First Zika vaccine to be tested in humans (CNN) — The first human trial of a Zika vaccine will begin soon, Inovio Pharmaceuticals said Monday. Inovio, which is based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and GeneOne Life Science, which is based in Seoul, South Korea, worked together on the vaccine. They previously collaborated to create vaccines for Ebola and MERS, both of which are […]
Fake police alert about Ebola-tainted meth leads … A Texas police department posted a fake news alert on Facebook warning of drugs contaminated with Ebola, and, incredibly, one woman actually showed up for the “screening” and was promptly arrested.
North Korea’s latest boast: Alcohol without the hangover It put the world on edge after its supposed hydrogen bomb test. But perhaps we can learn to love North Korea now that it claims to have invented a revolutionary liquor that won’t leave you bleary-eyed and hungover.
Jesuit high school gets a germ-zapping robot NEW ORLEANS(WGNO)– Jesuit High School of New Orleans is the first and only prep school in the United States to deploy a high-tech Germ-Zapping Robot™ to wage environmental war by destroying bacteria and potentially deadly pathogens typically found lurking inside gymnasiums, athletic locker rooms, weight training areas, shower and bathroom facilities, and even personal sports […]
‘Identity’ is the Dictionary.com 2015 word of the … Who do you think you are? It’s been an important question in 2015. From Caitlyn Jenner to Rachel Dolezal, the idea of self-identification played a prominent role in some of the biggest news stories of the year.
Fentanyl: The new heroin, but deadlier America’s addiction to opioid-based painkillers and heroin just got exponentially more dangerous. The most potent painkiller on the market, prescribed by doctors for cancer treatment, is being made illicitly and sold on the streets, delivering a super high and, far too often, death.
American doctor declared free of Ebola finds the … American doctor Ian Crozier was treated for Ebola in Atlanta last year and declared free of the virus in his blood. But he had no way of knowing it still lurked in his eye.
World Health Organization declares Liberia free of … The World Health Organization on Saturday declared that the outbreak of the horrific disease in Liberia — one of the three West African hotspots in history’s largest Ebola outbreak– has ended 14 months after it officially began.
What did we Google in 2014? Google has released its annual round-up of the year’s top global searches. And this year, people wanted to know if they had Ebola.
Texas Ebola waste will not be coming to Louisiana The State of Louisiana has reached an agreement with Texas incinerator Veolia Environmental Services and Louisiana hazardous waste landfill Chemical Waste Management Friday to ensure that incinerator ash associated with the recent Dallas Ebola virus occurrence will not be transported or disposed of in Louisiana.
New Orleans area man being monitored for signs of … A man in the New Orleans area is being monitored for signs of Ebola after returning to Louisiana from visiting an Ebola-affected country, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said Thursday.