https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php Experts fear that a spike in coronavirus cases in West African nations will be devastating for the region. People in countries such as Sierra Leone and Liberia are still traumatized from the Ebola pandemic, which killed 11,000 people in the region over two years. The region is home to […]

President Donald Trump has treated the coronavirus pandemic like a political opportunity, which has had disastrous consequences. His approach to the 2014 Ebola outbreak offered a preview of what was to come in 2020. In 2014, Trump ignored public health experts on Ebola, while relentlessly criticising President Barack Obama via […]

Coronavirus research is falling into the same pitfalls that set back efforts to develop an Ebola drug. A frenzy of research is underway, but most early studies are small and limited. The first few months of this crisis have brought few clear findings on treatments and plenty of confusion. Many […]

The US traditionally sets a model for other countries during global crises and uses its resources to assist them, but that has not been the case during the coronavirus pandemic under President Donald Trump. Not only is the US struggling to contain its own outbreak, but close allies like the […]

In an effort to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, authorities have encouraged social distancing and the CDC has discouraged groups of people bigger than 10. This has facilitated a culture where a majority of the workforce is remote. Here are some of the other surprising ways pandemics have […]

The new coronavirus caused a surge in xenophobic attacks against anyone of Asian descent. This isn’t the first time a contagious disease has been blamed on a group of people. In fact, this phenomenon is centuries old, dating back to at least the 1300s, with the bubonic plague. “I can’t […]

As the Coronavirus continues to spread with a vaccine months away, the Trump Administration’s handling of the outbreak is falling under more scrutiny. Back in 2014, Trump railed against then-President Barack Obama over the spread of Ebola in West Africa. Amid some calls for Obama to cancel flights coming out […]

The coronavirus outbreak is demanding a huge amount of medical resources in China. That could create a gap in care for patients with other illnesses, according to Tolbert Nyenswah, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University who previously battled an Ebola epidemic in Liberia. The outbreak could take an indirect toll […]

The novel coronavirus is still spreading, and the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic. A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease, according to the WHO. It is defined by the lack of available treatment and ability to spread from person to person. There have been many […]

Facebook has confirmed it’s restricting its employees’ travel to China amid global concerns about the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The tech giant told Business Insider that it has halted all non-essential travel to China by its staff “out of an abundance of caution.” Business Insider understands that Facebook asked employees who […]

Several biotech companies have rolled out plans to develop vaccines to protect people against the Wuhan, China coronavirus, with support from global health groups and the US government. But vaccine development has historically been an arduous, multi-year process. None of the biotechs provided expected timelines to get their vaccines on […]

At least nine people have died in China from the Wuhan virus, with more than 440 infections reported in the country. The virus has spread from China to other Asian countries like South Korea and Japan, and the first documented case in the US was announced this week. The spread […]

A gas explosion hit a research centre storing pathogens like anthrax, Ebola, and smallpox in Koltsovo, Russia, on Monday. Officials immediately said there was no danger to the public after the accident. But some Russians aren’t buying the official reassurances because authorities have failed to convey the true dangers of […]

Since 1976, more than 11,000 people have been killed by the Ebola virus, and nearly 30,000 have caught it. Deadly outbreaks have occurred in Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, South Sudan, Uganda, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. It made its way to the US in 2014. Now, there’s […]

An Ebola outbreak in DRC has now killed over 1,000 people. The executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme said in a press conference on Friday that the organisation expects, “a scenario of continued intense transmission.” Containment of the virus has been hampered by armed attacks on treatment centres. […]

An American who may have been exposed to Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of Congo has returned to the United States for monitoring. The person will be monitored for up to two weeks at the Nebraska Medical Center, which has handled Ebola patients before. An infectious diseases specialist […]

There’s been a disturbing new development in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Health officials have confirmed that an infected person was found in a city of 1.2 million, meaning the disease spread beyond the town it was first spotted in. This brings the total […]