La revue Anthropologie et Santé lance un appel à contribution en vue d’un numéro spécial “Autour du virus Ebola”, coordonné par Anne Marie Moulin. Texte de l’appel Le virus de la fièvre hémorragique Ebola a concerné d’abord l’Afrique de l’Ouest et l’Afrique centrale, où des anthropologues escortent d’ores et déjà …
Published on who.int, 26 September 2014 The current evidence base: limited data – from 1976 up to now Convalescent therapy was first used for a young woman infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) in 1976 – the year the virus first emerged. The woman was …
Convalescent blood and plasma therapies Experimental therapies: growing interest in the use of whole blood or plasma from recovered Ebola patients (convalescent therapies) 26 September 2014 WHO interim guidelines on use of convalescent whole blood and convalescent plasma 10 September 2014 Potential vaccines, medicines and other health technologies WHO Meeting …
By PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, November 11, 2014 Abstract An Ebola outbreak of unprecedented scope emerged in West Africa in December 2013 and presently continues unabated in the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Ebola is not new to Africa and outbreaks have been confirmed as far back …
The Ebola epidemic has finally captured international attention. Coverage of Ebola was minimal when the disease was confined to West Africa, but a small number of recent cases in the US and Europe have sparked frantic, hysterical reporting from western media outlets and subsequent public panic. In light of this, …
Publié sur CNRS Le Journal, le 3 octobre 2014, par Sylvain Guilbaud On redoute plusieurs centaines de milliers de nouveaux cas d’Ebola en Afrique de l’Ouest d’ici à la fin de l’année. Sur place, les difficultés de communication compliquent la riposte contre le virus. Rencontre avec Alain Epelboin, spécialiste d’anthropologie …
When considering the allocation of scarce resources, the most pressing question is: who should be treated? Abstract The current Ebola epidemic has presented challenges both medical and ethical. Although we have known epidemics of untreatable diseases in the past, this particular one may be unique in the intensity and rapidity …
Taps data and citizen engagement against the spread of disease FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE; LAGOS, NIGERIA – 27 Oct 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched several initiatives to help curb the spread of Ebola in West Africa. They include a citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities …
The healthmap.org website is keeping up to date a timeline about the spread of the virus from March 14. October 31, 2014 Spain 1 case Guinea 1906 cases – 997 deaths Sierra Leone 5235 cases – 1500 deaths Senegal 1 case Mali 1 case – 1 death Liberia 6535 cases …
In what’s being hailed as a “spectacular success story,” the World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, with public health agencies and government officials citing a mobile health initiative as largely responsible for the triumph. Shortly after the WHO declared Africa’s most populous country Ebola-free …
By Sara M Bergstresser This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes A great deal has happened since the first Web Roundup on Ebola. The epidemic has spread both in West Africa and globally, and material about Ebola has spread throughout the web. According to the CDC, as …
Par CORDÉLIA BONAL, 21 Octobre 2014 À 07:34, Libération.fr L’OMS a déclaré lundi la fin officielle de l’épidémie dans le pays, où vingt personnes ont été touchées. Le Nigeria a échappé au scénario noir. Quand, le 20 juillet, un premier cas d’Ebola s’est manifesté à Lagos, mégalopole de plus de vingt millions d’habitants, …
Points saillants Au total, 9 212 cas (suspects, probables et confirmés) et 4 554 décès (létalité 49,4 %) ont été rapportés par l’OMS dans 5 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Guinée, Sierra-Léone, Libéria, Nigéria et Sénégal). Depuis la dernière parution du Point Epidémiologique, la Sierra Léone rapporte 460 nouveaux cas, le …
Rapid communications: Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria, July to September 2014, published on eurosurveillance.org We analyse up-to-date epidemiological data of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria as of 1 October 2014 in order to estimate the case fatality rate, the proportion of healthcare workers …