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Ebola virusi

Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by ebola viruses that typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. The death rate for humans with the disease could be as high as 90 per cent. 

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  • The UN health agency is convening over 300 scientists to figure out which viruses and bacteria could potentially spark another international outbreak
  • They will also consider the so-called ‘Disease X’ – an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious worldwide epidemic
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No treatment or vaccine exists for Marburg, which is almost as deadly as Ebola. Its symptoms include high fever as well as internal and external bleeding.

‘Things are changing [but] it is not enough. We’re just starting,’ chief Tedros Ghebreyesus about making far-reaching changes following horrifying revelations of widespread abuse by humanitarian workers in 2020.

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The initial positive test on August 14 led Ivory Coast to declare its first Ebola outbreak in more than 25 years. Ebola typically kills about half of those it infects.

Mystery surrounds Dr Qiu Xiangguo and her husband amid a two-year police investigation, a shipment of viruses to Wuhan, internet conspiracy theories, and a wall of official silence.

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The company’s phase three trial of its Ad5-nCoV vaccine candidate is being tested on some 40,000 participants in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Mexico.

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They handle disease pathogens capable of killing millions of people, so how safe are the world's Biosafety Level 4 research laboratories?

Recovery plans for economies across the world must include the development of a new strategic approach to prevent the health, climate and environmental disasters caused by human activity

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The international community has failed to agree on obligations countries have to share genetic sequence data, the authors of a paper in Science magazine say.

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WHO-EIB pact follows a freeze in funding from WHO’s largest contributor – the US – over allegations that it is too deferential to China.

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Experts say it is ‘highly unlikely’ the new coronavirus behind the Covid-19 pandemic was accidentally released from the virology institute, but it continues to draw attention as a possible origin.

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The history of medicine abounds with ‘examples of drugs that worked on paper or in a test tube but were actually harmful’, WHO chief says as cases of the respiratory ailment caused by the coronavirus surge worldwide.