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Public Radio East
March 23, 2018
Uganda got a bitter taste of that in 2000, when 425 cases of Ebola erupted in Gulu district. It was the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded - until 2014, when the virus killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa and was carried to the U.S. and Europe. So Ugandans were aware of these ...
University World News
March 23, 2018
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The Economist (blog)
March 23, 2018
No one was ready for Ebola when it hit West Africa at that time. By listing Disease X, an undetermined disease, the WHO is acknowledging that outbreaks do not always come from an identified source and that, as it admits, "a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently ...
The Atlantic
March 22, 2018
A career civil servant and public-health specialist, Schuchat has dealt with anthrax outbreaks in the United States, Ebola in West Africa, and SARS in China. She is highly respected within the agency, and many hoped that she would be permanently appointed. “You'd have joyous celebration if they madeÃÂ ...
Voice of America
March 22, 2018
Nearly 500 health workers died during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Front-line caregivers wear full-body protective suits when they come into contact with patients with virulent diseases, but the process of removing the gear is a prime opportunity for infection if the surface is contaminated.
The Hill
March 22, 2018
Fortunately, a global initiative exists to improve core public health capacities. In 2014, the United States launched the Global Health Security Agenda to help strengthen countries' capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Following the devastating Ebola epidemic in West Africa,ÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
March 22, 2018
By July, the Ebola outbreak was over, resulting in four deaths. This rapid release of US$ 2 million quite possibly saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars. In contrast, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 resulted in more than 11,000 deaths and cost more than US$ 3.6 billion to contain. Later inÃÂ ...
Kaiser Family Foundation
March 22, 2018
“Less than a third of the $4.5 billion pledged in 2015 to help three countries in West Africa recover from a devastating Ebola epidemic is reported to have been disbursed, according to a new tracking initiative developed by the United Nations and their three governments. The U.S., World Bank, AfricanÃÂ ...
Nature.com
March 15, 2018
An unprecedented outbreak of a deadly viral disease in Nigeria is showcasing the newfound might of the country's public-health agency. Reforms put in place since a devastating Ebola epidemic struck West Africa in 2014 have transformed how Nigeria responds to infectious disease — including the currentÃÂ ...
Science Daily
March 12, 2018
"We believe this is the first study to assess willingness to pay for an Ebola vaccine in the United States," Painter explains. "This is important because previous studies conducted in West Africa are not generalizable to the U.S. population. "We were unsure of what to expect. The actual risk of Ebola infectionÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
March 12, 2018
... challenges. The economy of the poverty-stricken country is in a poor state following a commodity price slump and an Ebola epidemic that killed thousands of people. ... The WHO says it's confident the last few cases from the deadliest ever outbreak of Ebola in West Africa can be contained. More thanÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
March 12, 2018
... 7 people, sterilized after dying due to the Ebola virus, in Kptema graveyard in Kenema, Sierra Leone on August 26, 2014. In recent months, Ebola a contagious disease for which there is no known treatment or cure has claimed at least 1429 lives in West Africa, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
Star2.com
March 12, 2018
BEV Kauffeldt's voice quavered as she described the plight of a young well technician employed in Liberia by the international humanitarian aid organisation Samaritan's Purse. The man lost 18 family members to Ebola when the virus ravaged several countries in West Africa almost two years ago, KauffeldtÃÂ ...
Vox
March 10, 2018
If you want to understand West Africa's largest-ever Lassa fever outbreak, which has killed 78 people so far, you need to know about rats. But first: Yes, there is an outbreak of the deadly, Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in one of the most populous countries on earth. When severe, in about 10 to 20 percent ofÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
March 9, 2018
During the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the first cases were initially misdiagnosed as cholera, and then later as Lassa fever on the basis of clinical symptoms. It took nearly 3 months before blood samples sent to Europe finally identified the disease as Ebola, during which time it was allowed toÃÂ ...
Herald-Mail Media
March 9, 2018
A "safety zone" has been set up for the care of a patient from West Africa who went to the Winchester Medical Center's emergency department Thursday ... There is "no concern" that the patient has been exposed to the Ebola virus, according to Valley Health, which owns and operates the medical center inÃÂ ...
Outbreak News Today
March 8, 2018
More than 11,000 people died during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013-16, demonstrating both the deadly nature of the virus and the limitations of the medication used to fight it. Image/CDC. Now, University of Guelph researchers have shown that an innovative antibody delivery method couldÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
March 8, 2018
Paul Richards says the West panicked during the Ebola epidemic in Africa in 2014, in "Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic'. ... Paul Richards says the international community's panicky response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa failed to take account of local expertise and commonÃÂ ...
