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Blackflies may be responsible for nodding syndrome in South Sudan, North Uganda: Study

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PRESS RELEASE Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of nodding syndrome (NS), a disabling disease affecting African children. A new report suggests that blackflies...

Ebola: Delaware St. University prof, Dr. Cyril Broderick, says Africans do not deserve to be treated like guinea pigs

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An article that some, if not many, would consider controversial and conspiratorial was published in the Liberian Observer and has raised a lot of eyebrows as a Delaware State University plant pathology...

New Orleans: Malaria is the diagnosis of Liberian ship crew member

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Crew members on board a Liberian vessel headed for New Orleans do not have Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) according to a statement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday night. CDC,...

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Nigeria: Suspected Ebola case in Obafemi Awolowo University student

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A female college student at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has been admitted for treatment since Monday with suspected Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ife. According...

Ebola situation in Liberia: ‘number of new cases is increasing exponentially’

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During the past weeks, a WHO team of emergency experts worked together with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and members of her government to assess the Ebola situation in Liberia. Transmission of the...

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Senegal Ebola patient in ‘satisfactory’ condition

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In a follow-up to the news of the first case of Ebola in Senegal, the country’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare reports the patient, a student at a university in Guinea Conakry, is in “satisfactory”...

Single animal to human transmission event responsible for 2014 Ebola outbreak

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Scientists used advanced genomic sequencing technology to identify a single point of infection from an animal reservoir to a human in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This research has also revealed...

Community-acquired MRSA found in Europe originated in Africa: Study

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The predominant strain of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infecting people in Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa derived from a single sub-Saharan ancestor,...

Ebola news: DRC update, ‘unprecedented’ number of health workers infected

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In a press briefing today by the UN Information Service, Tarik Jasarevic said concerning the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak: “The WHO had been notified by...

Democratic Republic of the Congo ‘mystery disease’ not Ebola: WHO

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An unidentified disease that has killed dozens in the Djera, Tshuapa district of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past month is not Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), according to a World Health...