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STUDY: Fear of more coronavirus-like pandemics as land rights 'under siege'

Thu, 2020-09-17 00:36 — mike kraft
Fear of more coronavirus-like pandemics as land rights 'under siege' Governments' failure to recognise the land rights of indigenous communities and their role in protecting biodiversity could lead to more coronavirus-like pandemics, researchers said on Tuesday. Nita Bhalla U.S.
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Scientists in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and US have developed a $1 test for Ebola and Lassa virus

Tue, 2020-09-15 00:02 — mike kraft
Scientists in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and US have developed a $1 test for Ebola and Lassa virus This diagnostic which has been successfully tested in Nigeria and Sierra Leone will be a game-changer in Africa if effectively deployed Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu Quartz Africa

While countries across the world are battling with the coronavirus pandemic, some African countries, are also battling the outbreaks of deadlier hemorrhagic fever viruses: Lassa virus and Ebola virus.

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The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger

Fri, 2020-09-11 13:04 — mike kraft

...As the global economy absorbs the most punishing reversal of fortunes since the Great Depression, hunger is on the rise. Those confronting potentially life-threatening levels of so-called food insecurity in the developing world are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

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Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns

Wed, 2020-09-09 21:31 — mike kraft
Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns Countries unable to withstand ecological threats among world’s least peaceful, analysis finds Jon Henley the Guardian
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New Ebola outbreak in Congo raises alarm

Sat, 2020-08-22 01:47 — mike kraft
New Ebola outbreak in Congo raises alarm A new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has infected 100 people in a western province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a rapid spread that has health officials concerned about the chances of Reid Wilson TheHill

A new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has infected 100 people in a western province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a rapid spread that has health officials concerned about the chances of an uncontrolled epidemic.

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Millions of women lose contraceptives, abortions in COVID-19

Thu, 2020-08-20 01:10 — mike kraft
Millions of women lose contraceptives, abortions in COVID-19 NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the first widespread measure of the toll... AP NEWS

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the first widespread measure of the toll says India with its abrupt, months-long lockdown has been hit especially hard.

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Flu was all but eliminated in South Africa this year. Coronavirus is to thank.

Wed, 2020-08-19 13:46 — mike kraft
Flu was all but eliminated in South Africa this year. Coronavirus is to thank. Simple protective measures have stopped flu. But the coronavirus is far more contagious. Lesley Wroughton, Max Bearak Washington Post
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Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus --Reuters

Fri, 2020-07-24 15:07 — mike kraft
Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus Reuters maps all places where COVID-19 cases have been confirmed. Gurman Bhatia Reuters

At least 633,560 people globally have died from COVID-19 and 15,597,658 have been infected by the novel coronavirus that causes it, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December. The World Health Organization referred to it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

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A Cure for Ebola? Two New Treatments Prove Highly Effective in Congo

Tue, 2019-08-13 16:04 — Maeryn Obley

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear at a Biosecure Emergency Care Unit treatment center in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo.CreditCreditBaz Ratner/Reuters

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear at a Biosecure Emergency Care Unit treatment center in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo.CreditCreditBaz Ratner/Reuters

Donald G. McNeil Jr. - NYTimes - August 12th 2019

In a development that transforms the fight against Ebola, two experimental treatments are working so well that they will now be offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists announced on Monday.

The antibody-based treatments are quite powerful — “Now we can say that 90 percent can come out of treatment cured,” one scientist said — that they raise hopes that the disastrous epidemic in eastern Congo can soon be stopped and future outbreaks more easily contained.

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New Ebola Species is Reported for First Time in a Decade

Sat, 2018-07-28 14:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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