Homeland Preparedness News
March 8, 2018
Death is a very real concern with Ebola, which was responsible for more than 11,000 people killed in West Africa between 2013 and 2016. For the purposes of their research, the team is now seeking research funding for human clinical trials from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, formedÃÂ ...
Science Daily
March 6, 2018
More than 11,000 people died during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013-16, demonstrating both the deadly nature of the virus and the ... "If you use an AAV gene therapy vector to deliver the DNA blueprint to a cell, that cell will produce a protective antibody against Ebola virus, which is thenÃÂ ...
Voice of America
March 6, 2018
A new study says more than 100,000 malaria cases went untreated in Liberia during the height of the Ebola crisis. The deadly virus spread in West Africa for two years beginning in 2014. The disease killed about 11,000 people. But it also severely affected basic health care services. Ebola kills about half ofÃÂ ...
BBC News
March 5, 2018
However, in severe cases, it can mimic another deadly haemorrhagic fever, Ebola, causing bleeding through the nose, mouth and other parts of the body. Lassa fever normally has a ... These small mammals are common across West Africa, where they easily find their way into homes. Another possibility isÃÂ ...
MD Magazine
February 24, 2018
A Texas-based research team will begin clinical trials on an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus. ZMapp, the monoclonal antibody combination therapy that was used to treat humans during the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak before even reaching human clinical trials, will be further researched byÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 20, 2018
The West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (ECOWAS-RCSDC)-the region's response to managing and preventing epidemics-goes operational in Abuja on Wednesday, nearly three years after heads of regional governments approved it in 2015. The West African HealthÃÂ ...
News from Tulane
February 20, 2018
“Coupling the powerful tools of systems biology research with the resources built up over the past fifteen years in West Africa will allow important advances in our understanding of Ebola and Lassa fever, two of the deadliest diseases known,” said Robert Garry, PhD, co-director of the new center andÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 20, 2018
The West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (ECOWAS-RCSDC)-the region's response to managing and preventing epidemics-goes operational in Abuja on Wednesday, nearly three years after heads of regional governments approved it in 2015. The West African HealthÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 20, 2018
More than 100,000 malaria cases went untreated when Liberia's health care system buckled under the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, shows how the toll of the Ebola outbreak goes beyond the 11,000 killed in West Africa by theÃÂ ...
Dailyuw
February 12, 2018
Acclaimed public health expert, Harvard physician and Partners In Health founder Paul Farmer addresses a sold-out lecture at Kane Auditorium on Wednesday, February 7. Farmer looked back on lessons learned during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed over 11,000 people over the courseÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 8, 2018
Dr. Sakoba Keita, who coordinated Guinea's national response to the Ebola outbreak from 2014-2016, told private radio station Espace FM that the new Lassa fever case was the country's first known one since 1996. The disease, however, has long existed in West Africa. Nigerian authorities have reportedÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 8, 2018
Ebola virus can infect the reproductive organs of male and female macaques, according to a study published in The American Journal of Pathology, suggesting that humans could be similarly infected. Prior studies of survivors of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa have revealed sexualÃÂ ...
The Independent
February 5, 2018
She currently provides arrangements for overland trips transiting through West Africa. “Yet, we've got so much more to offer as a standalone destination,” she tells me. “The beaches are West Africa's best, there's lively nightlife, and we have tropical rainforest. The challenge is overcoming being only knownÃÂ ...
