Angola Closes Border to Avoid Ebola Spread

It was just last month that the Philippines meat markets suffered a blow from the "Ebola" scare. Later knowing that the strain believed to have infected swine has a non-lethal effect to humans, the Reston...

Deadly ebola outbreak strikes southern DRC

By Miriam Mannak (from Lubumbashi / DRC) An ebola outbreak in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed nine people. About 92 are believed to be infected with the deadly virus. The epicenter of...

Uganda: Nation On Ebola Alert

[Ed.note] This is extremely serious and dangerous. Breaking news from allAfrica: THE government yesterday announced that suspected cases of the lethal Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been reported in seven more districts. State Minister for Primary Healthcare, Dr Emmanuel...

Video Update: Panic Amidst Ebola Outbreak as Borders with Uganda Being Secured

Countries surrounding the African State of Uganda are securing their borders to prevent the spillover of the deadly and contagious virus ebola which is spreading and has claimed more than 22 lives as of this...

Panic Spreads in Africa Due to Increased Infections of the Ebola Virus

"Uganda has 101 suspected cases of Ebola fever and hundreds more people being closely monitored, officials said on Friday, as fear grew in Uganda and neighbouring countries that the deadly virus might spread."This...

The Grave Endangerment of Western Gorillas

I’m a group leader specializing in gorillas and chimpanzees at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and I’m the guy who wrote the listing that put the western gorilla...

Officials Search in DR Congo for Ebola victims

Two days ago the BBC reported an outbreak of the deadly  ebola virus in the DR Congo. It is said to have killed 166 people and infected 372 others. In an effort to stop the outbreak health officials are...

WHO warns of global epidemic risk

"WHO warns of global epidemic risk A man works at a chicken farm in Indonesia (file) Sharing data is crucial to curb viruses like bird flu, the WHO says Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before,...

Ebola Cousin Found in Fruit Bats

The Marburg virus, a close relative to the infamous Ebola virus, has been discovered in a species of fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus or more commonly known as the Egyptian Fruit Bat, according to a recent...

Save the Rabid, Infectious Bats!

Being a common mouse-eared bat has to be a tough gig.  It isn't surprising bats have maintained a terrible reputation.  Some species harbour Ebola, Henda, and Nipah viruses. Now, add to those a...

The Vancouver Water! (We're all NOT going to die!)

Prefaced strongly with "In My Opinion":  The water.... there is nothing wrong with the water.  I have been drinking it for the last week, and (twitch), there is absolutely (twitch, twitch) nothing...

Turkey fights Ebola-like fever outbreak (AP)

" LONDON - Turkey is battling the largest recorded outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, which has killed at least 20 people this year, and experts said Tuesday more cases of the Ebola " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Ebola -like disease are...

Tiny "Designer Microbes" - A Greater Terror WMD

It has been five years since the first of the Anthrax terror scares where all of us were made aware of the effectiveness of bioterrorism.Since then, a new technology has made it easier to genetically modify microbes and even create new ones from scratch. One doesn't even need...

Socializing helped Ebola wipe out gorillas -study (Reuters)

" By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent 2 hours, 29 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social contact helped the Ebola " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Ebola virus virtually wipe out a population of gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo " />...

Ebola-like virus deaths rise in Angola, travel warning issued (AFP via Yahoo!...

Another young woman died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola, officials said, as the death toll in the deadly outbreak rose to almost equal the most serious outbreak ever recorded.

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