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There is no approved vaccine to curb the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. But new funding offers hope.
10 years after official end of the Ebola pandemic, very few people know that survivors have struggled to continue with their lives.
While other forms of Ebola can be prevented with a vaccine, none are currently available to prevent this rare strain.
The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 shot.
Sierra Leone was one of three countries ravaged by the Ebola epidemic 10 years ago. A national vaccine campaign is a big step towards preventing future outbreaks.
The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
There has been an epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea for the first time. Here’s what you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads.
Although treatments for Ebola have helped many people overcome this deadly disease, the virus can persist in the brain and cause a lethal relapse.
Many African countries are experienced in managing outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers and many of the lessons learnt from the Ebola can be applied to the Marburg outbreak.
The Marburg virus will be present wherever the Egyptian Rousette bat occurs.
Experts assess Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 so far and express worry that the country does not appear to have learnt much; it isn’t prepared for the next pandemic.
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it’s not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it’s usually here to stay.
There aren’t enough international and domestic laws to address how the interests of humans and the needs of wildlife overlap.
Before a vaccine is available to teach your immune system to ward off the coronavirus, maybe you can directly use molecules that have already fought it in other people.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
In a health crisis, decisions about treatment and containment must be made quickly. It’s crucial those decisions be based on research evidence, but fast and easy access is not always available.
While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.
The current outbreak refuses to give in to efforts by an international team of health care workers, armed with vaccines and treatment that did not even exist during previous episodes.
Nearly everything known about Ebola virus persistence in the reproductive system has resulted from testing semen of West African Ebola virus disease survivors.
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Principal Medical Scientist (PhD MPH), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Head of the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Postdoctoral Researcher, MRC-Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
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