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WASHINGTON Carefully designed drugs may be able to treat a variety of new and dangerous viruses, including the Nipah, Hendra and Ebola viruses, researchers reported on Thursday ... Bats are also suspected of carrying Ebola virus, which has killed several hundred people in outbreaks across Africa -- most recently 35 in Uganda this month. (Globe and Mail)
Rainforest Return Policy Dec 16, 2007
Uganda: Some 116 people have caught the deadly Ebola virus in western Uganda's Bundibugyo district, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 30 have died. Wildlife officials in the popular Rwenzori region were quick to assure visitors that national parks and tourist areas are outside the danger zones, and tourist facilities in the parks are clean and use good sanitary practices. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
CDC tries to curb Ebola in Uganda Dec 13, 2007
CDC scientists have converted an avian influenza lab inside the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe to help run diagnostic tests to determine whether illnesses are actually being caused by the Ebola virus ... Back at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, scientists are working to crack the genetic makeup of the new strain of Ebola virus that's causing the outbreak ... The Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was first recognized in 1976. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Lawmakers, specialists debate AIDS prevention funds Dec 12, 2007
Piot, who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1975 in then-Zaire and who has worked on AIDS since the mid-1980s, said he still believes that fighting the virus depended on using several intervention strategies at once. "You need to combine interventions. I'm deeply suspicious of the search for a magic bullet," he said. (Boston Globe)
Newsweek: At the Ebola outbreak Dec 12, 2007
But these aren't the best of times, and travelers here face a new risk: a mutated strain of the dreaded Ebola virus that has killed at least 28 people and is spreading panicand allegations of a government cover-upfar beyond this remote region of. Bundibugyo is at the , which began in August. (MSNBC -- International)
Uganda: Govt Steps Up Efforts to Curb Spread of Ebola Dec 12, 2007
KAMPALA City Council has put in place several measures, including the spraying of buses from western Uganda, in a bid to curb the spread of the Ebola virus ... Our enforcement officers are looking out for any defaulters," Mr Lule said in a telephone interview yesterday.The Ebola virus which is incurable, is transmitted through contact with an infected person, including sweat and saliva, but is not airborne.It appears that the Ebola spread toll is beginning to slow down. In yesterday's Ministry... (allAfrica.com)
FACTBOX - What is Ebola? Dec 9, 2007
Dec 6 (Reuters) - A new strain of the deadly Ebola virus is thought to have infected 93 people and killed at least 22 in Uganda, including a doctor and three other medical staff looking after patients, a health official said on Thursday ... -- The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognised ... -- The Ebola virus comprises four distinct subtypes: Zaire, Sudan,... (Reuters)
Newsweek: New strain of ebola hits Uganda Dec 8, 2007
By then Ssesabga had a bigger problem: he had contracted the new Ebola virus ... In the last week an outbreak of a new strain of the Ebola virus has ravaged villages across the rural districts of western Uganda. (MSNBC -- International)
Kenya moves to halt Ebola spread Dec 7, 2007
The Ebola virus is one of the world's most deadly. Kenya has set up screening centres on its borders with Uganda following an outbreak of the Ebola virus which has killed about 20 people. (BBC News -- Africa)
Ebola Kills Doctors As Death Toll Rises to 21 Dec 6, 2007
Two Ugandan doctors who had been helping in the fight against an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus have died, bringing the death toll to 21, officials said on 5 December. "The sad news today is that our doctor who was admitted to Mulago Hospital [in the capital, Kampala] died last night and a senior clinical officer who had been in a critical condition also died this morning," said Samuel Kazinga, resident district commissioner for Bundibugyo, the epicentre of the outbreak. (allAfrica.com)
More Cases Reported Dec 5, 2007
The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 in Sudan and in a nearby region of DRC, then Zaire. Outbreaks of Ebola have also occurred in the Ivory Coast and Gabon. (allAfrica.com)
Uganda says suspected Ebola cases rise to 75 Dec 5, 2007
KAMPALA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - At least 75 Ugandans are now suspected to have contracted a previously unknown strain of the lethal Ebola virus, although the death toll in the east African country remains at 18, an official said on Tuesday. Uganda confirmed on Sunday it had 58 cases of the virus, which causes symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding. (AlertNet)
