental vaccine is to be tested on 60 healthy adults in Oxford, after it conferred resistance on a group of [...]
“Now is the time to prepare”: White House ramps up efforts to stop Ebola entering the US September 16, 2014 The US government has told healthcare workers "now is the time to prepare" for the possibility the Ebola virus could enter the country. The news came as President Obama announced he was sending 3,000 troops into West Africa in an attempt to contain the disease. An announcement put out by the White House [...]
Ebola outbreak: Black market trade in blood serum worries World Health Organisation September 13, 2014 As the Ebola outbreak continues and reports emerge of hospitals turning suffering people away, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed the black market trade in treatments produced from survivors' blood. As this fantastic map from the BBC shows, almost every region in Sierra Leone and Liberia has reported deaths, and the disease is continuing [...]
Ebola: Cuba pledges doctors as WHO warns that infection rate outpaces ability to manage cases September 12, 2014 The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is now beyond health authorities' ability to contain it, the World Health Organisation said today. The three worst affected countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – are the most problematic, the international body said, with the rate of infection rising faster than capacity to cope. [...]
Where is Ebola worst in West Africa? Liberia to experience surge in cases September 9, 2014 The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts there will be a huge rise in Ebola cases in Liberia. It said the disease is spreading “exponentially” in the country, and that thousands of people will become infected there over the next three weeks. Conventional methods to control the outbreak were "not having an adequate impact", [...]