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Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever hits Turkey
Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) has killed at least 20 people in Turkey, in the largest outbreak of it ever reported since it was identified in 1944, say the authorities. According to the...
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Early Warning System To Predict Zoonotic Outbreaks
The World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation of Animal Health (OAH) have decided to set up an early warning system in order to spread...
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Sierra Leone Gears Up for Lassa Fever Outbreak
Health Minister of Sierra Leone, Soccoh Kabia, said on Thursday that Medical and aid official in the country are preparing for an anticipated outbreak of Lassa fever. The disease claims about 200...
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Treatment for Hemorrhagic Fever on the Anvil Following New Discovery
A major biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells - a finding that may provide potential treatment for hemorrhagic fever has been identified by scientists at...
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Model may Need a Rethink
The dogma of the antibody-dependent enhancement model (ADE) for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is being challenged by research published this week in IPLoS Medicine/I. Dengue virus...
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Lassa Fever Outbreak Claims Its Third Victim in Sierra Leone
A South African civil engineer has become the third fatal victim of an outbreak of Lassa Fever in northern Sierra Leone, a health ministry official said Thursday. While the acute viral haemorrhagic...
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WHO Says There are 500,000 Lassa Fever Cases Each Year in West Africa
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday that there are an estimated 500,000 people in west Africa infected with lassa fever every year. This data was released amid calls for more money to...
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Outbreak of Lassa fever Claims Forty Lives in Nigeria
Nearly 40 people in Nigeria are dead after an outbreak of Lassa fever, according to a recent communication from a senior health official. "We have 40 deaths, including two doctors and six nurses, from...
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Researchers Explore Treatments For Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
A daunting challenge was faced when University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers set out to study Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. The deadly virus requires biosafety level 4...
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Decrease in Large Wildlife Population Drives an Increase in Zoonotic Diseases
Large wildlife Populations are declining around the world, while zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from animals to humans) are on the rise. A team of Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have...
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Lassa Fever Kills Eight in Benin, 170 Under Observation
An outbreak of Lassa fever in West African, Benin has killed Eight people and 170 people are under observation, officials said on Thursday. Fourteen suspected cases of the virus have been identified,...
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Ebola Tested Negative but Haemorrhagic Fever Alert in Gujarat and Rajasthan
In spite of fears, a 35-year-old man from Jodhpur, India was admitted to AIIMS on Tuesday that he had contracted Ebola. He died the next morning due to excessive internal bleeding. The patient has...
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Lassa Fever Outbreak In Nigeria Claims 40 Lives
In a suspected outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria nearly forty people have died in 10 states across the country, said Health Minister Isaac Adewole. "The total number (of suspected cases) reported is...
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Rat Poison Sales Boom in Nigeria Over Fear of Lassa Fever Epidemic
Lassa fever outbreaks are not uncommon and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are between 100,000 to 300,000 infections in west Africa every year, with about 5,000...
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Predicting Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks Using Environmental Changes
Zoonotic diseases are those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika. More than 60% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and although Ebola and Zika are well-known, there...
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New Treatment Protects Against Lassa Fever
Lassa fever is a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus. Laser therapy was effective in preventing the progression of the deadly virus in nonhuman primates up to eight days...
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Zoonotic TB Survivor Resolves to Make Her Community TB-free: World...
Dressed in colorful attire, Timpiyian Leseni from the Maasai tribe of Africa, turned many heads at the first-ever "WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A...
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Vaccine Against Junin Virus can also Disarm Another Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
Antibodies against one hemorrhagic fever virus called Junin may help disarm a related virus called Machupo, finds a new study. The findings of this study are published in the INature Communications/I...
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New Vaccine Shows Promise Against Lassa Fever and Rabies
Novel vaccine developed to protect people from both Lassa fever and rabies showed promise in preclinical testing, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal iNature...
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Sierra Leone Gears Up for Lassa Fever Outbreak
Health Minister of Sierra Leone, Soccoh Kabia, said on Thursday that Medical and aid official in the country are preparing for an anticipated outbreak of Lassa fever. The disease claims about 200...
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