Responding to Ebola
<p class="MsoNormal">I was struck by the NY Times article that described tracing the path of the recent Ebola outbreak back to a two year old boy living in Guinea, Africa (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/world/africa/tracing-ebolas-breakout-to-an-african-2-year-old.html?_r=0">NY Times</a>) on the border of Sierra Leone. Not only does it forever impress me how epidemiologists and health officials are able to map the transmission of a rapidly spreading disease back to a likely origin, but the mystery surrounding how it all began is not, nor likely to ever be, known. Was it a...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 14, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care epidemic syndicated World Health Source Type: blogs
Call for papers: Ebola and the law
Call for papers Ebola and the Law Biolaw section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)Washington, D.C.Monday, January 5, 2015, 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The 2014 west African outbreak of the Ebola virus is the most severe epidemic attributed to this pathogen since 1976, when international health officials began keeping records on Ebola. As of August 2014, the total number of suspected cases has approached 2,000, and the number of suspected deaths has exceeded 1,000. The World Health Organization has designated the health crisis as one of international concern. The law has a strong stake in containing this ...
Source: BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences - August 13, 2014 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Jim Chen Source Type: blogs
Ebola virus
An ebook version of Ebola and Marburg Viruses (Eds: Hans-Dieter Klenk and Heinz Feldmann) is now available for instant download Ebola and Marburg Viruses: Molecular and Cellular Biology Editor: Hans-Dieter Klenk and Heinz Feldmann (Institute for Virology, Marburg and Canadian Science Centre, Winnipeg) Publication date: January 2004 Ebook: Only GBP 9.99 Pages: x + 370 Download now Ebola and Marburg viruses cause severe haemorrhagic fevers. Much research has been performed in recent years on the molecular and genetic properties of these viruses and in particular has focused on molecular structure, replication and virus-ho...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - August 11, 2014 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
TWiV 297: Ebola! Don’t panic
On episode #297 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVites present an all-ebolavirus episode, tackling virology, epidemiology, and approaches to prevention and cure that are in the pipeline.
You can find TWiV #297 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 10, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral Ebola ebolavirus filovirus Guinea hemorrhagic fever Liberia Reston Sierra Leone vaccine Zaire Source Type: blogs
Ebolavirus vaccines and antivirals
As the epidemic of Zaire ebolavirus in Western Africa continues (1,779 cases and 961 deaths in four countries), many are questioning why there are no means of preventing or stopping infection. In the past two decades there has been substantial research into developing and testing active and passive vaccines and antiviral drugs, although none have yet been licensed for use in humans.
Using antibodies to treat infection with ebolaviruses with antibodies is probably the best known therapy, because it was used to treat a two Americans who were infected while working in Liberia. They received a mixture of three monocl...
Source: virology blog - August 8, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information antiviral ebola virus ebolavirus filovirus Guinea hemorrhagic fever Liberia monoclonal antibody therapy Sierra Leone vaccine ZMapp Source Type: blogs
Ebola Virus Humor Memes and Stories.
I know it's hard to imagine that something as awful as Ebola virus could be funny. Well, it's true. The Happy Hospitalist has created a collection of mostly original Ebola humor content that can't be found anywhere else on the internet, except on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. This humor is not meant to make light of the devastating disease and morbidity this virus has brought upon hundreds of West African natives and a couple of white Americans. That pain and suffering is fully understood and appreciated. We're all in this together, except for those in isolation. They're in it alone. ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - August 8, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Controversy is Growing Over Who Gets Ebola Secret Serum?
Contoversy is growing over who gets Ebola secret serum. Many African leaders, health officials, and citizens are outraged that an experimental “secret” serum called ZMAPP was made available to Dr. Kent Brantly and nurse Nancy Whitebol in an attempt to fend off the deadly Ebola virus.
Please also see Can Gingko and Turmeric Help Stop Ebola?
Many critical of this distribution point out that over 60 African doctors and nurses fighting the disease have perished from contracted Ebola infections without the drug being offered on an experimental basis.
Now, three prominent Ebola experts are calling for experimental dr...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 6, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease africans doctor Ebola kent brantly MAPP Nancy Whitebol Nigerian nurse Peter piot secret serum vaccines WHO ZMAPP Source Type: blogs
Medicare Pays $220 Million a Year for Acthar Without Any Controlled Trials that Prove it Works - While We Have No Money to Develop Ebola Vaccines or Treatment?
