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Nigeria: Improved Mouse Model Will Accelerate Research On Potential Ebola Vaccines, Treatments
Guardian, 6 November 2014
RESEARCHERS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues have developed the first genetic strain of mice that can be infected with Ebola and display symptoms… Read more »
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West Africa: Ebola Vaccine Trials May Begin Soon
RFI, 24 October 2014
Mali's first case of Ebola coincides with the World Health Organsation's annoucement of vaccine trials to take place in West Africa in early 2015. Read more »
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West Africa: 'Ebola Virus Epidemic in Africa Poised to Explode'
Guardian, 26 October 2014
SCIENTISTS predict that unless international commitments are significantly and immediately increased, the Ebola virus disease epidemic already devastating swaths of West Africa… Read more »
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Liberia: Study Reveals Alarming Ebola Predictions
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 24 October 2014
Efforts to control the Ebola virus in Liberia must be quickly and dramatically scaled up or tens of thousands of people will die in the coming months, said a study published on… Read more »
Ebola Vaccine Trials May Begin Soon
The French assistant director-general of the World Health Organisation, Dr Marie-Paul Kieny, has announced that the organisation hopes to begin vaccine trials in early 2015.
InFocus
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Just as the world was grappling with the worst ever outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, in West Africa with over 4000 dead, tragedy struck thousands of kilometres away in ... Read more »
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Health officials have confirmed that a two-year-old girl, who had recently been in Guinea, died as the country registers its first Ebola case. Read more »
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The World Health Organization is convening a major meeting of nearly 200 experts in Switzerland to discuss possible cures and vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus. Read more »
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"The United States has intensified every aspect of our engagement....but I want to expand that effort with an urgent plea to countries around the world to step up even further", ... Read more »
Volunteers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea work with the Red Cross to prevent and treat Ebola cases. Fears of Ebola in the United States could compromise their efforts.