Fairfield Daily Republic
February 4, 2018
Bev Kauffeldt's voice quavered as she described the plight of a young well technician employed in Liberia by the international humanitarian aid organization Samaritan's Purse. The man lost 18 family members to Ebola when the virus ravaged several countries in West Africa almost two years ago, Kauffeldt said. He and hisÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
People in West Africa are still trying to recover from an Ebola outbreak four years ago, an epidemic that claimed the lives of thousands of people in Sierra Leone alone. Survivors now complain they are not getting the help they need. Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports from the city of Waterloo, where some ... Ebola
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The Vodafone Foundation said analysis of such data could provide potentially life-saving insights during an epidemic, such as the 2014 Ebola outbreak across west Africa. “As we can now measure human mobility it is possible to model how infections spread,” said Joakim Reiter, the Vodafone externalÃÂ ... Ebola
TIME
February 28, 2018
With just a sneeze, a hug or a plane ride, a deadly germ can travel from West Africa to North Texas before we even realize the threat exists. We learned this in 2014, with the Ebola crisis. While Ebola is fairly hard to catch, it left more than 11,000 people dead — and served as an enormous wake-up call. Ebola
oaklandpost.org
February 28, 2018
“With the number and frequency of Ebola outbreaks increasing over time, the need to find effective measures to combat and prevent outbreaks is critical.” Rimoin said researchers know there are more than 10,000 survivors of the West Africa epidemic, but they don't know what long-term health effects thoseÃÂ ... Ebola
Madison.com
February 27, 2018
A UW-Madison lab next month will start making a vaccine against Ebola virus, which killed thousands in west Africa from 2014 to 2016. ... near UW Hospital, will produce up to 1,000 doses of vaccine for the clinical trial, to be led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a campus virologist and expert on Ebola and influenza. Ebola
Daily Trust
February 20, 2018
The West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (ECOWAS-RCSDC)—the region's response to managing and preventing ... The decision came after West Africa struggle against the region's first-ever outbreak of Ebola viral disease and lessons learnt from dealing the virus between inÃÂ ... Ebola
AllAfrica.com
February 20, 2018
The West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (ECOWAS-RCSDC)-the region's response to managing and preventing epidemics-goes operational in Abuja on Wednesday, nearly three years after heads of regional governments approved it in 2015. The West African HealthÃÂ ... Ebola
AllAfrica.com
February 20, 2018
More than 100,000 malaria cases went untreated when Liberia's health care system buckled under the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, shows how the toll of the Ebola outbreak goes beyond the 11,000 killed in West Africa by theÃÂ ... Ebola
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 18, 2018
The CDC's actions come amid expectations that the United States will let lapse $600 million in funding to combat global outbreaks, which was appropriated in 2014 at the height of a catastrophic Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Yet there is considerable evidence that this emergency funding worked. In WestÃÂ ... Ebola
Yahoo News
February 14, 2018
WASHINGTON – During the deadly 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Donald Trump tweeted around 50 times in October alone that the spread of the disease showcased President Barack Obama's failings. “Obama's fault,” he said in one post. “Nothing works in our once great country anymore,” he fumedÃÂ ... Ebola
Awoko
February 14, 2018
In the post-Ebola era, China has trained nearly 100 African public health officials and professionals, and has been helping Africa improve its public health system including Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. China is also assisting Sierra Leone in building a West Africa Tropical DiseasesÃÂ ... Ebola
Dailyuw
February 12, 2018
Acclaimed public health expert, Harvard physician and Partners In Health founder Paul Farmer addresses a sold-out lecture at Kane Auditorium on Wednesday, February 7. Farmer looked back on lessons learned during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed over 11,000 people over the courseÃÂ ... Ebola
World Health Organization
February 6, 2018
“Standby personnel have been critical in supporting WHO's response operations to emergencies in Yemen, Syria, Somalia and South Sudan and the Ebola disease outbreak in West Africa,” said Dr Brennan. The deployment system has been designed for speed and simplicity. A WHO country office makes a request to theirÃÂ ... Ebola
Science Daily
February 6, 2018
First appearing in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, Ebola has instilled fear wherever infections have emerged due to its high fatality rate ranging from 25% to 90%. Most recently, west Africa experienced a record-breaking outbreak in 2014-2016. The virus spreads via the bodily fluidsÃÂ ... Ebola
The Independent
February 5, 2018
She currently provides arrangements for overland trips transiting through West Africa. “Yet, we've got so much more to offer as a standalone destination,” she tells me. “The beaches are West Africa's best, there's lively nightlife, and we have tropical rainforest. The challenge is overcoming being only knownÃÂ ... Ebola
Fairfield Daily Republic
February 4, 2018
Bev Kauffeldt's voice quavered as she described the plight of a young well technician employed in Liberia by the international humanitarian aid organization Samaritan's Purse. The man lost 18 family members to Ebola when the virus ravaged several countries in West Africa almost two years ago, Kauffeldt said. He and hisÃÂ ... Ebola
Kaiser Family Foundation
January 29, 2018
West African Nations Continue To Feel Strains Caused By Ebola Outbreak ... Three years ago more than 11,000 people died of Ebola in West Africa. ... Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, the nations hit the hardest by the outbreak, have not had a reported Ebola case since at least March 2016, well beyondÃÂ ... Ebola
Deutsche Welle
January 27, 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo, in Central Africa, also has frequent Ebola outbreaks, "but they are usually not as big as the ones we saw in West Africa," Horby said. This is because the disease often shows up in remote and less-populated areas, generally leading to only a few infections. "But they areÃÂ ... Ebola
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