Emerging viral diseases: Ebola hemmorrhagic fever

Emerging zoonotic viral diseases.

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that are naturally transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans and vice versa. They are caused by all types of pathogenic agents, including bacteria, parasites, fungi, viruses and prions. Although they have been recognised for many centuries, their impact on public health has increased in the last few decades due to a combination of the success in red...

Emerging viral diseases.

Antiviral therapies against Ebola and other emerging viral diseases using existing medicines that block virus entry

Emerging viral diseases pose a threat to the global population as intervention strategies are mainly limited to basic containment due to the lack of efficacious and approved vaccines and antiviral drugs. The former was the only available intervention when the current unprecedented Ebolavirus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa began. Prior to this, the development of EBOV vaccines and anti-viral the...

The importance of vaccination in the control of the emerging viral diseases outbreaks

During the past decade several new viruses have emerged  making a  global health threat. The most pandemic threats are due to the  either zoonotic or  vector-borne viruses. The emerging of new infectious diseases continue to  be threaten of public health and the social activities including traveling or trade help to sustain and spread of the viruses.  Developing methods to manage and predict th...

Epidemic of Ebola Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Hits Bundibugyo District

It is amazing how time flies; 2007 which ends in 2 weeks has been a very eventful and busy year for the cluster. The year witnessed many major epidemic outbreaks and natural disasters which include the meningitis outbreak in west Nile region, cholera in Kitgum district (spill over from 2006), Marburg in Kamwenge, floods in Teso, Karamoja and northern Uganda, Hepatitis E in Kitgum and recently E...