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Rwanda has launched the world’s first clinical trial for the treatment of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease, which has killed more than a dozen people in the country, the World Health Organization said. The initiative, in partnership with the WHO, is testing the safety and efficacy of two treatments, one of which is currently in…
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The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned of the high burden of mpox cases, limited diagnostic capabilities, and the disease’s high fatality rate as some of the pressing challenges hindering the continent’s mpox response efforts as the number of cases surges across Africa. Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya, in an…
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Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are “indications” that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program and “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The information was released in a minority staff report by members…
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Burden of Pandemics Quantifying the morbidity and mortality burden from pandemics poses a significant challenge. Although estimates are available from historical events, the historical record is sparse and incomplete. To overcome these gaps in estimating the frequency and severity of pandemics, probabilistic modeling techniques can augment the historical record with a large catalog of hypothetical,…
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New cases of infection from a novel coronavirus that emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late December are being reported daily around the world. More than 3,000 people have died globally from COVID-19, as the illness is officially known, while more than 92,000 infections have been confirmed in dozens of countries, according to…
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South Korea’s president said he was putting the country on “red alert” due to the rapid rise in new cases, which are largely being traced back to church services. Health officials reported 169 new infections, bringing the total to 602, having doubled from Friday to Saturday. The last time South Korea raised the alert to…
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There’s yet nothing like Google. The company has shown a high level of respect and honesty to customers by revealing that its own safe browsing tool is flagging “google.com” as partially dangerous.
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