Uganda: Mulago Gets Ebola Case Dec 4, 2007
Health experts say the incubation period for Ebola virus ranges from two to 21 days, depending on the strain and this could mean that it is only safer for people living in affected regions not to have unprotected sex since infected persons, may in the early days of infection, not show the known Ebola symptoms of measles-like body rash, high fever, red eye, vomiting and bleeding through body orifices. Goat origin. (allAfrica.com)
Ebola outbreak spreads in Uganda Dec 4, 2007
CDC Special Pathogens Branch chief Thomas Ksiazek said it was not yet clear whether the Ebola virus causing the current outbreak was more or less deadly than the previously known strains ... The Ebola virus has remained rare and mystifying since it was first discovered in DR Congo and Sudan in 1976 and other outbreaks have since hit Ivory Coast and Gabon. (iAfrica.com)
Uganda: Ebola - Mbarara, Fort Portal Put On High Alert Dec 3, 2007
SIX more people have been confirmed infected with the deadly Ebola virus, health officials said yesterday. This puts the number of infected people at 58, sixteen of whom have died since the outbreak of the deadly disease in August. (allAfrica.com)
New subtype of Ebola suspected in Uganda Dec 3, 2007
GENEVA (AP) A new form of the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in an outbreak in western Uganda that has so far killed 16 people, the World Health Organization said Friday. Tests conducted by a national lab in Uganda and confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the virus belongs to a different subtype than the four already known, said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Outbreak Of Rare Ebola Virus In Uganda Worsens Dec 3, 2007
KAMPALA - The number of Ugandans infected by a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus has risen to 58, raising fears the death toll of 18 will also increase from the outbreak in a remote area near Democratic Republic of Congo. The half dozen extra infections in recent days include some medical staff who were treating victims of the haemorrhagic fever which has swept the western Bundibugyo region since August. (Planet Ark, United States)
Death-toll rises from Uganda's Ebola outbreak Dec 2, 2007
KAMPALA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Two more Ugandans have died of a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus in an outbreak near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the death-toll to 18, health officials said on Saturday. "We have had two more deaths in the last 24 hours, and the disease continues to spread," Sam Zaramba, the Ugandan Health Ministry's director of health services, told Reuters. (AlertNet)
WHO concerned at new Ebola strain in Uganda Dec 1, 2007
GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation expressed concern on Friday about the emergence of a new strain of the Ebola virus that has infected 51 people and killed 16 in western Uganda. The outbreak, announced by U.S. and Ugandan health officials on Thursday, is in Bundibugyo, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo. (AlertNet)
New ebola found Dec 1, 2007 New deadly strain of Ebola emerges Nov 30, 2007 Ebola and other tropical viruses Nov 30, 2007 Uganda confirms 16 Ebola deaths Nov 30, 2007 Bridge to Nowhere Nov 30, 2007 New Ebola strain infects 51, kills 16 in Uganda Nov 30, 2007 How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas Nov 30, 2007 Plant-disease controls sap outbreak responses Nov 29, 2007 NASA Technology Helps Predict And Prevent Future Pandemic Outbreaks Nov 26, 2007 Tracking threatened species Nov 25, 2007 Recently Discovered Virus Associated With Pediatric Respiratory Tract Infection In Germany Nov 22, 2007 New Genetic Lineage Of Ebola Virus Discovered In Great Apes Nov 20, 2007 HIV vaccine may raise risk Nov 15, 2007 Where there's smoke . . . there's Dr. Siegel Nov 14, 2007 Please don't give my toddler toxic toys Nov 12, 2007 Health experts puzzled by mysterious Angola outbreak Nov 8, 2007 Gore is trying to make people think (575) Nov 8, 2007 Iran Chemical, Bio Weapons Threat Is Real Nov 8, 2007 Spike TV Television Highlights - December 2007 Nov 6, 2007 AIDS study spurs Haitian outrage Nov 1, 2007 Trust Of Locals Essential To Contain Marburg And Ebola Outbreaks Nov 1, 2007 Congo Ebola outbreak overestimated--Canada expert Oct 23, 2007 Responders simulate flu discovery Oct 6, 2007 Mishandling of germs on rise at U.S. labs Oct 5, 2007 Congo Ebola outbreak may soon be over Oct 3, 2007 Officials Confirm 7 More Cases of Ebola in Congo Sep 29, 2007 Congo-Kinshasa: Top UN Official Visits to Assess Security, Ebola Situation Sep 27, 2007 WHO Confirms 8 New Ebola Cases in Congo Sep 26, 2007 Biosafety lapses