Ebola virus
The horrific Ebola virus killed thousands in the worst outbreak the world has seen when it hit West and Central Africa in 2014. The fast-spreading virus which ...
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Mrs Wood and Ms Cafferkey were among volunteers returning from fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone in December 2014 when they were screened.
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A strain that emerged during the latest epidemic is able to enter human cells more easily—which means it's more infectious, too.
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An estimated 10-80% of people who show symptoms of Ebola virus disease die, depending on their access to intensive care. However, scientists have also seen some evidence that a minority of people may catch the Ebola virus without developing symptoms ...
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According to a new study conducted by the Stanford University School of Medicine, approximately 25 percent of individuals in a Sierra Leone village were infected with Ebola virus disease but showed no symptoms, which suggests a broader transmission of ...
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ATLANTA—More than two years after the explosive Ebola epidemic in West Africa, researchers have identified a number of people who were infected with the deadly virus but didn't report being sick, suggesting the outbreak may have been more widespread ...
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WROUGHTON Airfield was at the centre of an Ebola row over the weekend after The Grand Tour host, Jeremy Clarkson, compared its unique shape to the deadly virus. The show, which is being broadcast by Amazon Prime, is Clarkson's, Richard Hammond ...
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Created by CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith, this transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion. Ebola is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates ...
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The Ebola virus is spread through bodily fluids including saliva and sweat, and those who had worked in Sierra Leone were operating under the same strict “no touch” protocols as the public under the state emergency laws.
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But Jeremy Clarkson's show The Grand Tour has brought with it the familiar whiff of controversy thanks to a tasteless joke about ebola. The resemblance of a racetrack in his Amazon Prime series to a magnified image of thevirus led Clarkson to dub it ...
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She then nearly died again when she later developed meningitis as a result of the Ebola virus. Before travelling to Sierra Leone, Wood was a senior sister at Haywood hospital in Burslem, near Stoke on Trent, and had been nursing for 29 years.
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Harvesting of the 2016 paddy crop, virtually the only cereal grown in the country, is underway. Rains started on time for the 2016‑cropping season and were ...
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Donna Wood has been found by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to have concealed the high temperature of her fellow volunteer Pauline Cafferkey when they landed at Heathrow a day before the Scottish nurse tested positive for the virus. An independent ...
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The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) recently awarded $596,533 to Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPI) to develop a partnership with the Texas Biomedical Research Institute to repurpose an antimalarial for use against ...
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WROUGHTON Airfield was at the centre of an Ebola row over the weekend after The Grand Tour host, Jeremy Clarkson, compared its unique shape to the deadly virus. The show, which is being broadcast by Amazon Prime, is Clarkson's, Richard Hammond ...
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However, scattered clusters of cases have been reported every few months, and medical experts caution that no one should conclude that the deadly virus is no longer a risk. They hope that better preparation for future outbreaks and rapid testing tools ...
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