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 …
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, …
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. …
Ebola: Hard-won gains in Liberia must not be undermined. International response must adapt to changing epidemic pattern. Published on MSF’s website, November 10, 2014 Monrovia – While the number of new Ebola cases reported in Liberia has declined in recent weeks, the outbreak is far from over and new hotspots continue …
Field notes from Kathryn Stinson, MSF epidemiologist in Sierra Leone After leaving Freetown, capital of Ebola-plagued Sierra Leone, for the airport by hydrofoil, I reflected on how I felt when undertaking this route at the start of my journey. It was night, and there was no electricity. We were disorientated by sensory …
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 …
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 …
Clever “Microbe-scope” chart http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/oct/15/visualised-how-ebola-compares-to-other-infectious-diseases Google Document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kHCEWY-d9HXlWrft9jjRQ2xf6WHQlmwyrXel6wjxkW8/edit#gid=0
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 …
Ebola – La coalition mondiale de l’inaction by msf Avec près de 9000 cas et 4492 morts (source : OMS, au 16 octobre 2014), l’épidémie d’Ebola en cours en Afrique de l’Ouest est la plus importante jamais enregistrée depuis l’identification de la maladie, en 1976. Dès les premières semaines qui …
By Makiko Kitamura and Naomi Kresge, October 20, 2014, BloombergBusinessweek http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-19/ebola-front-line-doctors-at-breaking-point At 3:30 a.m. in the world’s biggest Ebola treatment center, Daniel Lucey found the outbreak reduced to its essentials: patients lying on mattresses on the floor and vomiting in the dark, visible only by the wavering flashlight beam of a …
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, …
Clashes in Sierra Leone over Ebola dead Sierra Leone residents clash with police over Ebola response Sierra Leone Residents Clash With Police Over Removal of Ebola … UPDATE 2-Sierra Leone residents clash with police over Ebola … Police clash with residents in Sierra Leone over slow Ebola response Ebola victim’s body spurs clashes in Sierra Leone by Alain Bertho, Anthropologie du présent, october 16 2014, http://berthoalain.com/ Full post: http://berthoalain.com/2014/10/16/ebola-emeute-a-freetown-14-octobre-2014/
Le Monde | 22.10.2014 à 12h58 • Mis à jour le 22.10.2014 à 15h45 | Par Paul Benkimoun Les organismes publics de recherche sont mobilisés pour répondre à l’épidémie de fièvre Ebola qui sévit en Afrique de l’Ouest, et ils le font savoir. L’Alliance nationale pour les sciences de la vie (Aviesan) qui les regroupe a présenté, mardi 21 octobre, les actions dans …
Le Monde.fr | 20.10.2014 à 15h55 • Mis à jour le 21.10.2014 à 14h23 |Par Guillaume Lachenal (Historien, maître de conférences à l’université Paris-Diderot, membre de l’Institut universitaire de France) et Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Médecin et anthropologue, professeur à l’Ecole de santé publique de l’université de Montréal, membre du Collège d’études …
By Sophie Kleeman October 7, 2014, on Mic.com The Ebola epidemic has killed 3,431 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; it has killed one in the United States. Liberia’s Defense Minister Brownie Samukai told the U.N. Security Council in September that the disease poses a “serious threat” to the country’s …
Ebola is a problem that will not be solved, because it isn’t profitable to do so. by Leigh Phillips The Onion, as ever, is on point with its “coverage” of the worst recorded outbreak of Ebola, and the first in West Africa, infecting some 1,779 people and killing at least 961. …
C’est ici que sont analysés les échantillons sanguins prélevés sur le cas “probable” d’Ebola isolé dans une chambre stérile de l’hôpital Bichat. Découvrez comment les virologues travaillent. ANALYSES. Une femme récemment rentrée d’Afrique et soupçonnée d’être porteuse du virus Ebola a été hospitalisée à l’hôpital Bichat, où elle aurait été placée en isolement …
Guillaume Lachenal a publié sur le site internet de Libération, en date du 18 septembre 2014, une très intéressante tribune traitant de l’épidémie actuelle du virus Ebola. «Inutile d’interpréter laborieusement les films catastrophe dans leur rapport à une crise sociale “objective” ou même à un phantasme “objectif” de catastrophe», écrivait Jean Baudrillard …