ebola virus and the World Health Organization

A Nollywood film on Nigeria's resilience during the Ebola virus outbreak in the country was on Friday night screened at Hollywood, Los Angeles, in a ... The film explained that over that 93-day period, men and women from Nigeria, the World Health Organisation and Doctors Without Borders raced against ...

Nigeria experienced the Ebola virus in July, 2014 when a Liberian American, Patrick Sawyer, who had the disease flew from Liberia to the Murtala Muhammed ... The film explained that over that 93-day period, men and women from Nigeria, the World Health Organisation and Doctors Without Borders raced ...

People pass a banner reading 'STOP EBOLA' forming part of Sierra Leone's Ebola free campaign in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Friday, Jan. ... Because of concerns about disease transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO), which coordinated the international response to the outbreak, ...

“It's not a matter of if — but when — there will be another Ebola or Zika, and right now, the world isn't ready,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who led the .... our buck with World Health,” Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, said of the World Health Organization's investment in the partnership during a ...

WHO's work alongside governments, scientists and private entities "resulted in the first ever fully effective vaccine against Ebola, developed and tested in 12 months as opposed to the 5-10 years such a process would normally take," said Kieny, who welcomed the opportunity to use her Ebola experience to ...

This year's outbreak has reached 18 of Nigeria's 36 states, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). While it is the largest ever recorded in Nigeria, it's also part of an upward trend in cases. There were more than 700 suspected cases in 2017, and more than 900 in 2016 — up from 430 in 2015.

"Our goal is to make an antibody-based therapy that can protect against all strains of Ebola, and potentially Marburg virus, as well," says Prof. Sarah Wootton, Department of Pathobiology, who, along with PhD student Laura van Lieshout, found a new way to fight Ebola. "It would be used to stop the spread ...

ASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration will have to explain to a court this week why it won't shed more light on an internal decision to allow at least two Americans who contracted Ebola to take a drug that wasn't yet approved. It's the latest salvo in a legal case that could have broader ...

It's being led by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka who has studied the Ebola vaccine for more than a decade. "We currently have no treatment for Ebola and we have to come up with something," said Rebecca Moritz, who is a bio-safety expert with the University of Wisconsin. Ebola is a rare, and deadly virus, ...