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Ebola drug trials to be fast-tracked in West Africa
2014-09-23 18:10:00| Biotech - Topix.net
Experimental Ebola drugs including compounds from Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta and Tekmira will be tested in affected West African states for the first time in a bid to fast-track trials, the Wellcome Trust said on Tuesday. Announcing a 3.2 million pound grant for the work, the global health charity said the money would "enable multiple partners around the world to quickly establish clinical trials at existing Ebola treatment centers".
Kerry: Climate change as urgent as ISIS, Ebola
2014-09-23 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Secretary of State John Kerry said the threats posed by climate change should be addressed with as much "immediacy" as confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the Ebola outbreak. During a meeting with foreign ministers on Sunday, Kerry said global warming is creating "climate refugees." "We see people fighting over water in some places. There are huge challenges to food security and challenges to the ecosystem, our fisheries and ... the acidification of the ocean is a challenge...
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Airlines Should 'Treat All Body Fluids as Though They Are Infectious': CDC Ebola Advisory
2014-09-22 08:28:20| Biotech - Topix.net
To combat the spread of the Ebola virus , airlines should treat all body fluids as though they are infectious, according to an update from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A U.S. Department of Transportation rule permits airlines to deny boarding to air travelers with serious contagious diseases that could spread during flight, including travelers with possible Ebola symptoms.
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Kerry compares climate change to fight against Ebola and Isis as thousands march around world
2014-09-21 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 300,000 marchers flooded the streets of New York on Sunday in the largest climate change march in history, vaulting the environmental threat to the top of the global agenda. On a day of 2,700 simultaneous climate events from Melbourne to Manhattan, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, reinforced the calls from the streets for action by calling on world leaders to take the threat of climate change as seriously as Isis or Ebola. Organisers had called the day of protests in order to...
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World leaders to gather at UN in shadow of Islamic State, Ebola crises
2014-09-21 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. There is little hope the 193-nation UN general assembly will achieve much in the annual five-day marathon of speeches. But on the sidelines, US officials plan to lobby allies for pledges of concrete military assistance to help defeat Islamic State,...
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