Use of Ebola Vaccines - Worldwide, 2021-2023
This report describes repurposing Ebola vaccines in the absence of large outbreaks. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - April 25, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Joel Breman, Who Helped Stop an Ebola Outbreak in Africa, Dies at 87
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, malaria and Guinea worm. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adam Nossiter Tags: Breman, Joel (1936-2024) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institutes of Health Epidemics Disease Rates Ebola Virus Smallpox Malaria Africa Deaths (Obituaries) Source Type: news
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans
On a sunny day 7 years ago in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda, researchers were startled to observe chimpanzees scoop dry bat feces from under a hollow tree and devour it. In 60 years of observations at Budongo, no one had ever seen such a thing, recalls veterinary epidemiologist Tony Goldberg of the University of Wisconsin—Madison. “Aside from the ick factor, we all had the exact same thought,” he says. “They must be exposed to horrible bat-borne viruses.”
That suspicion proved correct. Though the bat feces is rich in nutrients,
it contains dozens of previously unknown viruses
, Goldberg and...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Remembering Joel Breman, Ebola pioneer and beloved global health mentor
(Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joanne Silberner Source Type: news
Public health surveillance through community health workers: a scoping review of evidence from 25 low-income and middle-income countries - Alhassan JAK, Wills O.
BACKGROUND: The last 3 years have witnessed global health challenges, ranging from the pandemics of COVID-19 and mpox (monkeypox) to the Ebola epidemic in Uganda. Public health surveillance is critical for preventing these outbreaks, yet surveillance syste... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Towards resilient healthcare systems: a framework for crisis management - Emami SG, Lorenzoni V, Turchetti G.
This study addresses the crucial need for resilient healthcare systems, highlighted by recent global health emergencies such as the Ebola and COVID-19 crises. It identifies a significant gap in the current literature: a lack of practical, actionable framew... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 30, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Africa: Five Things to Remember a Decade After the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
[MSF] Ten years ago, on 23 March 2014, Guinea declared an outbreak of Ebola. Beforehand, Ebola outbreaks were known to be dangerous, but small. Not this time, though: it would take two years and more than 11,000 deaths, before the epidemic was over. Dr Michel Van Herp, a renown Ebola expert even before 2014, looks back at the biggest Ebola outbreak ever, and answers five key questions. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 21, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Aid and Assistance Ebola External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa NGOs and Civil Society West Africa Source Type: news
Trump Reverses on Medicare Cuts; Pill for Ebola? Chef Jailed for Serving Norovirus
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Former President Donald Trump walked back his earlier comments suggesting he would consider cuts to Social Security and Medicare, now vowing he "will never do anything... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 15, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
A decade later, Liberians remember those who died in Ebola outbreak
Liberians are gathering to mark a decade since the country was hit by a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, adding to the region’s economic and political troubles (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Canadian lab that handles world's deadliest viruses tightens security after investigation finds researchers with connections to the Chinese government and military gained access and MAILED live Ebola virus to Wuhan
A Chinese couple working at Canada's highest biosecurity lab were secretly sending information to Beijing, a bombshell investigation has found. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ebola Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure Ebola Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure
Data suggested that the vaccine reduces the risk for infection and reduces mortality rates by half.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 27, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Ervebo Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure to Ebola Ervebo Vaccine Saves Lives Even After Exposure to Ebola
Data suggested that the vaccine reduces the risk for infection and reduces mortality rates by half.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
New Ebola and Marburg Guideline Addresses 'Inappropriate Practices'
(MedPage Today) -- The World Health Organization's (WHO) updated infection prevention and control (IPC) guideline for Ebola and Marburg disease aims to address "inappropriate practices" in the management of these outbreaks, according to a summary... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - February 26, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Africa: Preventive Ebola Vaccination Safeguards Health Workers in Democratic Republic of the Congo
[WHO-AFRO] Kinshasa -- "Getting the Ebola vaccine has given me a deep sense of security and will allow me to concentrate fully on my work," says Chrysostome Kavusa Mwenderwa, a health care worker at Kalunguta Referral Hospital in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Ebola External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
