Tag: Virus
GCC Residents More Likely To See Coronavirus As Major Threat Compared...
YouGov’s international study conducted in 23 countries and regions captures the sentiments of people and the differing attitude to the disease
The Coronavirus has become...
MERS Returns with 23 New Cases
Although Ebola is clearly dominating international news with horrifying statistics being released every day, Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry reminded about the threat of the...
Hunger, Cancer, Ebola, AIDS… Obesity Tops Them All
The Ebola virus is dominating all global news right now, with some countries starting to consider imposing travel bans and closing their borders. And...
Ebola Prevention: What You Need to Know
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is getting out of control, according to health experts, with a recent rapid increase in the reported cases....
First Ebola Transmission outside Africa
A nurse in Spain, who had treated the elderly priest Manuel Garcia Viejo from Ebola in a Madrid hospital, is now also infected. This...
Ebola Could Reach Europe by October End
The worst Ebola outbreak in history, which is now spreading rapidly across West Africa, could reach Europe by the end of October, according to...
First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the US
Health authorities in the United States announced they have diagnosed the first Ebola case in the country, which is also the first one to...
Ebola Cases May Reach 1.4 Million by February
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is gaining speed with hundreds of new infections each week, but recently the American CDC defined the worst-case...
Sharp Rise in Ebola Cases; Worst Is Yet to Come
In Monrovia, the capital of the West African nation of Liberia, the country hit hardest by the current Ebola epidemic, hospitals aren’t admitting patients....
Ebola Outbreak Hits 5th Country
The Ebola outbreak which has infected more than 3,000 people in West Africa, now hits a fifth country in the region. After a Guinean...
47% of Ebola Patients Survive
The current Ebola epidemic which has killed nearly 1,500 people out of over 2,600 known cases was called “the worst in history” and declared...
Fears of Deadly Outbreaks Increase in Saudi Arabia
Two patients with possible Ebola symptoms are said to have escaped from a health center in the Madinah province of Saudi Arabia, according to...
Ebola Outbreak: WHO Declares International Emergency
The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency over the 2014 West Ebola outbreak, which killed nearly a thousand people in...
Ebola Outbreak Causes Global Concerns
The death toll of the West African Ebola outbreak reached 932 and with the death of a Saudi man suspected of carrying the disease,...
Countries on Alert over Ebola Outbreak
The current Ebola epidemic, which started in March in Guinea and is now sweeping across West Africa, is the largest and the deadliest in...
Respiratory Viruses Threaten to Cause Global Outbreaks
Viral pandemics occur with surprising regularity throughout world history and today we are battling with not one, but two respiratory viruses which threaten to...
Novel Coronavirus can transmit from person-to-person
WHO Press Statement Related to the Novel Coronavirus Situation
The emergence of this new coronavirus is globally recognized as an important and major challenge for...
How Dangerous is the New Coronavirus?
New reports from the past months by the World Health Organization have linked a new deadly virus with countries in the Middle East. The...