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Ebola et la faillite de la santé publique en Afrique

December 16, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Countries, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Publié par Fanny Chabrol, dans la Revue internationale et stratégique, 2014/4 (n° 96). Résumé L’épidémie à virus Ebola qui dévaste l’Afrique de l’Ouest révèle l’impuissance des systèmes de santé en Afrique subsaharienne. Par son ampleur et ses facteurs déclencheurs, cette catastrophe était largement prévisible et signe l’échec des politiques internationales …

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Appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial « Autour du virus Ebola »

December 10, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, France, French, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Spain, USA

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 …

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Caring as existential insecurity: quarantine, care, and human insecurity in the Ebola crisis

November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture

Published by Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf, in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, November 24, 2014.   In August of this year, when the Ebola outbreak escalated in Liberia and a state of emergency had been declared for the country, Fatu Kekula, a young Liberian nursing student, improvised personal protective equipment (PPE) …

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Experimental therapies: growing interest in the use of whole blood or plasma from recovered Ebola patients (convalescent therapies)

November 18, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, RDC, Sierra Leone

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 …

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Ebola vaccines, therapies, and diagnostics – WHO update

November 18, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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Social Pathways for Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Sierra Leone, and some Implications for Containment

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Published by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, October 31, 2014   Abstract The current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Upper West Africa is the largest ever recorded.  Molecular evidence suggests spread has been almost exclusively through human-to-human contact.  Social factors are thus clearly important to understand the epidemic and ways …

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What Factors Might Have Led to the Emergence of Ebola in West Africa?

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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I Got Ebola and Survived – A survivor describes his bout with Ebola

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Investigative journalism, Liberia

Published in The Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2014, by Ashoka Mukpo My own battle with Ebola began with a slight body ache on Oct. 1. For weeks, any small pain had made me uneasy, but I had chosen to trust the precautions that I was taking. I wore gloves …

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Tracking Ebola with CrisisNET and the Ushahidi Platform

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Countries, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, France, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, USA, Visual

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, …

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Ebola : les anthropologues en renfort

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, French, Guinea, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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Ebola, et ensuite ?

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, French, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Publié sur CNRS, Le Journal, le 13 novembre 2014, par Yannick Jaffré   Ebola n’est pas la seule maladie infectieuse à toucher l’Afrique. La persistance d’autres épidémies témoigne d’une situation sanitaire critique. L’anthropologue Yannick Jaffré revient sur les faiblesses structurelles qui minent le continent. (…) Des services de santé défaillants …

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Communicating Uncertainty – Ebola, Public Health, and the Scientific Process

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture

The levees of the Red River in Grand Forks, North Dakota, are built to withstand 51-ft water levels. In 1997, the National Weather Service predicted a flood, but despite a 35% margin of error for previous estimates, it emphasized that the river would crest at 49 ft at most. When …

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Ebola, epidemics, and ethics – what we have learned

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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Ebola virus disease outbreak: incorporating ethical analysis into the health system response

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture

by Abha Saxena, in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics The current outbreak of Ebola in western Africa has been unprecedented for various reasons, mostly because of its magnitude, its expansion across the borders of several countries of the region, and its propagation in capital cities. The outbreak initially involved …

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A comprehensive database of the geographic spread of past human Ebola outbreaks

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Peer reviewed

Published on Scientific Data, October 23, 2014 Abstract Ebola is a zoonotic filovirus that has the potential to cause outbreaks of variable magnitude in human populations. This database collates our existing knowledge of all known human outbreaks of Ebola for the first time by extracting details of their suspected zoonotic …

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Statement by MSF aid worker Dr. Craig Spencer

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Published on MSF’s website, November 11, 2014 Hello, my name is Craig Spencer. I am a physician and aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF. I’m proud to be among the ranks of more than 3,300 Doctors Without Borders responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. …

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Ebola Outbreaks Timeline

October 31, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Europe, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, USA

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 …

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Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster

October 31, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

By Guillaume Lachenal, in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, October 31, 2014. A French version of this piece was originally published in Libération on 18 September 2014. “It is useless to laboriously interpret disaster movies in terms of their relation to an ‘objective’ social crisis or even to an ‘objective’ phantasm of …

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Point épidémiologique en Afrique de l’Ouest 27/10/2014 – INVS

October 29, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

Points saillants Au total, 10 115 cas (suspects, probables et confirmés) et 4 913 décès (létalité 48,6%) ont été rapportés par l’OMS dans 4 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Guinée, Libéria, Sierra-Léone et Mali).   Le premier cas à virus Ebola a été rapporté au Mali par les autorités sanitaires le …

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mHealth takes on Ebola in Nigeria

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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A networked approach to improving the resilience of communities confronted by the threat of Ebola

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

The current Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic shows no sign of abating, and, with little effective infection control or prevention in place, the transmission is escalating on an unprecedented scale. In the absence of effective infection prevention and control at community level, the current epidemic curve indicates that cases are …

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RSS Somatosphere

  • Diffracting Trauma in the Global South between biology and culture / Difractar La Noción de Trauma en el Sur Global entre biología y cultura by Benjamin Hegarty
  • Writing Life (no. 21): An interview with Ruth Behar by Natashe Lemos Dekker
  • The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern by Esca van Blarikom
  • Writing Life No. 20: An Interview with Emma Kowal by Carina Truyts
  • Making embryos lively: The politics of embryo personhood when fertilization happens under a microscope by Manon Lefèvre

RSS Pubmed – Ebola

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data for Ebola Virus Drug Discovery
  • Characterization of Ebola Virus Mucosal Challenge Routes in Cynomolgus Macaques
  • Digital image analysis for biothreat detection <em>via</em> rapid centrifugal microfluidic orthogonal flow immunocapture
  • A pilot study: Validation of dried blood spots (DBS) to assess SARS-CoV2 IgG antibody immunoassays in underserved minority population
  • Using telehealth to support community health workers in Uganda during COVID-19: a mixed-method study

RSS The Lancet Global Health Blog

RSS Ebola Digest

RSS Médecins Sans Frontières

RSS Who – Outbreaks

RSS Reliefweb

  • Population health trends analysis and burden of disease profile observed in Sierra Leone from 1990 to 2017
  • World: CADIS Report 2014-2020 - Fullness of life in a resilient community on the footsteps of the Camillian Martyrs of Charity [EN/IT]
  • With EU support, Concern Worldwide plays pivotal role in COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Liberia and Sierra Leone
  • Guinea’s response to syndemic hotspots
  • World: Helpdesk Report K4D: Impact of COVID-19 on child labour in South Asia

RSS Ebola Deeply

RSS Ebola Communication Network

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