prompt govt. review Sep 26, 2007 Medical teams target Ebola outbreak Sep 24, 2007 New Ebola cases seen in DR Congo Sep 22, 2007 Upset residents vent at biolab hearing Sep 22, 2007 News Digest: Sep 22, 2007 UN Health Agency Finds Typhoid in Congo Amid Ebola Outbreak Sep 21, 2007 Congolese no longer kiss as Ebola seems to spread Sep 21, 2007 Security concern halted Wis. Ebola study Sep 21, 2007 Kenya Says Rift Valley Fever Returns, Two Dead Sep 21, 2007 Ebola spreading in DR Congo Sep 21, 2007 Teams On Ground to Allow for Quicker Diagnosis of Disease - UN Sep 21, 2007 Gorilla Receives State-Of-The-Art Treatment for Uterine Fibroids from Interventional Radiologists Sep 20, 2007 News from around Wisconsin at 6:28 a.m. CDT Sep 20, 2007 University of Wisconsin stopped Ebola study after NIH warning Sep 20, 2007 Ebola frontlineHealth worker dealing with DRC outbreak shares her diary Sep 19, 2007 Rwanda: Govt Screens DRC Travellers for Ebola Sep 19, 2007 WHAT'S UP DOC? Ebola is a virulent viral fever Sep 18, 2007 Winnipeggers to fight Ebola Sep 17, 2007 Ebola virus outbreak in central DR Congo claims 160 lives Sep 17, 2007 Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Sep 16, 2007 Future bleak for gorillas in the wild Sep 15, 2007 Biologists say over 40000 species at risk Sep 15, 2007 IUCNs Report Says 16.306 Species Are Facing Extinction Sep 14, 2007 Group: Ebola threatens gorilla recovery Sep 14, 2007 Extinction Crisis Escalates: Red List Shows Apes, Corals, Vultures, Dolphins All In Danger Sep 14, 2007 World Conservation Union adds to its list of species in peril Sep 14, 2007 Vultures vanishing - even scavengers face extinction Sep 14, 2007 Group Says Gorilla Is Near Extinction Sep 14, 2007 More animals and plants in the list of endangered species Sep 14, 2007 Planet Of No Apes? Experts Warn It's Close Sep 13, 2007 Major DR Congo Ebola outbreak Sep 13, 2007 Gorillas and coral at top of endangered list Sep 13, 2007 Nearly 200 species added to Red List Sep 13, 2007 Gorillas head race to extinction Sep 13, 2007 Congo calls for more help against Ebola Sep 13, 2007 Gorillas, Hammerhead Sharks at Risk - Red List Sep 13, 2007 Conservation Union Finds 16,300 Species Threatened Sep 13, 2007
New Ebola virus discovered by CDC ... Inside high-containment laboratories on Clifton Road in Atlanta, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week identified what appears to be a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus ... Dr. Thomas Ksiazek, chief of CDC's Special Pathogens Branch, said Friday it's not yet known whether the Ebola virus causing the current outbreak in Uganda's Bundibugyo District is any more or less deadly than the four previously known strains. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Fast Facts: Ethiopia Dec 1, 2007
Fiscal year: 8 July - 7 July africa headlines Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Commission Fails To Negotiate AgreementEarth Monitoring Meeting Shows Progress In Predicting Floods, Droughts And StormsThousands Of Sudanese Protest, Calling For British Teacher's Execution In Islam Insult CaseNew Subtype Of Ebola Virus Suspected In Uganda Outbreak, UN Health Agency Says world headlines Teacher's Lawyer Expects Presidential Pardon As British Muslim Delegation Arrives In SudanRed Cross Says That 7 Countries... (CBS News -- World)
A new strain of Ebola virus has infected 51 people and killed 16 in an area near Ugandas border with Democratic Republic of Congo, U.S. health experts said on Thursday. Analysis of samples taken from some of the victims show it is a previously unknown type of Ebola, a team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. (MSNBC -- Health)
The Ebola virus is deadly. Theories on the origins of the 30 or more new diseases to affect humans over the past two decades are widespread, but many of the most frightening appear to have emerged from sub-Saharan Africa. (BBC News -- Health)
A haemorrhagic fever that has killed 16 people and infected more than 50 others in Uganda has been confirmed as the deadly Ebola virus. The casualties are all in the region of Bundibugyo, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. (BBC News -- Health)
In the Nov. 25 Binghamton Press ulletin, columnist David Rossie explains that the United States, thanks to the Cheney/Bush administration, is about as popular world-wide as the Ebola virus ... In the Nov. 25 Binghamton Press ulletin, columnist David Rossie explains that the United States, thanks to the Cheney/Bush administration, is about as popular world-wide as the Ebola virus. (Townhall.com)
KAMPALA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A new strain of the deadly Ebola virus has infected 51 people and killed 16 in an area of Uganda near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, U.S. and Ugandan health officials said on Thursday. "The mysterious disease outbreak in Bundibugyo has now been confirmed to be Ebola disease," Dr. Sam Zaramba, the Ugandan Health Ministry's director of health services, said in a statement. (AlertNet)
