Sentences with phrase «african outbreaks of the virus»

The West African Ebola epidemic dwarfed all previous central African outbreaks of the virus, sickening more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000 of them.

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Explaining that the virus had the Central African and the West African types, the commissioner said the West African type was milder and had no records of mortality, saying «recently in Bayelsa State, we noticed a suspected outbreak of Monkey Pox.

He described Monkey Pox as a viral illness caused by a group of viruses that include chicken pox and small pox, noting that the first case was noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and subsequently it had outbreaks in the West African region.

Many species of bats may spread the deadly virus, which has infected 20,171 people and killed 7,890 in the ongoing West African outbreak.

Speakers included Dimitri Prybylski of the U.S. - based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Namibia office, who was involved in coordinating the international response to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa; Markus Theobald of the EU Delegation to Namibia in Windhoek; and Pierguido Sarti, Italian science attaché to South Africa, Namibia, and other southern African countries.

«It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»

Affected West African countries have repeatedly stopped transmission of the virus, only for fresh outbreaks to appear, seemingly out of nowhere.

An earlier study, conducted in Guinea near the end of the devastating West African Ebola outbreak, showed the vaccine from Merck, which is given in a single shot, rapidly generated protection against the virus.

Though the West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2013 is now under control, 23 countries remain environmentally suitable for animal - to - human transmission of the Ebola virus.

Thursday 14 January could see the WHO declare Liberia free from Ebola virus transmission — marking the first time all of the three worst - affected West African countries are free from infection since the outbreak began.

An international effort to analyze the entire database of Ebola virus genomes from the 2013 — 2016 West African epidemic reveals insights into factors that sped or slowed the rampage and calls for using real - time sequencing and data - sharing to contain future viral disease outbreaks.