The fight against the further spread of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is proceeding according to plan. That says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). 'It is stabilizing. We are optimistic, cautiously optimistic. '
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Eurocross emergency center are going to investigate rabies or rabies. In the Netherlands, the disease is rare, but around 60,000 people die every year from infection with the virus that is transmitted via bites from dogs, cats, bats and monkeys.
Belgian justice appears to be sending traffic fines around the last few weeks that make you happy. Or actually not.
Almost all residents of the Congolese city of Mbandaka who are most at risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus have been vaccinated against the dreaded disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this on Tuesday. In total, more than 400 people who have had contact with Ebola patients have been vaccinated.
Two Ebola patients who had left a Congolese hospital attended a prayer meeting shortly before their death. As a result, dozens of people may be exposed to the deadly disease, a health care worker said.
Brazilian Nara Almeida was 24 and shared her fight against cancer with her more than 4 million followers online. Even after she had been told that the cancer would be terminal, she remained positive: 'It's just a phase.' Now her friend has announced her death.
The vaccination program to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo starts Monday. That's what the Ministry of Health said on Sunday. There are 4000 doses of vaccine on the way to Mbandaka, where the first cases of infection in urban areas were detected last week. The dangerous virus infection struck earlier this month in a village about 70 kilometers to the south.
Two patients who were treated at the hospital in Congolese Bikoro after being infected with Ebola have been cured and are allowed to go home today. That is what Gert Verdonck, MSF team coordinator, talks to De Telegraaf.
In the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo three new cases of the infectious Ebola disease have been detected. The Ministry of Health confirms that the Ebola virus was found in the Wangata district, near the Congo River.
The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a new phase. The disease has reached Mbandaka, the capital of the Equateur province. In the urban area, Ebola can penetrate much faster than in rural areas, where the disease had been observed so far.
With the discovery of a new case of the infectious Ebola disease in the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola outbreak has entered a new phase. That is stated by the health minister of Congo, Oly Ilunga Kalenga.
Billionaire Bill Gates turns out to be a mischievous prophet. According to him, the world is on the brink of a 'pandemic'. A new deadly disease is about to break out that could cost thirty million victims.
Two cases of highly contagious Ebola have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ten people are thought to have contracted the disease, but that is not yet certain.
Nothing is worse than being awake all night because of the snoring of the person lying next to you. Sleeping next to a snorer does not only get the blood from your nails, it is also a bad thing for your health!
Physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a scientific article just before his death. That is now posthumously published in the journal Journal of High Energy Physics. The article was approved for publication shortly before his death. Hawking died on March 14 at the age of 76.
Australian researchers have found, in exceptional cases, a group of healthy Tasmanian devils. The healthy animals offer new hope that the endangered species can be saved.
Four baboons chose the hares, when they saw an opportunity to escape from a laboratory where researchers perform animal experiments. Thanks to a large blue barrel, the four smart monkeys could hoist themselves up. They went straight away and even walked for a while on public roads.
A breakthrough may have been achieved in the research against the terrible Alzheimer's disease.
The town of Youngstown in Ohio is in the grip of local raccoons who seem to have lost all fear of the people.
Julius Maada Bio is the new president of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in a few hours after the election committee announced the results. The candidate of the opposition Peoples Party SLPP defeated the incumbent president Ernest Bai Koroma in an exciting ballot box. According to the official result, Maada Bio received 51.8 percent of the votes, against 48.2 percent for Bai Koroma.
A team of scientists has, after years of thorough research, discovered the origin of an enigmatic mummified skeleton.
The origin of the enigmatic mini-mummy from Chile, which was seen by many as an alien creature, is well known. The tiny, only 15 centimeter long mummified skeleton with the strangely stretched skull and the big eye sockets is human, feminine to be precise. That is certain after five years of intensive DNA research and comparison with the genome of chimpanzee and rhesus monkey.
A 68-year-old man who poured a liter of liquor every day for more than 25 years has developed a bizarre skin disease.
The Italian producer Ferrero was not always clear about what exactly is in a Nutella pot, but that is changing now. For example, half of them appear to consist of sugar.
The Brit Stephen Hawking was a genius and a society figure, who was even more in the limelight thanks to his debilitating disease. 'But without his wheelchair he would have been just as famous.' On Wednesday, the universe scientist died at the age of 76, exactly 140 years after Albert Einstein's birthday.
'The Wednesday deceased British physicist Stephen Hawking was a very remarkable person. As a physicist he was very passionate and for everyone with a disability he was a role model. 'According to Nobel laureate and emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Utrecht Gerard 't Hooft in response to the death of Hawking.
The British physicist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. That has been announced by a spokesman for the family. Hawking died Wednesday in his home in Cambridge.
Animal activists from Gaia secretly have made video images (see below) of the living conditions of broiler chickens in six large poultry farms in Flanders. Angrily, says the organization. According to Gaia, even the minimum legal standards are not met.
After Nigeria, Liberia has also been startled by an outbreak of welding fever. Twelve people have died because of the dreaded virus infection. That's what the Liberian Health Service chief announced on the state radio Friday. So far, 28 cases of infection have been reported.
Europe is plagued by the Russian bear and storm Emma and especially in Britain one has not only suffered from the icy cold and wind, but also from the snow. And that is very awkward for the 30-year-old Rachel Warwick from Ripley. The woman is allergic to snow and has not been outside for a week.
