Tag: ebola
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Biotech Regeneron replaces Intel as sponsor of Science Talent Search
By Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Thursday became the title sponsor of the most prestigious U.S. science competition for high school students, taking the baton from chipmaker Intel Corp. Regeneron pledged $100 million to support the Science Talent Search and related programs through 2026, and doubled awards for…
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Lessons Not Yet Learned: Ebola, Zika and Global Health Security
Despite a decade of lessons learned from fighting global health disasters like avian flu, SARS, and most recently Ebola, the United States continues to use an ineffective 'crisis-by-crisis' approach to combat health emergencies. With the Zika virus now challenging domestic and international health care infrastructures, we need a comprehensive…
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Dartmouth coach: Tackle-free practice reduces concussions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens makes a promise to recruited players before they take the field: “In four years, you will never tackle another Dartmouth football player.”
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As Ebola flares up, Guinea plans to vaccinate contacts of survivors
By Saliou Samb and James Harding Giahyue CONAKRY/MONROVIA (Reuters) – Guinea will soon vaccinate people who have come into contact with more than 500 men who have recovered from Ebola, a senior health official said, the first time it has vaccinated the contacts of survivors. The decision reflects research that indicates Ebola can remain in…
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As Ebola flares up, Guinea plans to vaccinate contacts of survivors
By Saliou Samb and James Harding Giahyue CONAKRY/MONROVIA (Reuters) – Guinea will soon vaccinate people who have come into contact with more than 500 men who have recovered from Ebola, a senior health official said, the first time it has vaccinated the contacts of survivors. The decision reflects research that indicates Ebola can remain in…
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Fourth person dies of Ebola in latest flare up in Guinea
A fourth person has died of Ebola in Guinea in the latest flare up of an epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people in that country, Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013 but now claims few victims. “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is dead,” said Fode…
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Italy rescues 910 boat migrants, nearly 600 saved off Libya
MILAN/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Italy’s coast guard said more than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on Saturday, while Libyan authorities said they had rescued nearly 600 migrants from four boats, one of which sank. A spokesman for Libyan naval forces, Ayoub Qassem, said the bodies of four dead…
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WHO experts in Cape Verde to monitor Zika, microcephaly case
The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched a team to Cape Verde to monitor a Zika virus outbreak following the west African archipelago's first recorded microcephaly case. “WHO is sending a team to Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), with joint participation of experts from WHO AFRO and the Institut Pasteur, Dakar,” it said, referring to a…
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Lorries begin moving Beirut’s mountains of trash to landfill: council
Lorries began taking mountains of rubbish that have piled up in Beirut to a landfill site on Saturday under a plan the government approved to solve the seven-month garbage crisis, the body helping oversee disposal said. The crisis, which began last July when the same Naameh landfill south of Beirut was closed with no plan…
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British Ebola survivor discharged from hospital
A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone in 2014 was discharged from hospital in London on Sunday, five days after being admitted with complications, a statement said. Pauline Cafferkey was successfully treated within weeks of her diagnosis but suffered a relapse in October 2015, when she became critically ill with meningitis…