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India, US eye 5-fold increase in commerce

Eyeing to increase 2-way commerce by 5 times from the current level of $ 100 billion, India and the US have vowed to...

28 Sep 2013 9:03 AM GMT

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Experimental Ebola vaccines found safe, effective

12 Oct 2017 3:21 PM GMT

The PfSPZ vaccine is being developed to treat the deadliest Plasmodium falciparum mosquito-borne parasite. (Photo: Pixabay)

Ebola vaccines show promise against hemorrhagic fever in new study

Report in New England Journal of Medicine is first full account of a large-scale effort to test what could be first...

12 Oct 2017 2:48 AM GMT

A significant amount of work needs to be done before prenatal gene editing can be translated to the clinic (Photo: AFP)

Novel DNA vaccine against Ebola safe, effective, say scientists

Researchers designed optimised synthetic DNA vaccine candidates targeting a virus surface protein called glycoprotein.

12 Oct 2018 12:48 PM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Congo's Ebola outbreak now 2nd largest in history, says WHO

WHO emergencies chief Dr. Peter Salama late Thursday called it 'a sad toll'.

30 Nov 2018 3:31 AM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Ebola in Congo now infecting newborn babies: WHO

Six cases were reported in children aged between 2 and 17 and one case was in a pregnant woman.

23 Nov 2018 3:01 PM GMT

If superspreading had been completely under control about two-thirds of Ebola cases could have been avoided (Photo: AFP)

Bleeding eye Fever kills 4, feared to be worse than Plague

Health chiefs warn spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever could be catastrophic'.

16 Jan 2018 7:18 AM GMT

Some 28,000 people were infected with Ebola in the outbreak which began in late 2013 and continued through last year, killing more than 11,000 people mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Photo: AFP)

Human reproductive organs can get infected by ebola virus, says study

Prior studies of survivors have revealed sexual transmission of Ebola virus, and that viral RNA can persist in semen...

10 Feb 2018 5:02 AM GMT

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Antibodies that fight Ebola viruses are now a reality

Here is what a new study has found.

31 July 2018 11:01 AM GMT

New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone. (Photo: AFP)

New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone

Researchers are now working with the Sierra Leone government to determine whether any humans were infected.

27 July 2018 7:54 AM GMT

An Ebola health worker is seen at a treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. (Photo: AP)

World Health Organization plagued by travel expense abuses

The UN health agency struggles with travel abuses, while they try to raise funds their fight against Ebola, according to...

21 May 2019 11:28 AM GMT

An Ebola health worker is seen at a treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. (Photo: AP)

Second Ebola patient dies in Uganda in current outbreak

The first fatality, a five-year-old boy who had crossed into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo, died late on...

13 Jun 2019 8:58 AM GMT