Introduction - No Money for Ebola Vaccine DevelopmentWhile a new Ebola epidemic continues in Africa, people in developed countries are getting worried. Even the 0.1%, who may have rarely worried about our dysfunctional health care system before, are getting nervous. For example, this week, the Donald seemed panic stricken that Ebola infected American health workers might be allowed to return to the US, no matter what the precautions. As reported by Politico,Donald Trump has a message for the Ebola patient coming to the United States for treatment: Stay out.'Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days â€...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 5, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: ACTH Acthar deception Ebola virus executive compensation FDA health care prices marketing perverse incentives Questcor You heard it here first Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, August 5, 2014
From MedPage Today:
Ebola: Hunt On to Treat, Prevent the ‘Merciless’ Virus. In the summer and fall of 1976, two outbreaks of a previously unknown hemorrhagic fever took place in Sudan and Zaire. There was — because of its very novelty — no specific treatment and no vaccine.
Four Things Mummies Tell Us About Atherosclerosis. A series of articles on the Horus study of mummies from around the world appearing in Global Heart showed just how universal atherosclerosis appears to have been across the millennia.
Survey: 1 In 5 Uninsured Don’t Want Coverage. Though millions of people gained health co...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 5, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Can Herbs Help Stop Ebola
For a discussion of which herbs might be effective  against Ebola. There currently is no cure using conventional drugs and there is no vaccine.
The post Can Herbs Help Stop Ebola appeared first on InsideSurgery Medical Information Blog. (Source: Inside Surgery)
Source: Inside Surgery - August 4, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Uncategorized cure Ebola herbs stop vaccine Source Type: blogs
Can Gingko and Turmeric Help Stop Ebola?
Summary
There is no known pharmaceutical currently available that specifically treats Ebola disease.
One treatment modality that should be considered is the use of herbal medicines, which have both centuries old anecdotal success as well as recent modern biochemical and formal research rationales for their use.
Five areas of action that could be addressed by the herbal medicines as it relates to Ebola would be:
VP24/immune system evasion
GP protein/replicatio;
herbal strategies effective against similar hemorrhagic disease
beneficial modulation of patient immune and inflammatory response systems
prophylactic use for heal...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease ayurvedic baicalen cathepsin b dengue Ebola gingko herb Quercetin resveratrol rosemary sage st johns work turmeric Source Type: blogs
Can Rife Therapy Help Stop Ebola Disease?
Ebola disease. As the world watches with increasing horror the slow but sure spread of this killer, health authorities are struggling with how best to treat the afflicted while maintaining strict isolation and quarantine.
Distressingly, many healthcare workers taking care of ill Ebola disease patients have themselves been infected and are in mortal danger, including Americans Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, aid workers for the charity Samaritan’s Purse.
The Ebola disease is highly infectious, meaning once a patient comes in contact with the virus, a severe illness almost always develops. Patient commonly develo...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease cure Ebola kent brantly nancy writebol PERL Rife samaritans purse treatment vaccine Source Type: blogs
No Treatment or Vaccine for Ebola, but a $1000 Pill for Hepatitis C
The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa continues to grow, and now appears to be the worst known epidemic of that disease to date. In the US and Western Europe, press reports are now raising concerns that the disease could spread there. For example, CNN, in an article entitled "Ebola Fears Hits Close to Home," was a section headed "Could Ebola spread to the US?" An ABC article was entitled, "How the US Government Could Evacuate Americans with Ebola."Reasons for fear of spread are the increased mobility of people made possible by air travel, and the lack of specificity of early symptoms of Ebola, so infectious p...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 31, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: Ebola virus economism hepatitis C neoliberalism pharmaceuticals Sovaldi Source Type: blogs
Replace Sovaldi With The Ebola Vaccine To See How Stupid and Short Sighted Cost Complaints Are
Is an ebola vaccine worth as much as a Hep C cure? (Source: drugwonks.com Blog)
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - September 6, 2007 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
NYC Doctor Flunks Ebola Vaccine Test
What if your doctor was responsible for killing off development of an Ebola vaccine? (Source: drugwonks.com Blog)
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - September 6, 2007 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
