Indian authorities have ordered Maiden Pharmaceuticals to stop producing cough syrups that may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia. State health minister says inspections at a factory found several violations of good practices.
Image caption: At least six health workers at Mubende hospital have tested positive for Ebola
Quote Message: You start with general body weakness, fevers. Your first thought as a doctor is to rule out the common things we have. I went and took my test for Ebola. After two days when they called me to the hospital, I knew it was positive. Quote Message: So after we went to the isolation [centre] with the symptoms just starting and two, three, four, five days down the road we were at the peak of all the symptoms that you know of; the vomiting, the diarrhoea, the general body weakness. It was not a very good experience.”
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