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October 27, 2015

Researchers develop promising DNA vaccine for MERS

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a DNA vaccine that can protect against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). This is the first synthetic vaccine that has been shown to induce protective immunity against the virus in animals, the researchers say.

October 27, 2015

Hidden virus may make us dumber, researchers say

US researchers have come across a virus that may make us dumber鈥攁nd it's turning up in the throats of otherwise-healthy people, the Independent reports.

October 27, 2015

West Africa Ebola toll rises to more than 2,400 dead

The death toll from West Africa's Ebola outbreak has risen to more than 2,400 from at least 4,784 cases, but that is highly likely to be an underestimate, the World Health Organisation's director general Margaret Chan said on Friday.

October 27, 2015

Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone began at a funeral

An extensive look at the genome of the Ebola virus reveals its behavior, when it arrived in West Africa and how it spread in the region to cause the largest-ever recorded Ebola outbreak

October 27, 2015

CDC announces second case of MERS virus in US

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the second imported case of the deadly MERS virus in the United States, in a health care worker who travelled from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Orlando, Florida on May 1st. 聽

October 27, 2015

Nigeria confirms 2 new Ebola cases

Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and, in an alarming development, they are outside the group of caregivers who treated an airline passenger who arrived with Ebola and died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Friday.

October 27, 2015

WHO says 4 new Saudi cases of MERS virus, one fatal

Four more people in Saudi Arabia have been infected with the SARS-like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus and one of them - an elderly man - has died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

October 27, 2015

Researchers create test to detect every virus that infects people, animals

Researchers say they have created a test to detect any virus that infects people and animals, eliminating the need for doctors to perform multiple tests before confirming a diagnosis.

October 27, 2015

White House orders US labs to take inventory of infectious agents

The White House has ordered federally funded labs working with infectious agents to conduct an immediate inventory of the pathogens in their labs and review their safety and security protocols, according to a memo released on Thursday

October 27, 2015

Sierra Leone considers repeating Ebola shutdown

Sierra Leone is considering another nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of Ebola, after a largely successful one in which teams visited more than 1 million households to hand out information on the disease and check for sick people, the president said Tuesday.