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UN links climate change to Zika, Ebola
2016-02-19 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The United Nations is urging action on climate change as a way to prevent the spread of diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus. In a speech this week, the executive director of the UNs Environment Programme (UNEP) said officials should take a more aggressive stance toward climate change, highlighting studies that show nearly a quarter of premature deaths around the world can be attributed to environmental problems. The spread of Zika, just as with Ebola, has sent a strong signal to the international...
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Global Vaccine promises $5 million to develop Ebola vaccine
2016-01-20 12:57:46| Biotech - Topix.net
The global vaccine alliance GAVI says it will donate $5 million toward developing the leading Ebola vaccine, hoping that it will be approved by a regulator by the end of 2017. If the vaccine is given the green light, GAVI says it will then create a stockpile to help stamp out future outbreaks of the lethal disease.
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World Health Organization to Review Mercks Investigational Ebola Vaccine for Emergency Use Assessment and Listing
2015-12-23 14:30:00| Merck.com - Corporate News
Dateline City: KENILWORTH, N.J. KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the application for Emergency Use Assessment and Listing (EUAL) for the companys investigational Ebola Zaire vaccine, V920 (rVSVG-ZEBOV-GP, live attenuated), has been accepted for review by the World Health Organization (WHO). Language: English Contact: MerckMedia:Pamela Eisele, 267-305-3558Skip Irvine, 215-652-6059orInvestors:Teri Loxam, 908-740-1986Justin Holko, 908-423-5088 Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE read more
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New symptoms surface in Ebola patients months after initial recovery
2015-12-17 09:44:27| Biotech - Topix.net
Survivors of infection by Ebola virus, already known to face vision, hearing and other problems during their recovery, may also be plagued with health issues such as depression, anxiety and nerve damage that surface after they leave the hospital, according to a small spot survey of victims whose care was managed in the U.S. Some of the signs and symptoms can persist for months, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta found. The data, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, offer a snapshot of what eight patients, most of whom had been discharged at least four months earlier, had experienced - and were continuing to experience - during their recovery.
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Deforestation 'might have started west Africa's Ebola outbreak'
2015-10-29 17:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Deforestation may have triggered the recent Ebola outbreak in west Africa, Frances environment minister Ségolène Royal told a London summit hosted by the Prince of Wales ahead of next months Cop21 conference. Addressing the British energy and climate change secretary, Amber Rudd, representatives from forest nation governments and global companies, Royal said researchers believe the destruction of forest habitat brought bats, known to carry the virus, into greater contact with humans....
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