14, 2001) The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is working to prevent the recent Ebola virus outbreak from decimating wild populations of gorillas, chimpanzees and other wildlife in Gabon and. (Aug. (Science Daily)
The researchers say that the plan to subject rice and citrus disease agents to the same restrictions as Ebola virus and anthrax are ill-conceived and will limit the response to a natural outbreak. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to add four plant pathogens to the government's list of 'select agents. (Nature News Service)
21, 2005) All recent Ebola virus outbreaks in humans in forests between Gabon and the Republic of Congo were the result of handling infected wild animal carcasses, according to a study by the Wildlife. (Oct. (Science Daily)
Hunted for its meat and susceptible to the Ebola virus, the western gorilla of Central Africa moved from "endangered" to "critically endangered." Fishing, boat traffic, and pollution appear to have driven the Yangtze River dolphin to extinction, although scientists have not officially confirmed it. Wellington's solitary coral, native to the Galapagos Islands, was added to the list this year. (Boston Globe)
21, 2007) A topical respiratory tract vaccine tested for the first time in a primate model may protect against Ebola virus infection. Ebola virus is a highly contagious form of severe hemorrhagic fever with a. (Science Daily)
27, 2005) Over the past ten years, separate outbreaks of the deadly Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) have killed hundreds of humans and tens of thousands of great apes in Gabon and the Republic of Congo. (Feb. (Science Daily)
Hopes for a future vaccine against the devastating Ebola virus may have been set back by the results of a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine. J.-M. BOUJU/AP. (Nature News Service)
I guess Boston University professor Dr. Michael Siegel won't be getting invited to the "right" dinner parties in towns like Newton and Brookline, where whiffs of secondhand smoke are equated with a release of Ebola virus. Siegel has just published a heretical paper in the journal Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations analyzing the purported effects of secondhand smoke. (Boston Globe)
Maybe it will be a teddy bear with the Ebola virus or a baby rattle full of crack rocks. I don't know, but for now, I'm glad I don't have kids. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Some 150 Angolans died in 2004-2005 after contracting Marburg virus, a close relative of the feared Ebola virus. The oil-rich southwestern African nation is struggling to rebuild its health system, which was devastated during a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002. (AlertNet)
NSN Lodian wrote on Nov 6, 2007 11:43 PM:" Gore Claim #8: global warming is causing outbreaks dengue fever, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, arena virus, avian flu, Ebola virus, and other diseases... THE TRUTH: None of the diseases named by Gore in his film or in the accompanying book, is sensitive to increasing temperature. They are spread not by warmer weather but by rats, chickens, primates, pigs, poor hygiene, ill-maintained air conditioning, or cold weather. ". NSN Lodian wrote on Nov 6, 2007... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
An attack on Iran could trigger horrific retaliation against the U.S. and her allies in the Middle East with chemical and biological weapons including nerve gas, anthrax, and a germ similar to the devastating Ebola virus. While the U.S. has not overtly threatened to bomb Irans burgeoning nuclear facilities, it has warned of using the military option. (Newsmax)
Sunday, December 30 1:00 - 4:00 PM, ET/PT DIE HARD: WITH A VENGEANCE (1995, Action/ Thriller) 4:00 - 5:00 PM, ET/PT & 9:00 - 10:00 PM, ET/PT CSI: CROW'S FEET A woman is found dead in a hotel suite with symptoms of the Ebola virus. Another woman is found dead with similar symptoms. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
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21, 2007) Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) belong to the Filoviridae family and cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates. Filovirus infections are characterized by high fever. (Science Daily)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Initial estimates of the number of infections and deaths linked to the recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo probably were too high, a Canadian scientist said on Monday ... It has been about 21 days -- the time the Ebola virus takes to incubate -- since the last confirmed infection, so international teams like the Canadian unit are leaving the area, Feldmann said. (AlertNet)
