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Pharmaceutical Processing
April 3, 2018
Scientists have identified potential biomarkers in nonhuman primates exposed to Ebola virus (EBOV) that appeared up to four days before the onset of fever, ... More than 28,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases have been reported in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, with more than 11,000 reported deaths,Ãâà...
ScienceNordic
April 3, 2018
Michael Lundblad (ML): The zombies in the film evoke the kind of panic caused by recent viral pandemics, such as the 2014 outbreak of ebola in countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, which resulted in roughly 15,000 lab-confirmed cases and over 11,000 deaths.1 The extreme response inÃâà...
Rewire.News
April 2, 2018
On Tuesday, we wrote about the plight of Nancy Harris, a Liberian teacher in Alabama and a recipient of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), ... designation for people from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone was established from 2014 to 2017 during and immediately after the West African Ebola outbreak,Ãâà...
Reliefweb
March 31, 2018
These graduates also are critical to Liberia's post-Ebola and post-war recovery. Attendees at the graduation program received congratulatory messages from many Liberian government officials: the acting deputy minister of health of Liberia; Minister of Health Dr. Wilhemina Jallah; the Speaker of the HouseÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 22, 2018
The president of the Ebola Survivors Network in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone Mr. Patrick Farley says Ebola survivors in Liberia are crying for a better healthcare. "The survivors are still being stigmatized, some of them are afraid to go to hospital because they will not be treated. The survivors are livingÃâà...
WSMV Nashville
March 13, 2018
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) workers in Monrovia, Liberia during the Ebola crisis in 2014. ... They are: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF); Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease; Lassa fever; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and SevereÃâà...
Front Page Africa
March 9, 2018
Pussah sees his innovation as a way of giving back to Liberia after years of studying and working in the United States. ... Long standing impacts from the war compounded by the 2015 school closure due to the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) outbreak, continue to take a toll on the fragile education system.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
March 9, 2018
Though I've been involved in many discussions relating to gender perspectives of dowry, I had never experienced the gravity of how a dowry can affect women's land and property rights until I travelled to Liberia. There, I joined a team of researchers on an upcoming study on women's land rights in threeÃâà...
Front Page Africa
March 9, 2018
She however pledged the ministry's commitment to work with SOS in protecting and caring for children at the village, especially those victimized by the Ebola crisis. SOS is currently operating in two main locations in Liberia, a village in Matadi in Monrovia and another, the Juah Town family home, in GrandÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 9, 2018
UNDP: Liberia's 12-year civil war destroyed 75 percent of educational infrastructure and 95 percent of health facilities, and the country is still recovering from the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic. Why is the Government of Liberia prioritizing these plans for climate change adaptation, also known as NationalÃâà...
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 ofÃâà...
Yale News
February 23, 2018
All told, it is estimated Liberia lost 8% of its doctors, nurses, and midwives to Ebola; Sierra Leone lost 7%; and Guinea 1%. Devastation of West Africa's healthcare workforce, in turn, severely impacted healthcare services for the treatment and control of HIV and tuberculosis, resulting in another 10,600 livesÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 21, 2018
A little over 150 documented Ebola orphans in some poor communities in urban and rural Liberia need urgent socioeconomic and educational assistance in order to achieve their dreams. Reverend Saa S. Blama, national coordinator of the Diompillor America Incorporated Liberia chapter, made the SOSÃâà...
Citizen
February 21, 2018
“Ebola's collateral effects on (Liberia's) health system likely caused more deaths than Ebola did directly,” the university said in a press release. One of the most pernicious effects of the virus was the infection of almost 300 medical staff in Liberia, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures, limitingÃâà...
PLOS Research News
February 20, 2018
Nearly four years have passed since the beginning of the deadly outbreak of Ebola virus in Africa in 2014. Concentrated in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the epidemic resulted in over 11,000 deaths and nearly 30,000 reported cases of Ebola over two years. Until now, it was unknown how such anÃâà...
Medical Xpress
February 20, 2018
The effects of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014-2015 were felt not only directly, in the 28,616 cases of EVD and 11,310 deaths, but also indirectly, through the disruption in the provision of healthcare in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia—the countries most severely impacted by the outbreak.
BBC News
February 18, 2018
It has been four years since the Ebola virus outbreak in the West African states of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone was first reported. Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham ... The Ebola crisis was a shock to the Liberian health system, which was quickly overwhelmed. The country's infrastructure wasÃâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
Some Liberians have been eligible for either Temporary Protected Status or Deferred Enforced Departure since March 1991 due to civil wars, fragile political and economic conditions and an Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, the memorandum said. “Liberia has also concluded reconstruction from prior conflicts,Ãâà...
BU Today
December 31, 1999
In 2014, an Ebola epidemic began to ravage West Africa. It became the largest Ebola outbreak in history, lasting two years and infecting an estimated 28,000 people—most in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. Ultimately, the disease took more than 11,000 lives. Many of those lives might have been savedÃâà...
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