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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Cases Deaths Guinea 1,472 843 Liberia 4,249 2,458 Nigeria 20 8 Sierra Leone 3,252 1,183 Senegal 1 0 Total 8,994 4,492 WHO Figures – Data are based on official information reported by Ministries of Health. These numbers are subject to change due to ongoing reclassification, retrospective investigation and availability …