A 15-minute blood and saliva test for Ebola is to be trialled in Guinea, it has been announced.
The solar-powered, portable laboratory should deliver results six times faster than tests currently used in West Africa.
The researchers involved say faster diagnosis would increase the chances of...
Britain’s flagship facility in Sierra Leone has treated just 28 patients so far, despite £230million investment to fight disease.
The Department for International Development has put £230million towards helping Sierra Leone fight Ebola, but only 28 people have been treated in the new facility...
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A deadline of December 1 to contain the Ebola virus will not be fully met due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone and elsewhere, the UN Ebola Emergency Response Mission which had set the target, said.
The mission set the goal in September, seeking to have 70 percent of Ebola patients...
Scientists condemn homeopaths as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘cruel’ for offering victims false hope and for ‘putting lives at risk’
Homeopaths have offered their services to prevent and treat Ebola in west Africa, claiming their “remedies” can work in serious epidemics of infectious disease...
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Doctors attack 'armchair intellectuals' at World Health Organisation who refuse to let them treat deadly virus with snake venom remedy
Medics want to treat Ebola victims with remedies backed by Prince Charles
They accuse critics of 'ridiculous' disbelief over snake venom treatments
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Researchers say that a new device that yanks Ebola virus from the blood may have saved an infected doctor’s life
Battling a virus is all about timing, and Ebola is no exception. Our immune systems are capable of destroying Ebola, but once in the body, the virus multiplies furiously, spreading...
Team spent days in remote Liberian hospital to prove that remedies work
They planned to treat victims with 'rattlesnake venom' and 'Spanish Fly'
Boasted of the 'unique opportunity' presented by deadly Ebola outbreak
Claimed they would treat all European victims after proving success
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Health officials say a second, more serious outbreak of Ebola in Mali started about two weeks ago, when a clinic made a mistake while treating a grand imam.
Doctors at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali's capital, diagnosed the imam with kidney failure and never bothered to test him for...
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Cuban healthcare workers have played a leading role on the African continent for decades. The revolutionary government views its work in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as a manifestation of internationalism and solidarity with Africa.
In a surprised twist in diplomatic protocol...
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The United Nations worker contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and has been placed in isolation under high security
France is treating a UN employee who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, the health ministry said on Sunday.
“This person, who worked in Sierra Leone in the fight against Ebola, has...
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(Reuters) - A New York doctor with Ebola, whose case triggered a national debate over mandatory quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa, was upgraded to stable condition on Saturday after nine days of treatment.
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, the only person in the United States...
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(CNN) -- A doctor who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for Ebola -- the first case of the deadly virus in New York City and the fourth diagnosed in the United States.
Here is a timeline of Craig Spencer's movements since he got back from the West African nation:
When did he...
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Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins criticized the CDC hours after it was revealed that a second nurse who came into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for the deadly disease, and that the new patient flew on a...
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A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid has become the first person in the world to contract the deadly virus outside of Africa.
The 44-year-old is said to have spent the last 15 years working at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, where the two Spanish missionaries infected with...
Yes, I know it's not a too interesting subject, but I need something for this problem, and have no idea what? eBaying, I came across this machine:
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Which caught my eye, simply because it appeals...if it works? Not too surpisingly, there was another ad with a price ~5 times...