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Yadav Bhal Chandra Biography

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Know your Politician Yadav,Shri Bhal Chandra Constituency   : Khalilabad (Uttar Pradesh ) Party Name : Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) Father’s Name Shri Ram Sahai Yadav Mother’s Name […]

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Yadav Dr Jaswant Singh Biography

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Know your Politician Yadav,Dr. Jaswant Singh Constituency   : Alwar (Rajasthan ) Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) Father’s Name Shri Surat Singh Yadav Mother’s Name Smt. […]

Gene studies of Ebola in Sierra Leone show virus is mutating fast

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Health workers wear protective clothing before carrying an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Genetic studies of some of the earliest Ebola cases in Sierra Leone reveal more than 300 genetic changes in the virus as it leapt from person to person, changes that could blunt the effectiveness of diagnostic tests and experimental treatments now in development, researchers said on Thursday. It’s mutating,” said Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University and the Broad Institute, who led the massive study of samples from 78 people in Sierra Leone, all of whose infections could be traced to a faith healer whose claims of a cure attracted Ebola patients from Guinea, where the virus first took hold. The findings, published in Science, suggest the virus is mutating quickly and in ways that could affect current diagnostics and future vaccines and treatments, such as GlaxoSmithKline’s Ebola vaccine, which was just fast-tracked to begin clinical trials, or the antibody drug ZMapp, being developed by California biotech Mapp Biopharmaceutical. The findings come as the World Health Organization said that the epidemic could infect more than 20,000 people and spread to more countries.

Comedian Joan Rivers, 81, rushed to New York hospital

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TV personality Joan Rivers and daughter Melissa Rivers leave following a Spring/Summer 2013 collection show at New York Fashion Week

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Acerbic comedian and fashion critic Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on Thursday after she reportedly stopped breathing during surgery on her vocal chords at a nearby clinic, the hospital said. Mount Sinai gave no details on the condition of the 81-year-old Brooklyn-born celebrity but said it would provide an update as it becomes available. Ken Baker, an entertainment journalist at E! News, which features Rivers as host of its show “Fashion Police,” said on his Twitter account that Rivers was in stable condition. …

Belafonte, Miyazaki to receive Academy’s Governors Awards

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Belafonte speaks as he accepts the Spingarn Award during the 44th Annual NAACP Image Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles

American singer and actor Harry Belafonte, French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, Japanese animated film director Hayao Miyazaki and Irish actress Maureen O’Hara will be honored with Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said on Thursday. The academy, which hosts Hollywood’s annual Oscars ceremony and is made up of some 6,500 members of the film industry, bestows the Governors Awards to honor a person’s lifetime achievements in film. The Governors Awards, also called honorary Oscars, are handed out at a star-studded Hollywood ceremony in November. Belafonte, 87, will be given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award for his work in social causes, including famine relief and education.