"There are about 150 emerging or reemerging diseases, like the ebola virus, like the West Nile virus, antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, Rift-Valley fever, and 75 percent of those are zoonotic, or transmittable from animal to human," Pue said. "There are a lot of different scenarios where all of these people might be confronted with a problem. It could be a bioterrorism event, where agents of bioterrorism, like brucellosis, or anthrax or tularemia or hemoragic fever, 90 percent of the potential... (Carthage Press, MO)
was grazed by a needle in February 2004 and exposed to the deadly Ebola virus after a mouse kicked a syringe. She was placed in an isolation ward called "The Slammer," but the Army said she did not become ill. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
LONDON - With only two patients left in an isolation ward Tuesday, doctors are hopeful an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo may soon be contained. But because people can carry Ebola for up to three weeks before getting sick, experts say it's too soon to consider the outbreak over. (MSNBC -- International)
KINSHASA, Congo Field doctors have confirmed seven new cases of the deadly Ebola virus in Congo, bringing the total number of people to have contracted the illness here to 24, the Health Ministry said. Two mobile testing laboratories confirmed the latest cases in Kampunga, a small district in the province of Kasai Occidental, said Dr. Benoit Kebela, director-general of Congo's Health Ministry. (Fox News)
Concerned over the political and security situation on the ground, as well the threat to United Nations staff posed by the deadly Ebola virus, the world body's top official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has just concluded a visit to the city of Kananga in the western Kasai province. The Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN mission (MONUC) William Lacy Swing impressed upon local officials during his visit to the province yesterday that the decision to move... (allAfrica.com)
A trusted source of newsand information since 1942. " Six of the 17 people to contract the disease in what the World Health Organization is calling the first major resurgence in years have died. Ebola is characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, fever, pain as well as internal and external bleeding. About 400 people have become ill in the affected Kasai region in the past few months and about 170 have died. But the symptoms of Ebola look like other diseases, such as typhoid, so proper identification... (Voice of America)
The group also disclosed last week that researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison made and manipulated copies of the Ebola virus genome in a level III lab when the work should have been done at level IV. The inquiry identified similar concerns about research into Ebola and Lassa Virus DNA at Tulane University. Terry Devitt, spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin at Madison said the Ebola researchers were not attempting to skirt regulation. (The Scientist)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in years. Only nine cases of the disease have been confirmed by laboratory tests. (Indianapolis Star)
The World Health Organisation says nine further cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 174 people in the country's West Kasai region have died so far in the current outbreak. (BBC News)
The proposed biolab, which is under construction on the BU Medical Campus in the South End and scheduled for completion next year, will deal with some of the world's most deadly agents, including the Ebola virus and anthrax. The NIH released a study Aug. 24 detailing different simulations used to calculate risk in all proposed locations, and a spokeswoman noted the biolab did not pose a greater risk in a densely populated area as opposed to a more suburban or rural setting. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Study of Ebola virus stopped because ... (AP) University of Wisconsin-Madison research on the deadly Ebola virus was conducted for a year in a less-secure laboratory than required, until the National Institutes of Health alerted the school to the problem. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
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KINSHASA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Villagers don't kiss anymore in a corner of Democratic Republic of Congo hit by the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus. People began falling ill in April in Kampungu, Western Kasai province, centre of an outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever that has no cure or treatment and kills 50-90 percent of its victims. (AlertNet)
