NIH study of Ebola patient traces disease progression and recovery
Ebola virus isolated in November 2014 from patient blood samples obtained in Mali. read more
View ArticleDRC: Team dispatched following Ebola confirmation
One case of Ebola has been confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Likati health zone of Bas Uele Province in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A total of nine cases,...
View ArticleWHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti travels to Kinshasa to...
The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti today visited Kinshasa (DR Congo) to discuss with national authorities and partners ways to mount a rapid, effective and coherent response in...
View ArticleStatement by Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management and EU...
The national authorities, with the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the European Commission's experts in the country as well as international medical NGOs, have set in motion initial...
View ArticleReadout of Secretary Prices Visit to Liberia
On Wednesday, May 17th, and Thursday, May 18th, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., traveled to Liberia as the first stop in a three-nation tour to highlight the United States’ role in...
View ArticleCongo Ebola outbreak: Health care providers should review response plans
ANN ARBOR—With an Ebola outbreak underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo, experts say health care providers should review their Ebola response plans now to avoid repeating past mistakes. read more
View ArticleUppsala Health Summit announces travel grants for journalists to participate...
Uppsala Health Summit has decided to offer four travel grants for journalists who would not otherwise be able to attend the summit on 9–11 October 2017 at Uppsala Castle, Sweden. The theme of this...
View ArticlePurdue researchers speak in D.C. about Zika crisis, other emerging infectious...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers from Discovery Park were among some of the nation’s prominent experts in Washington D.C., on Thursday (June 8) to participate in an expert...
View ArticleOne Health approach to global epidemic preparedness
Minimising the impact of viruses upon the pig industry is a major objective of a $3.83 million grant to international scientific collaborators, including a team from Queensland. read more
View ArticleWHO supports containment of rare virus on Uganda-Kenya border
WHO is working to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) that has appeared in eastern Uganda on the border with Kenya. read more
View ArticleUS leadership and sustained funding urgently needed to prevent pandemics
Washington, DC, October 24, 2017 — Recent progress made in protecting Americans and people around the world from pandemics is at risk of being lost if US support is not sustained, PATH warns in a new...
View Article$2 Million NSF Grant Harnesses Big Data & AI to Advance Disease Prevention
Millbrook, NY) Through a new $2 million National Science Foundation grant, scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, the University of Georgia, and North Carolina A&T State University...
View Article$2M NSF grant harnesses big data & AI to advance disease prevention
Rodents are just one group of animals being studied for their potential to carry and spread zoonotic pathogens. read more
View ArticleNew Smithsonian Exhibition Explores Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Next year, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the Great Influenza, a pandemic that took the lives of 50–100 million people—between 3 and 5 percent of the world’s population at that time. The...
View ArticleLeading the prevention of global health threats
Australia's tyranny of distance is no protection from global health threats. In recent months, the government has taken a number of positive steps to reaffirm the importance of international norms and...
View Article40 years after first Ebola outbreak, survivors show signs they can stave off...
An Ebola researcher works out of a mobile laboratory set up in a mud hut in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. read more
View ArticleReport Uppsala Health Summit: 100 years after the Spanish flu how can we...
Warding off the threats of future epidemics will be difficult without better cooperation and contingency plans that allow us to act before a crisis hits. This is one of the messages in a new report...
View ArticleEbola virus infects reproductive organs in monkeys
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of the ovary from a nonhuman primate infected with Ebola virus. Characteristic filamentous Ebola virus particles are present between cells (bright red)....
View ArticleMonoclonal antibodies crucial to fighting emerging infectious diseases, say...
Ebola virus particles (red) on a larger cell. ZMAPP, a potential treatment for Ebola, includes a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies. read more
View ArticleUS exits Iran deal: U-M experts can discuss
University of Michigan experts can comment on the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and its global implications. read more
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