Ebola

This Inhaled Vaccine Could Be the Key to Stopping Ebola

Ebola is a particularly scary disease not only because of the way in which it kills you, but because there’s no cure, and no real vaccine. That’s obviously something scientists are working to change — and one vaccine that’s just finished trials with monkeys shows serious promise. According to a paper published in the Journal…

Tech News Chris Mills Jul 13

Report Finds WHO Unfit To Confront Public Health Emergencies Like Ebola

In the wake of West Africa’s Ebola crisis, an independent panel assembled at the request of World Health Organization director Margaret Chan has judged the WHO unfit “to deliver a full emergency public health response,” finding that it has neither “the capacity [nor] organizational culture” to do so. The Ebola Interim Assessment Panel, led by…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 7

Ebola Has Resurfaced In Liberia With Three New Cases

On May 9th, Liberia was formally cleared of the Ebola Virus Disease after its last patient recovered on March 20th: the end of the outbreak in the country was a major milestone in the greater outbreak that has crippled West Africa. Earlier this week, a 17 year old teenager died of the disease, and nobody…

io9 Andrew Liptak Jul 3

Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone Mutated at a Normal Rate

Since the Ebola outbreak occurred in West Africa in 2014, researchers have feared that the virus had been able to evolve at a more rapid rate than usual. Now, an analysis of the virus reveals that it mutated at a perfectly normal rate in Sierra Leone, alleviating those fears. A team of Chinese researchers, that…

Health Jamie Condliffe May 14

How Viruses Hide Inside Your Eyeballs, Even When You’re No Longer Sick

Last week brought the horrifying news that the Ebola virus can live in the eyeballs of survivors, even after it’s been eliminated from the rest of the body. It shouldn’t have been a surprise, though. Viruses have always hidden in parts of our bodies you’d never expect. In fact, we’re all walking virus reservoirs. It’s…

Tech News Sarah Zhang May 13

Ebola Turned This Man’s Eye From Blue To Green

Last October, Dr. Ian Crozier was released from Emory University Hospital after nearly losing his life to Ebola. Months later, he began to experience pain and fading vision in his left eye. Within a few days, his iris, which is normally blue, had turned green. At The New York Times, Denise Grady has the details…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 7

The Ebola Virus Can Live Inside Your Eyes

After working as a doctor in an Ebola-stricken nation, Ian Crozier felt like he had something in his left eye. He was right: a live, replicating reservoir of the Ebola virus. According to a story in the New York Times, Crozier had contracted Ebola while working with the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone in…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland May 7

The Race to Build a Better Suit For Ebola Aid Workers

It’s been more than a year since the deadliest ebola outbreak ever hit with full force in West Africa. And while the virus has retreated, the reckoning over the best approach to treat the inevitable next outbreak is only gaining speed. Lead image: AP Photo/Brynn Anderson. The debates ranges from the delivery of US-made military…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 22

Road to Zero: Sierra Leone’s Struggle to Rid Itself of Ebola

The worst of the Ebola epidemic may be over but the World Health Organization has declared that life in Sierra Leone, as in other Ebola-affected West African countries, can only return to normal when transmission of the virus ceases and cases drop to zero. Unfortunately, not everyone in Sierra Leone is so concerned. Mark Honigsbaum…

Tech News Mark Honigsbaum - Mosaic Apr 21

Ebola Survivors Are Being Urged To Abstain From Sex

Until scientists learn more about the virus and how long it stays in the body, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking Ebola survivors to either abstain from sex or use condoms 100% of the time. The CDC revised its guidelines on Ebola transmission on Sunday night. Prior to yesterday’s revision, the…

io9 George Dvorsky Apr 20

DARPA Wants To Solve Ebola With DNA, Money, And Institutional Knowhow

Colonel Dan Wattendorf is a program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office. His goal: To dramatically suppress Ebola, and infectious diseases like it, with a new, unconventional vaccine. And according to Wattendorf, the biggest hurdles he faces in accomplishing this mission “aren’t scientific, but institutional.” Above: Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion | Credit:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 19

Measles Could Cause More Deaths Than Ebola In West Africa

West Africa’s Ebola outbreak could be stanched by mid-year – but in the epidemic’s wake, another public health crisis looms. Disruption of the region’s already feeble health care systems has derailed health campaigns targeting childhood diseases, leaving the door wide open for measles and other preventable illnesses. Above: A mother brings her sick child for…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 12

The Ebola Outbreak Has Had Devastating Consequences For Maternal Health

In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the Ebola outbreak is having a horrifying impact on pregnant women, regardless of whether they have Ebola. Above: The Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola treatment centre in Freetown, Sierra Leon, where, in January, medical aid workers opened a clinic specializing in care for pregnant women with Ebola | Photo Credit:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 4

How Will the Ebola Epidemic End?

