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Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Bushmeat, CHINA, COVID-19, Disease X, Ebola, RCCE, WHONo CommentsViews:
Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more

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University of Sydney Virologist Wins Big With Pioneering Covid-19 Research

Posted By: adminon: November 04, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Ebola, Hepatitis C, HIV, Mark Scott, Prime Minister Morrison, SARS, STEM Teaching, University of SydneyNo CommentsViews:
University of Sydney Virologist Wins Big With Pioneering Covid-19 Research

Originally titled “Major award for Australian Covid pioneer”, this November 3rd, 2021 story has been lifted from Times Higher Education where the rider goes as follows: Fifty-two minutes tha... Read more

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Ebola Tricks the World, More Dangerous Than Initial Appearance?

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Ebola, Equatorial Africa, MSF, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:
Ebola Tricks the World, More Dangerous Than Initial Appearance?

It is emerging that Ebola virus might have capacity to hibernate and return for a second round of infection. According to the New York Times, Scientists seem to conclude that someone who was... Read more

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Is An African Contingency Plan on COVID-19 Coming?

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Bill Gates, Ebola, M O Ibrahim, Pharmacognosy, WHONo CommentsViews:
Is An African Contingency Plan on COVID-19 Coming?

It is now trite to say the world is under siege. But the siege cannot last forever. A multiplicity of efforts are going in too many places and levels that the world will prevail. How soon th... Read more

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Is Chloroquine a Done Deal Or Politics of Global Primacy?

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Anthony Fauci, CHINA, Chloroquine, Ebola, NIGERIA, North Africa, Southern AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Is Chloroquine a Done Deal Or Politics of Global Primacy?

Bringing Coronavirus under control is as medical as it is global power politics. That makes it interesting that it is Donald Trump who has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pan... Read more

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United States Trigger Global Health Alarm Over Closure of Key Health Intelligence Facility

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2019In: FlashbackTags: AIDS, Dennis Carrol, Ebola, NYT, Predict, SARS, USAIDNo CommentsViews:
United States Trigger Global Health Alarm Over Closure of Key Health Intelligence Facility

Global health governance practitioners are imagining alarms ringing in that arena following the decision of the United States Government to close down a global health surveillance facility.... Read more

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Don’t Panic Over Ebola, Nigerian Govt Reinforces Alert to Citizens

Posted By: adminon: May 16, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: CSM, DRC, Ebola, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, Prof Isaac AdewoleNo CommentsViews:
Don’t Panic Over Ebola, Nigerian Govt Reinforces Alert to Citizens

Fearful of the public being overwhelmed by panic, the government says the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control is not only on ground but fully equipped to battle Ebola in tandem with the slog... Read more

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Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s Absence?

Posted By: adminon: May 15, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Ebola, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, Northern Elders, Sheikh Ahmad GumiNo CommentsViews:
Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s Absence?

President Muhammadu Buhari’s ill-health and the way forward is still a subject of subsisting and emergent controversies in spite of what appears a steady preparation of the minds of the peop... Read more

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3 Lessons from Current CSM Outbreak in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 05, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Bill Gates, Celebro-spinal Meningitis-CSM, Dr Ameyo Adadevoh, Ebola, Global Health Intelligence, MSF, SARSNo CommentsViews:
3 Lessons from Current CSM Outbreak in Nigeria

It must be a summoning to reflexivity that in the first week of April 2017, an outbreak of cerebro-spinal meningitis, (CSM) has claimed no less than 400 victims in Nigeria even though the fi... Read more

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Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AIDS/HIV, CHINA, Dr David Nabarro, Dr Flavia Bustreo, Dr Miklós Szócska, Dr Sania Nishtar, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ebola, Esperanza Martinez, Ethiopia, France, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Hungary, ICRC, IPS, Italy, Lyndal Rowlands, Margaret Chan, Norway, Pakistan, Professor Philippe Douste-Blazy, Sierra Leone, Susannah Sirkin, Syria, tuberculosis, UN, WHO, ZikaNo CommentsViews:
Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Written and published originally by Inter Press Service News Agency, (IPS) under the title “Who Should Lead the WHO Next?”, the author pries into the question of successor of Dr Margaret Cha... Read more

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