(AP) University of Wisconsin-Madison research on the deadly Ebola virus was conducted for a year in a less-secure laboratory than required, until the National Institutes of Health alerted the school to the problem ... "We want to understand why Ebola virus is so deadly so that we can develop counter measures to prevent humans from dying as a result of infection with this virus," he said. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Officials had first worried that the two women who died in Nakuru district, a tourist hotspot, had the Ebola virus, which broke out last week in nearby Democratic Republic of Congo. "This is not an Ebola outbreak, it is Rift Valley fever," government spokesman Alfred Mutua told reporters in Nairobi. (Planet Ark, United States)
A suspected death from the Ebola virus has been reported in a new province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where more than 170 people are now feared to have died from the disease in four months. The new case was in East Kasai, a central province neighbouring the West Kasai where the latest outbreak was first reported. (iAfrica.com)
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners now have substantial teams in the field in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where nine cases of the deadly Ebola virus has been confirmed, it was announced today ... Of some 400 cases of illness and 170 deaths reported since April in the western Kasai Province, nine cases of the haemorrhagic Ebola virus, which causes death in 50 to 90 per cent of cases, have been confirmed ... The Ebola virus is transmitted by direct... (AllAfrica.com)
Western Lowland gorillas are dwindling in the wild, due to poaching and outbreaks of the Ebola virus. Over the years, Beta has had her share of specialists assisting in her health care. (PR Newswire)
(AP) _ The University of Wisconsin-Madison allowed a star researcher to study material that could be used to produce the Ebola virus in a lab less secure than what's required under federal guidelines. The study was stopped last fall after a National Institutes of Health official told the university the material must be contained at labs with the highest level of security, or Biosafety Level 4. (Rhinelander Daily News, WI)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison allowed a star researcher to study material that could be used to produce the Ebola virus in a lab less secure than what s required under federal guidelines ... The federally funded study aimed to better understand the Ebola virus, one of the most dangerous pathogens on earth. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Zoe Young of the medical NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), shares her diary with the BBC News Website from the Democratic Republic of Congo where she is dealing with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus ... The Ebola virus is deadly. (BBC News)
"We try to make follow-up on those people for twenty-one days to establish whether there are no signs of Ebola virus," he added ... "The Ministry has sensitised them about the dangers of Ebola virus," he told journalists at the Treatment and Research Aids Centre (Trac). (allAfrica.com)
There have been four different strains of Ebola virus identified: Ebola Zaire (EZ), Ebola Sudan, Ebola Ivory Coast and Ebola Reston ... The one person known to develop symptoms from Ebola Ivory Coast survived, while the mortality rate for EZ, the most virulent of the Ebola viruses, has been 60 percent to 90 percent in the recorded outbreaks ... One of the mysteries of Ebola viruses (as well as Marburg virus) is where it is harbored between outbreaks. (MetroWest Daily News)
WINNIPEG -- A team of Winnipeg scientists is going to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help contain an outbreak of the Ebola virus. It's the county's first major outbreak of the virus in 12 years. (Canoe.ca)
At least 160 people have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal haemorrhagic Ebola virus in the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported, announcing that it is rushing medical and supplies to the region to try to contain the disease. Laboratory analysis conducted in Gabon and the United States on samples taken from cases in the outbreak have confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus, which causes death in 50 to 90 per... (SpiritIndia)
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are urgently searching for around 100 people believed to have been in contact with victims of the deadly Ebola virus, the government said on Friday. "We are looking for all people who may have been in contact with the sick who are presenting symptoms of Ebola or of Shigellose," said DRC Secretary General of Health Benoit Kebelo. (Mail & Guardian Online)
