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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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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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New Ebola Virus Strain in Democratic Republic of the Congo

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, English, Peer reviewed, RDC

Ebola en RDC : une nouvelle souche du virus Paris, 15 octobre 2014 Alors qu’une épidémie d’Ebola fait rage depuis mars 2014 en Afrique de l’Ouest, un foyer de cette fièvre hémorragique est apparu en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) au mois d’août dernier, laissant craindre une propagation du virus en …

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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

  • Book review: Allen Tran’s ‘A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety’
  • 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

RSS The Lancet Global Health Blog

RSS Ebola Digest

RSS Médecins Sans Frontières

RSS Who – Outbreaks

RSS Reliefweb

RSS Ebola Deeply

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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