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October 28, 2015

Ebola’s orphans: Survivors care for children left behind by disease

Ebola fears are calming in the United States, but in embattled West African countries like Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the disease still conjures up fear and isolation – even when it comes to its smallest survivors. While recent reports indicate new infections are slowing, the number of children orphaned by Ebola continues to rise with the death toll.

October 28, 2015

Vaccine phobia and the autism ‘epidemic’

The current controversy over whether parents should be forced to have their children vaccinated for measles is one of the painful signs of our times. 

October 27, 2015

US orders diplomats' families to leave Liberia as Ebola spreads

The United States on Thursday ordered families of its diplomats in Liberia to leave and warned against non-essential travel to the West African country because of the growing Ebola outbreak

October 27, 2015

Saudi Arabia tests man suspected of contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone

Saudi Arabia is testing a man for suspected Ebola infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday

October 27, 2015

FDA warns of fraudulent Ebola drug claims

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola.

October 27, 2015

Tailor-made vaccine set to banish Africa's meningitis epidemics

The website of a global partnership formed to wipe out deadly meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa is closing down with a simple message: "Thank you and goodbye!"

October 27, 2015

World Health Organization recommends: Lay off the camel pee

The MERS outbreak that's spread into South Korea has killed at least 10, sickened more than 120, and forced about 2,600 schools to shut down there, the AP reports.

October 27, 2015

Obama administration setting up group on experimental Ebola drugs

The Obama administration is forming a special Ebola working group to consider setting policy for the potential use of experimental drugs to help the hundreds infected by the deadly disease in West Africa, U.S. officials said on Thursday

October 27, 2015

Nigerian health minister says nurse died of Ebola

Nigeria's health minister says a nurse died of Ebola and the country has five additional confirmed cases of the disease

October 27, 2015

WHO team urges South Korea to reopen schools as more close in MERS crisis

A joint South Korean-World Health Organization mission studying an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) recommended on Wednesday that schools be reopened, as they were unlikely to spread the disease, just as school boards recommended more be shut.