A strain of the Ebola virus has felled it in droves. The virus, said Stoinski, is especially troubling. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is now listed as critically endangered because of the bushmeat trade and infection with the Ebola virus (Image: M Watson / www ... Researchers have uncovered a sudden fall in numbers of the main subspecies, the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), because of the bushmeat trade and Ebola virus. (ABC Science Online)
The commercial meat trade and the Ebola virus were quoted as the reasons of this decline. "All species are dependent on each other," said Peter Walsh, an IUCN assessor who specializes in gorillas. (eFluxMedia (press release))
Conservation group: Ebola virus depleting Western Gorilla populations ... The Western Lowland Gorilla has been decimated by the Ebola virus ... The Ebola virus is depleting Western Gorilla populations to a point where it might become impossible for them to recover. (CNN -- Tech)
The Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) has moved from Endangered to Critically Endangered, after the discovery that the main subspecies, the Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), has been decimated by the commercial bushmeat trade and the Ebola virus. Their population has declined by more than 60% over the last 20-25 years, with about one third of the total population found in protected areas killed by the Ebola virus over the last 15 years. (Science Daily)
Its main subspecies, the western lowland gorilla, has been decimated by the Ebola virus, which has wiped out about a third of the gorillas found in protected areas over the last 15 years, IUCN said. Commercial hunting, civil unrest and habitat loss due to logging and forest clearance for palm oil plantations are compounding the problem. (International Herald Tribune)
The gorillas have been hit by the commercial bush meat trade and the Ebola virus. About one-third of the animals living in protected areas were killed by Ebola in the past 15 years. (Globe and Mail)
" In all, 16,306 wildlife species are threatened with extinction, which is 188 more than last year, IUCN said. Twenty-five percent of mammals are in jeopardy, as are 13 percent of birds, 33 percent of amphibians and 70 percent of plants that have been studied. The western gorilla's main subspecies - the western lowland gorilla - has been savaged by the Ebola virus, which has wiped out about one-third of the gorillas found in protected areas during the past 15 years. "In the last 10 years, Ebola... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
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The Ebola virus is depleting populations to a point where it might become impossible for them to recover ... The Western Gorilla's main subspecies - the Western Lowland Gorilla - has been decimated by the Ebola virus, which has wiped out about a third of the gorillas found in protected areas over the last 15 years. (CBS News)
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been confirmed by the World Health Organization in Kasai province. At least 166 people have died and WHO says it is aware of 372 other cases. (BBC News)
The Ebola virus plus the commercial bushmeat trade has been detrimental to the gorilla's existence. The Yangtze River dolphin is possibly extinct, according to the list. (CTV.ca)
Its decline is due to the Ebola virus and commercial hunting of so-called bush meat. "In the last 10 years, Ebola is the single largest killer of apes. Poaching is a close second," said Peter Walsh, a member of IUCN's primate specialist group. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Forest clearance has allowed hunters access to previously inaccessible areas; and the Ebola virus has followed, wiping out one-third of the total gorilla population in protected areas, and up to 95% in some regions. Ebola has moved through the western lowland gorilla's rangelands in western central Africa from the southwest to the northeast. (BBC News -- Science)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) Congo's health minister called for more help Wednesday in combating an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has killed at least five people in the first major outbreak here in 12 years. A team of experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has arrived in southeastern Congo to back up local medical and health personnel, Health Minister Makwenge Kaput told The Associated Press in an interview. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
The number of gorillas, found in several central African nations, has fallen by 60 percent in the last 20-25 years because of the Ebola virus and hunting. Logging has opened up roads for hunters to reach once impenetrable forests. (Planet Ark, United States)
Its decline is due to the Ebola virus and commercial hunting of so-called bush meat. This case points up the need for better viral controls, and for an alternative source of food for people in the gorilla's range, from Angola to Congo to Gabon. (Planet Ark, United States)
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