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Guinea declares first Ebola outbreak since 2016, after confirming 7 new cases linked to a funeral
Seven people who attended a nurse's funeral later came down with diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Evidence Of Ebola Virus Found In Asia For The First Time
Between April 2012 and March 2011, researchers tested several species of bats for antibodies to Ebo…
Jennifer Welsh
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A Caribbean Cruise Ship Can't Dock Because Of A Worker Who May Have Had Contact With The Ebola Virus
The employee, who has not yet been identified, and a traveling partner boarded the ship on Oct. 12 …
Dina Spector
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ChatGPT probably won't help create biological weapons, OpenAI says
OpenAI said its GPT-4 model provided "at most" a slight risk in its ability to help users create bi…
Tom Carter
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Marburg virus disease: Symptoms, causes, treatment, all you need to know
Marburg virus is highly infectious, with a fatality rate of up to 88%. It is a dangerous disease th…
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Ghana declares outbreak of Marburg virus, a deadly and contagious disease like Ebola, which officials are trying to contain
This is the second instance of the virus causing an outbreak in West Africa. Two people have died s…
Marianne Guenot
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Researchers at the University of Oxford start first human trials of Ebola vaccine
The trial will be conducted on 26 volunteers, aged between 18 and 55 years, to determine the saf…
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Ebola makes a comeback in the Republic of Congo — which is already fighting the coronavirus and the world's largest outbreak of measles
The Ebola virus resurgence has been reported in the Wangata health…
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3 types of viruses that can jump from animals to humans, and which ones scientists are watching to prepare for the next pandemic
Global efforts to track infectious disease often start by surveilling animal populations, since som…
Andrea Michelson
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GSK climbs 6% on report of Elliot Management's multibillion stake
Elliott enters the picture amid GSK's struggle to come back after falling behind in the COVID-19 va…
Isabelle Lee
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How Ebola went from killing 11,000 people in one year to being on the verge of a cure
The Ebola virus, once considered incurable, has plagued Africa for more than 40 years. Since 1976, …
James Pasley,James Pasley
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Americans see infectious diseases as a bigger threat than terrorism, nuclear weapons, and climate change as the coronavirus continues to spread
However, Americans with lower incomes were 9 percentage points more likely to express concerns abou…
Tyler Sonnemaker,Shayanne Gal
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Merck will reportedly help produce Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine shots after failing to make its own
The Washington Post reported that President Joe Biden would announce the partnership between the tw…
Allana Akhtar
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The woman who co-created the AstraZeneca vaccine is now represented as a Barbie doll and wants to inspire kids to pursue science
Sarah Gilbert, who led the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is one of five front line …
Stephen Jones
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I'm a doctor who's used condoms for 15 years — here are 5 reasons why I absolutely love them
Condoms help prevent sexually transmitted infections and lower your chances of an unplanned pregnan…
Nsisong Asanga, MPH, FETP
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COVID-19: No transmission via dead bodies, BMC tells Bombay HC
"The guidelines clearly stipulate that except in cases of haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola virus a…
PTI
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Antiviral drug remdesivir may be effective in stopping replication of coronavirus: ICMR
"Recently reported study on use of remdesivir for COVID-19 treatment is not a clinical trial, but …
PTI
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The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image of a black hole, a giant squid sighting, and an exoplanet with water vapor
In 2019, scientists around the world pulled off some impressive feats: They imaged a supermassive b…
Aylin Woodward
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The World Bank abandoned plans to launch a fresh set of pandemic bonds for developing countries after widespread criticism
When the coronavirus began to spread around the world in April, the bank triggered roughly $133 mil…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Scientists track link between wildlife and COVID-19 outbreak
"We created the circumstances where it was only a matter of time until something like this happens…