A flu shot … or not?

It’s just about flu season so should you get a flu vaccination or not? Find out more now to make the right choice.

Ebola fear factor subsides in U.S. financial markets

Investors should expect more calm to return to U.S. equity markets after some of the most volatile trading since 2012 as the 21-day incubation period for Ebola passes for many in Texas without new infections.

Red Cross team attacked while burying Ebola dead

This story reminds me of that wonderful saying that if you think investing in education is expensive, try ignorance. One of the biggest problems health aid workers are facing in the war against Ebola is ignorance and superstition. Already some of those trying to help have been abducted and killed. This report documents the violent … Read more

World Bank: Ebola could drain blns of dollars from African economies

By Anna Yukhananov WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The largest-ever outbreak of Ebola could drain billions of dollars from economies in West Africa by the end of next year if the epidemic is not contained, the World Bank said in an analysis on Wednesday. The global development lender predicted that slow containment of the deadly virus in … Read more

Ebola – SA bans entry to travellers from hardest-hit countries

From Reuters – Due to fears over the spread of the Ebola virus, South Africa is banning travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from entering the country, apart from its own citizens, the government has announced. The deadly Ebola disease has killed more than 1,300 people this year in the three small west African states and also has a toehold in Nigeria,Africa’s biggest economy. … Read more

Spanish missionary with Ebola lands in Madrid

An elderly Spanish missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia landed in Madrid Thursday, becoming the first patient in the fast-spreading African outbreak to be evacuated to Europe for treatment. An Airbus A310 carrying 75-year-old Roman Catholic priest Miguel Pajares landed at the Spanish capital’s Torrejon military air base at 8:15 am (0615 … Read more

Liberia football halted over Ebola fears

The Liberian football association LFA said Tuesday it has suspended all activities in the country as a measure to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. LFA had decided “to cease operations of football activities considering that football matches are contact sports and Ebola is spread through body contacts with an infected person,” LFA … Read more

Gene editing could be a path to HIV/Aids treatment

A genetic strategy to modify cells from people infected with HIV could become a way to control the virus that causes Aids without antiviral drugs. That’s according to results from an early-stage small study of the Sangamo BioSciences therapy,  issued in the New England Journal of Medicine. The findings  represent first publication of data from … Read more