GSK ends development of Ebola vaccine, hands work to U.S. institute
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline is giving up its work on developing three potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses, despite an ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
A Nationwide Flash-Mob Study for Suspected ACS A Nationwide Flash-Mob Study for Suspected ACS
The authors used a"flash mob" methodology to determine whether acute coronary syndrome can be safely ruled out using the Marburg Heart Score or FP clinical assessment in an emergency care setting.Annals of Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news
'Flash mob' study puts clinical decision rules for ACS to the test
(American Academy of Family Physicians) A novel 'flash mob' study finds that, in emergency care, acute coronary syndrome cannot be safely ruled out using the Marburg Heart Score or the family physicians' clinical assessment. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Surveillance Report: Ebola and Marburg Fevers; Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 7/2019.
This three-page report on cases of Ebola and Marburg fevers is based on data for 2017 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on December 11, 2018. For 2017, 28 European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported case-based data, and no cases of Ebola virus disease and Marburg hemorrhagic fever were reported in the EU/EEA.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - July 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Travel-Related Infectious Diseases: Chapter 4: Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/2019.
This resource is Chapter 4 of the book Health Information for International Travel/2020 Yellow Book, and focuses on viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola and Marburg. It discusses transmission, epidemiology, types of viral hemorrhagic viruses, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - July 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Groundbreaking study could lead to fast, simple test for Ebola virus
(Loyola University Health System) In a breakthrough that could lead to a simple and inexpensive test for Ebola virus disease, researchers have generated two antibodies to the deadly virus. The antibodies, which are inexpensive to produce, potentially could be used in a simple filter paper test to detect Ebola virus and the related Marburg virus. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 7, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
UTMB to lead program to advance treatments against potentially bioterrorist pathogens
(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Profectus Biosciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Mapp Biopharmaceutical and Genevant Sciences Corp. have been awarded up to $35 million to advance the development of rapid-acting vaccines and broad-spectrum treatments of the highly lethal hemorrhagic fever viruses Ebola and Marburg. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Pan-filovirus T-cell vaccine protects mice from Ebola and Marburg
(PLOS) Vaccines that induce protective T-cell responses could protect against members across the filovirus family, according to a study published Feb. 28 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Tom á Hanke of the University of Oxford, Bette Korber of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and colleagues (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 28, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Strangers in the Land: A Congolese Murder Case
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the Third World. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound. The sound! Cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around.By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Jan 21 2019 (IPS)I thought about this song by Paul Simon while I in 2011 spent a few weeks in Kinshasa. I was a foreign man in a strange world, surrounded by sights and sounds, completely dependent on my new-found Congolese friends. When our taxi got stuck in a traffic jam and...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Africa Aid Armed Conflicts Crime & Justice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Ebola and Marburg Haemorrhagic Fevers: Outbreaks and Case Locations
Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 1/10/2019.
This Web page, updated in January 2019, provides information about incidents and outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg, both viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF). It describes current incidents and outbreaks, including the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North-Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); outbreaks in 2017; the West Africa outbreak 2014 to 2016; linked Ebola outbreaks and cases in other countries (2014 to 2015); and a historic map of outbreaks.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - January 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Newly Identified Virus Similar to Ebola, Marburg
Mengla virus, detected in bats in China, infects cells through the same host receptor targeted by the deadly pathogens. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - January 9, 2019 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
New bat-borne virus related to Ebola discovered by Singapore team
(Duke University Medical Center) Newly discovered Mengla virus is evolutionarily closely related to Ebola virus and Marburg virus and shares several important functional similarities with them. For example, the genome organisation of the Mengl à virus is consistent with other filoviruses, coding for seven genes. The Mengl à virus also uses the same molecular receptor, a protein called NPC1, as Ebola virus and Marburg virus to gain entry into cells and cause infection. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
WHO (World Health Organization) Emergency Quality Assessment Mechanism for EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) IVDs (In Vitro Diagnostics): Public Report; Product: RealStar ® Filovirus Screen RT-PCR Kit 1.0 (2019)
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 1/2019.
This 41-page document describes the 2019 updated emergency quality assessment mechanism for Ebola virus disease in vitro diagnostics for RealStar ® Filovirus Screen RT-PCR Kit 1.0. This product is a manual in vitro diagnostic test, based on real-time PCR technology, for the qualitative detection and differentiation of Ebola- and Marburg virus- specific RNA in human EDTA plasma.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - January 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Bats in Sierra Leone Carry Marburg Virus
It's the first time the deadly pathogen has been found in West Africa. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - December 31, 2018 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Global Health: Marburg Virus, Related to Ebola, Is Found in Bats in West Africa
The discovery was part of a U.S.-led effort to spot dangerous pathogens in animals before humans are endangered. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Tags: Marburg Virus Bats Epidemics Centers for Disease Control and Prevention United States Agency for International Development University of California, Davis Africa Source Type: news
