In a development that could change the way the deadly Ebola disease is fought, researchers have announced promising results of a new vaccine’s trial in Guinea, one of several countries affected by a historic outbreak in West Africa. “The estimated vaccine…
Ebola Medic Flown to Germany for Anonymity
A South Korean medic exposed to Ebola while working in West Africa has been flown to Germany for infectious disease treatment because the patient’s anonymity would be better protected there, authorities in Berlin said Saturday. Doctors at Berlin’s renowned Charite hospital…
Ebola Health Lessons: A Wake-up Call
This isn’t the first Ebola outbreak the world has seen. First identified in 1976, Ebola has emerged sporadically over the last few decades, most often occurring in remote villages in Africa. But the current outbreak, the largest on record, begs the…
Five More Ebola Vaccines To Be Tested in March
The World Health Organization says millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines, part of the ongoing WHO Ebola update, could be ready for use in 2015. Still, the agency warned it’s not clear whether any of these will work against…
NIH Begins Early Human Clinical Trial of New Ebola Vaccine
Human testing of a second investigational Ebola vaccine candidate is under way at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are conducting the early phase trial to…
Ebola airport checks expand; nurses get training
The federal government is closing a gap in Ebola screening at airports while states from New York to Texas to California work to get hospitals and nurses ready in case another patient turns up somewhere in the U.S. with the deadly…
Why Ebola Kills Some People, Others Survive
People who shared an apartment with the country’s first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two U.S. nurses were infected caring for him, there are successes, too: A nurse infected in Spain has…
Chimerix Gets FDA OK to Test Drug for Ebola
A North Carolina drugmaker plans to test its experimental antiviral drug in patients who have Ebola, after getting authorization from regulators at the Food and Drug Administration. Chimerix Inc. said that it has received FDA clearance to proceed with a trial…
Ebola Death Rate Rises to 70%
West Africa could face up to 10,000 new Ebola cases a week within two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday, adding that the Ebola mortality rate in the current outbreak has risen to 70 percent. WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce…
CDC Urges All U.S. Hospitals to Think ‘Ebola’
The government is urging Ebola Preparedness Hospitals nationwide to “think Ebola.” Every hospital must know how to diagnose Ebola in people who have been in West Africa and be ready to isolate a suspected case, Tom Frieden, director of the Centers…