Upon his return from 6 weeks volunteering with the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership at a number of Ebola isolation facilities in Freetown, Tom Boyles considers the endgame of the Ebola epidemic. There are encouraging signs of an overall reduction in confirmed cases of Ebola in west Africa. The graphs below show the epidemic curves for…

Tech News Dr Tom Boyles - PLoS Blogs Jan 29

Chimps and gorillas need an Ebola vaccine too

There is a side to the Ebola crisis that, perhaps understandably, has received little media attention: the threat it poses to our nearest cousins, the great apes of Africa. At this moment in time Ebola is the single greatest threat to the survival of gorillas and chimpanzees. https://theconversation.com/chimps-and-gorillas-desperately-need-ebola-vaccine-too-virus-has-wiped-out-a-third-of-them-35503 The virus is even more deadly for…

Tech News Meera Inglis for The Conversation Jan 24

Could We Halt the Ebola Epidemic This Year?

The Ebola epidemic continues to rage in west Africa, despite the fact that news coverage has all but dried up. Here, Beth Skwarecki speaks to researchers from the University of Georgia to find out if we could stop the epidemic within the year. Although the Ebola epidemic is still raging in west Africa, US and…

Tech News Beth Skwarecki - PLoS Blogs Jan 15

A Vastly Improved Protective Suit For Healthcare Workers In Ebola Zones

As the ongoing Ebola epidemic rages in West Africa, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the protective suits worn by healthcare workers are extremely inadequate. To address this, researchers as Johns Hopkins have designed a new suit that should dramatically reduce infection risk. The prototype is specially designed to keep healthcare workers from coming into contact…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 18

This Hazmat Suit Peels Off Like a Big, Yellow, Ebola-Covered Glove

Hazmat suits are great for keeping you safe from pesky things like ebola, but there’s one difficult part that you just can’t avoid: You have to take that suit off at some point. Infecting yourself (or others) with the very suit that’s been protecting you is a real danger, which is why Johns Hopkins developed…

Tech News Eric Limer Dec 17

How ebola attacks the cells in the human body explained step by step

Good animation by Kurzgesagt explaining how the ebola virus attacks the human body step by step. It turns out that, at the end, it is the immunological system—hacked and threatened by the virus—that eventually kills the host. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Nov 6

The original eBay.com hosted a page about Ebola

According to a newly-published New York Magazine profile, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar sounds like a pretty weird dude. The lengthy piece not only documents the billionaire’s latest shenanigans, but also the origins of the world’s largest auction site. Funnily enough, Ebola plays a strange role in that story. “Originally, the domain eBay.com had nothing to…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 4

This Inhaled Vaccine Could Be the Key to Stopping Ebola

Report Finds WHO Unfit To Confront Public Health Emergencies Like Ebola

Ebola Has Resurfaced In Liberia With Three New Cases

Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone Mutated at a Normal Rate

How Viruses Hide Inside Your Eyeballs, Even When You’re No Longer Sick

Ebola Turned This Man’s Eye From Blue To Green

The Ebola Virus Can Live Inside Your Eyes

The Race to Build a Better Suit For Ebola Aid Workers

Road to Zero: Sierra Leone’s Struggle to Rid Itself of Ebola

Ebola Survivors Are Being Urged To Abstain From Sex

DARPA Wants To Solve Ebola With DNA, Money, And Institutional Knowhow

Measles Could Cause More Deaths Than Ebola In West Africa

The Ebola Outbreak Has Had Devastating Consequences For Maternal Health

How Will the Ebola Epidemic End?

Chimps and gorillas need an Ebola vaccine too

Could We Halt the Ebola Epidemic This Year?

A Vastly Improved Protective Suit For Healthcare Workers In Ebola Zones

This Hazmat Suit Peels Off Like a Big, Yellow, Ebola-Covered Glove

How ebola attacks the cells in the human body explained step by step

The original eBay.com hosted a page about Ebola

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