The (WFP) said the Ebola crisis response “needs to scale up, get better and perform faster,” as the UN health agency reported that if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard...
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has dramatically raised awareness of the global burden of infectious disease and raised questions about the preparedness of public health systems. Although non-communicable...
A potentially breathable, respiratory vaccine in development has been shown to provide long-term protection for non-human primates against the deadly Ebola virus, as reported this week in the online edition of the...
A South San Francisco company is developing an Ebola vaccine that can be administered by tablet rather than injection. Privately-held Vaxart said after a recent meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration it...
Tests reveal certain strains survive for weeks when stored at low temperatures. The number of confirmed Ebola cases passed the 10,000 mark, despite efforts to curb its spread. And while the disease typically dies on...
No vaccines or drugs are available yet to protect people worldwide against Ebola virus disease, but two potential vaccines are in human safety testing, and scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of...
Rapid detection of viruses among potential applications of research at UC Santa Cruz. In 2010, Ahmet Ali Yanik published his first paper on the rapid detection of Ebola virus using new biosensor technology, he and...
Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics In our hyper-connected world, we can no longer dismiss certain threats as being “over there”. Local phenomena can have global...
As many as several hundred thousand doses of two leading experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday, according to Reuters. Human trials for the treatment candidates...
Epidemics like the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa often get started when people make contact with animals carrying infectious diseases, but, paradoxically, a certain amount of human exposure to a virus at its...