Showing posts with label vaccines against Ebola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vaccines against Ebola. Show all posts

corporation from Fidel castro against ebola





 Cuban leader Fidel Castro's offer cooperation with the United States in the fight against the Ebola virus, in an article published Saturday in the Granma newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party. In Germany, the German government is working on a private jet supplied with the necessary equipment, configured to transport patients to hospitals for treatment of Ebola German.

Castro said -albalg the age of 88-year-old cooperation in the fight against Ebola would be in the name of world peace. Cuba sent 165 doctors and workers in the field of health care to Sierra Leone, and three hundred others will leave soon to Liberia and Guinea.

It is expected to hold a regional summit in Havana tomorrow, next Monday, to discuss further cooperation in the fight against the spread of the Ebola virus, has been called to be held, "the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our continent American Trade Treaty."

The meeting aims to coordinate regional cooperation in the fight against the Ebola virus, according the newspaper quoted the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

Plane for Ebola
In Germany, the government is working now on a private jet supplied with the necessary equipment and configured to transfer patients to hospitals for treatment of Ebola German, according to the newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sontagestsaitong" issued on Sunday.

The newspaper quoted German government circles that Lufthansa Airlines has received commissioned processing of this plane, adding that there is a plan to equip several aircraft to transport patients safely to Germany.

It is scheduled to be this aircraft ready to work with the middle of next month, which is the same date that the volunteers will travel to the German-stricken country of the disease in order to help in the treatment of patients.

In regard to the offline, student and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the international community to exert a stronger role in the face of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, in remarks to the German newspaper itself.

The minister said, "We all underestimated the seriousness of Ebola, and today we know that we are in every day that passes without taking action appropriate, increase the risk of losing the war against him." He also urged the European Union to play a more visible to help the residents of the affected countries and send a signal to them that they will not leave them alone.
Weibull virus kills more than half of the victims (European)

Increased allocations
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron of the European Union also increase the financial allocations to combat Ebola to one billion euros (one billion and 280 million dollars).

In a letter to Herman Van Rompuy, president of the Council of the European Union and the leaders of the bloc's member states, Cameron wrote that he must do more, stressing the need to support the adoption of an ambitious package during the EU summit to be held a few days after.

The European Union and its members have so far provided 450 million euros (574 million dollars) to help countries in West Africa affected by Ebola, the Commission assumed that the amount of 180 million euros (230 million dollars). The value is provided by the British government so far to combat the disease 157 million euros (200 million dollars).

Symptoms of Ebola

 

 

 

Symptoms of Ebola include

  • Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
  • Severe headache
  • Muscle pain
  • Weakness
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal (stomach) pain
  • Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.
Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and the patient’s immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years.

Facebook founder donates to combat Ebola




Detection Marc Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive, on Tuesday, he and his wife Priscilla Chan will present a contribution of $ 25 million in their efforts to combat the epidemic of Ebola.

Zuckerberg said on Facebook: "We need to control Ebola at the earliest so as not to spread more and constitutes a global health crisis of long-term force us to fight against dozens of years on a large scale, such as AIDS and polio."

Said Bruce Aillward Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on Tuesday that the death toll from the epidemic, which appeared for the first time the state of Guinea during March amounted to 4447 people from a total of 8914 cases.

Russia will provide the three vaccines against Ebola within six months





Minister of Health announced that the Russian Veronica Skovrtsova Russian scientists will be able within six months from the provision of three vaccines against Ebola virus, which can accommodate spread after causing the death of more than four thousand people in West Africa in particular.
The state news agency RIA Novosti as saying the minister during a television interview, "We have developed three vaccines .. and we believe it will be ready within the next six months."