Africa: Five Things to Remember a Decade After the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Why was this outbreak different? "Never had Ebola outbreaks happened in so many countries at the same time. The virus spread in ... had been reported to be infected, of whom 11,000 died. 03/19/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Scientists Discover Possible New Target For Ebola Prevention; Know All About The Killer Virus The virus spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or animals, including blood, saliva, vomit, urine, faeces, and semen. Fever: Patients may experience a ... 03/18/2024 - 8:54 pm | View Link
A decade later, Liberians remember those who died in Ebola outbreak It was a grim milestone for those who lost loved ones to the virus, even though cultural stigma leads many to insist they died of other causes. The Ebola outbreak killed some 11,000 people mainly ... 03/15/2024 - 6:16 am | View Link
The making of...Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola Nobody knew it yet, but the world’s worst Ebola outbreak had just ... many people think – the virus spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected, symptomatic person ... 02/10/2023 - 5:01 pm | View Link
Ebola virus Their schools in the capital Kampala have not been closed - yet the virus is highly contagious. There have been 19 deaths and 58 cases reported in Uganda during this outbreak. Nineteen people have ... 11/9/2022 - 11:00 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.