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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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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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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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Quand l’homme favorise les épidémies

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Countries, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Society & Culture

Publié sur CNRS Le Journal, le 23 octobre 2014, par Laure Cailloce Bactéries, virus et parasites ont toujours existé dans le grand livre du vivant. L’essor de l’élevage industriel, du commerce mondial, mais aussi l’entrée dans de nouveaux écosystèmes, comme pour Ebola, ont favorisé l’émergence de nouvelles niches pour ces …

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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 compared to others infectious diseases

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Investigative journalism, Peer reviewed, Visual

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

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Somatosphere’s Web Roundup: Ebola Update

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, France, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Spain, Working papers

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 …

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Ebola vaccine trials raise ethical issues

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

The Ebola virus keeps spreading in West Africa and some researchers say that a vaccine is necessary to halt the epidemic. The two most advanced candidates have recently entered safety trials, and if they do not cause harm and trigger the immune response scientists hope to see, the World Health …

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Le nouveau « Monsieur Ebola » fait le point sur la recherche en France

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, France, French, Guinea, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Le 21/20/2014, par Damien Coulomb, sur http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/ Le Pr Jean-François Delfraissy, directeur de l’Institut de microbiologie et maladies infectieuses (IMMI), vient d’être nommé par le Premier ministre Manuel Valls « coordinateur de l’ensemble des opérations internationales et nationales de réponse » à la crise Ebola. En compagnie d’Yves Lévy, président d’Aviesan et PDG de l’INSERM, il fait …

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Comment le Nigeria a vaincu Ebola

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Investigative journalism, Nigeria, Politics & Economy, Society & Culture

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, …

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Point épidémiologique en Afrique de l’Ouest au 20 octobre 2014 – INVS

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Senegal, Sierra Leone

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 …

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Les chercheurs français mobilisés sur tous les fronts contre Ebola

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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Ebola & animal-to-human diseases – STEPS Center

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

The truth about Ebola STEPS Centre researchers are studying how Ebola and other zoonotic diseases are understood by different actors in the media, institutions and localities in Africa. Our work sets dominant views of Ebola based on security, global risks and biomedical framings of the disease, against neglected perspectives based …

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West Africa Outbreak Infographic – CDC

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone, Visual

  Full infographic: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/west-africa-outbreak-infographic.pdf

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Ebola virus disease: Fact sheet N°103 – Sept 2014 – WHO

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

  Key facts Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality …

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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

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  • 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

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RSS Ebola Communication Network

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