Ebola

AVI BioPharma, Inc. to Present at Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI)...

BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - News), a developer of RNA-based drugs, today announced that Patrick Iversen, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances, will present at the upcoming Transformational Medical Technologies...

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Stimulus money headed to primate facility in Southborough

The New England Primate Research Center has been awarded $5.1 million in federal stimulus money for its investigations, as well as for a contract tied to developing a vaccine for Marburg and Ebola viruses.

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Tracking pathogens difficult: federal laboratory audit

Government labs, including the one in Winnipeg handling samples of swine flu, struggle to keep track of viruses and bacteria, a recent audit found. The Public Health Agency of Canada document warns weak controls at federal...

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WHO announces end of Ebola outbreak in Uganda

A recent outbreak of Ebola fever in 's western Bundibugyo region has officially come to an end, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday. "The last person to be infected by the virus was discharged on Jan. 8,...

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Health Team Investigates ebola Panic

Conan Businge and Luke Kagiri Kampala — THE Government has sent a team to Mityana to investigate an outbreak of Ebola. The Commissioner of community health, Dr. Sam Okware, said the health ministry sent a surveillance team to...

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AVI BioPharma Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results & Corporate Highlights (Marketwire)

AVI-4658 for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Final Cohort and on Track for Interim Data Cook's Global Therapeutics Has No Further Plans to Develop AVI-5126 in Drug-Eluting Stent BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - News), a developer of...

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Masindi Ebola Survivor Honoured

Kampala — A nurse, who contracted Ebola while tending to an infected woman in 2000, has received an award for devotion to duty. Mary Kabwongera, who has been a nurse at Masindi Hospital for over 10 years, on Saturday received a...

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5 Best Pandemic Movies, Novels, and TV Series

Epidemics in Fiction — Outbreak, Andromeda Strain, Contagion, More In honor of the real-life 2009 swine flu pandemic outbreak, here are 5 of the best fictional films and novels about viral epidemics. An infected monkey sets in...

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Swine Flu? Typhus? Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever? Pneumonic Plague? Panic Explodes As A Mystery Illness...

Tonight the nation of Ukraine is in an absolute state of panic as a mystery illness rips through that country. Some reports are claiming that this mystery illness is a more virulent form of the H1N1 swine flu. Other reports are...

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Deadly Fevers More Terrifying Than Swine Flu

Brewing in the far corners of the globe in hot spots in Southeast Asia and Africa are viruses whose feared impacts are large enough to place them in the crosshairs of health experts.Many of these are emerging zoonotic viruses...

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