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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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/
Rapid communications: Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria, July to September 2014, published on eurosurveillance.org We analyse up-to-date epidemiological data of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria as of 1 October 2014 in order to estimate the case fatality rate, the proportion of healthcare workers …
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 …
By Janina Kehr This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes A few months ago, the independent Spanish online newspaper El Diario published a cartoon entitled “Ebola in Madrid”. It showed a health worker, camouflaged in a green protection suit, wearing a white head shield and goggles, leaning over a …
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. …