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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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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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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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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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“Restarting essential healthcare services is also a critical component of an Ebola response.”

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone

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 …

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Diary of an MSF epidemiologist in Sierra Leone

November 12, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Investigative journalism, Sierra Leone

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 …

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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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Diary – Paul Farmer

October 30, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Society & Culture, Working papers

I have just returned from Liberia with a group of physicians and health activists. We are heading back in a few days. The country is in the midst of the largest ever epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever. It’s an acute and brutal affliction. Ebola is a zoonosis – it leaps …

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From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic

October 30, 2014 | Filed under: Countries, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang, published in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnote, October 29, 2014. On a steamy mid-August afternoon, Mariatu Kargbo, a Sierra Leonian expat residing in Beijing, stood at the front of a packed hotel ballroom. As reported by Xinhua News (新华网), Kargbo addressed the crowd, saying: I know …

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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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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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Living with Ebola in West Africa

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Visual

An impressive series of pictures in West Africa, by Boston Big Picture, published on October 8 2014. Full Article: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2014/10/08/living-with-ebola-west-africa/vTCGB1bQTSbQitjUkSsTWI/story.html

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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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Case definitions from CDC

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Peer reviewed

Early recognition is critical for infection control. Health care providers should be alert for and evaluate any patients suspected of having Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Person Under Investigation (PUI) A person who has both consistent symptoms and risk factors as follows: Clinical criteria, which includes fever of greater than 38.6 …

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Ebola Outbreak in West Africa – Case Count – CDC

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

Case counts updated in conjunction with the World Health Organization updates and are based on information reported by the Ministries of Health As of October 19, 2014 (Updated October 22, 2014) Countries with Widespread Transmission Country Total Cases Laboratory-Confirmed Cases Total Deaths Guinea 1540 1289 904 Liberia 4665 965 2705 …

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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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MSF : Dossier Urgence Ebola

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone

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 …

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RSS Somatosphere

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  • Immortality in the Machine: Autoethnographic Notes from Radiation Therapy
  • In the Journals, April 2025
  • In the Journals, March 2025
  • In the Journals – A View from France

RSS Pubmed – Ebola

  • Developing digital learning to help reduce laboratory inequalities: a viral haemorrhagic fever case study
  • Unifying human infectious disease models and real-time awareness of population- and subpopulation-level intervention effectiveness
  • The influence of women's groups mobilisation on health emergency response: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Liberia
  • 3D Tissue Culture Model for Virology Studies
  • Nanoscale Mechanical and Morphological Characterization of Ebolavirus-like Particles: Implications for Therapeutic Development

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RSS Ebola Communication Network

  • After Ebola, Promoting New ‘Gold Star’ Brand to Increase Use of Health Services
  • Rebuilding Trust in Health Care through Community Dialogues
  • The Sexual Transmission of Ebola: Scicomm as a matter of life and death – Part 2 of 2
  • Where Does Ebola Come From? Communicating Science as a Matter of Life and Death – Part 1 of 2
  • After Reaching 42 Days with No Ebola Cases, One Thing Rings True for Sierra Leoneans: “We are all Survivors”

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