When an Ebola outbreak is detected, surveillance, community engagement , laboratory services and tracing infected persons should be activated to prevent rapid spread of the disease.
Blood is categorised by the naturally occurring proteins and sugars on the surface of red blood cells.
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Ashley Ng, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Few discoveries have revolutionised the practice of medicine as much as the discovery of human red blood cell groups. Unlike modern vampire and Time Lord mythologies, blood groups don’t have a particular…
An Ebola virus as seen through an electron microscope, with added colour.
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An outbreak of the Ebola virus, which started in a rural region of Guinea in West Africa, has now spread to the nation’s capital Conakry. It now reportedly involves 122 people, of which 78 have died. Additional…