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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Ebola

Illustrative: An Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, in Congo, on July 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
September 30, 2022, 6:15 pm
Health Ministry warns against travel to Ugandan regions amid Ebola outbreak
Israelis advised to avoid traveling to Uganda’s Mubende and nearby districts, where the outbreak, first reported on September 20, has led to six confirmed deaths so far
By ToI Staff
A child is vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, DRC, July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)
September 17, 2021, 11:05 am
‘Ebola is defeated,’ says Congolese professor who discovered virus
More effective treatments and availability of vaccines mean the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever that once proved almost always fatal can now be contained
By AFP
In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo American political operative Ron Klain arrives at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's home in Washington (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
December 2, 2020, 6:06 pm
With power-player consigliere Klain, Biden puts White House reins in an old hand
Incoming chief of staff is experienced master of policy with a reputation among Democrats and, strikingly, even some Republicans for competence, combined with authority on pandemic
By ASHRAF KHALIL and Laurie Kellman
ILLUSTRATIVE -- A health worker wearing full protective gear takes an X-ray of a patient in a ward reserved for COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Juarez, in Mexico City, June 26, 2020 (AP Photo / Eduardo Verdugo)
July 7, 2020, 6:30 am
Regeneron COVID-19 drug treatment enters final stage trials
REGN-COV2 is a combination of two antibodies that block the coronavirus’ ‘spike protein,’ which it uses to invade human cells
By AFP
Johnny, the bus driver from East Jerusalem who recovered from the coronavirus, is released from hospital, photo undated. (Maya Tzaben/Baruch Padeh Medical Center)
March 30, 2020, 8:37 pm
Bus driver who was Israel’s first serious virus patient makes full recovery
Johnny, from East Jerusalem, drove a group of Greek tourists later found to be carrying coronavirus; was treated with Remdesivir, which was originally developed for Ebola
By ToI Staff
A municipality worker wearing a face mask and protective suits disinfects chairs outside the the historical Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as Blue Mosque, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Istanbul, March 21, 2020 (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
March 21, 2020, 2:51 pm
World underestimated pandemic, says former World Bank VP who saw it coming
Professor Ian Goldin argues pandemics have always threatened humanity more than wars, but governments overfund armies and don’t give enough to health systems
By Veronique DUPONT
Illustrative: Health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
October 28, 2019, 3:36 pm
Workings of Ebola vaccine decoded; smaller dose seen yielding similar protection
Existing medicines are unwieldy and poorly understood, but breakthrough by Israeli and German scientists could help protect more people for the long-term
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: A rat ( anatolypareev/iStock)
March 23, 2018, 9:01 pm
Jordanian TV host claims Israel sent Bubonic plague-infected rats to Egypt
Bakr Al-Abadi also says Jewish state created Ebola, poisons Egyptian crops in effort to ‘annihilate the Arab world’
By ToI Staff
Sydney Kamen with a village leader in rural Burma in an unofficial refugee camp that is one of SOAP’s partner communities. (Courtesy of Kamen/via JTA)
August 12, 2017, 11:53 pm
Armed with soap, Jewish teen targets disease and poverty in the Third World
Sydney Kamen saw 1.8 million dying annually due to poor hygiene. Now, her nonprofit trains women and children to recycle, resell, and teach others about proper soap use
By Abigail Pickus
This file photo taken on November 15, 2014 shows a health worker wearing protective equipment giving a drink to a young Ebola patient at Kenama treatment center run by the Red Cross in Sierra Leone. (Francisco Leong/AFP)
May 12, 2017, 10:31 pm
Ebola outbreak reported in remote part of DR Congo
Three people dead so far; health minister urges population ‘not to panic’; outbreak is first in three years
By AFP
Live fluorescent imaging of hepatitis C viruses (red) seemingly avoiding liver cells that accumulate fat (green) in spite of the virus's well known contribution to fatty liver disease (Courtesy of Prof. Yaakov Nahmias)
October 10, 2016, 6:03 pm
Hebrew U.-led team finds new metabolic way to resist viruses
International team of scientists identify possible Achilles heel of infection-causing Hepatitis C
By Shoshanna Solomon
In this April 7, 2015 file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. holds up his cell phone as he speaks before announcing the start of his presidential campaign, in Louisville, Ky. (AP/Carolyn Kaster, File)
February 3, 2016, 5:26 pm
Rand Paul quits 2016 GOP presidential race
Republican senator now set to focus on his re-election campaign in Kentucky
By Laurie Kellman and MEG KINNARD
Health ministry personnel fumigate against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the Zika virus, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on February 1, 2016. (AFP Photo/Orlando Sierra)
February 2, 2016, 1:18 am
WHO declares international health emergency over Zika
Mosquito-borne virus may be linked to surge in birth defects in Latin America, top world health body warns
By Nina Larson
This file photo taken on August 15, 2014 shows a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical worker wearing protective clothing while speaking to a colleague at an MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. (Carl de Souza/AFP)
January 17, 2016, 4:31 am
Sierra Leone quarantines 109 after new Ebola death
World Health Organization confirms woman, 22, died of the tropical fever, whose latest outbreak killed 11,000
By AFP
A Japanese tourist attends a New Year's party on December 31, 2015 at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (AFP / dpa / Wolfram Kastl)
December 31, 2015, 10:38 pm
In shadow of global terror threat, world ushers in New Year
More than 100,000 police deployed throughout France; fireworks displays canceled in Brussels, Paris
By Barry Parker
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