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Jim Slade
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Ebola: New Studies model a deadly epidemic
Researchers from Arizona State University and Georgia State University are trying to better understand the epidemiology and control of Ebola Virus Disease in order to alleviate suffering and prevent future disease outbreaks from reaching the catastrophe proportions of the current crisis. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150206111704.htm  |
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A downside on a happy development was that a vaccine trial was stopped because those in the test would not get enough exposure... a drop in cases. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/ebola-drug-trial-liberia-halted
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Jim Slade
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How trials will work for Ebola Vaccines
This an excellent article from the February 11, 2015 Washington Post with a map, charts and graphs to help one understand Ebola vaccines. Two promising Ebola vaccines have begun clinical trials in West Africa. A different type of trial is planned for each of the three countries hit hardest by the epidemic. This phase could take a year or more, said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. A trial's length depends on the spread of the epidemic, and this one is subsiding. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/h...-for-ebola-vaccines/1594/ |
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Jim1348
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Bob Simon finished the 60 Minutes report "ZMapp," on the development of a promising drug to combat Ebola, the day he died.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/bob-simons-final-report/ |
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New WHO approved Ebola infection test gives result in 15 minutes, instead of 12-24 hours, with 92% accuracy if positive, 85% if negative.
http://www.who.int/medicines/ebola-treatment/1st_antigen_RT_Ebola/en/# |
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Jim Slade
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Nearly Halted in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea
----------------------------------------Sierra Leone thought it had beaten back the disease, then two fishing boats carrying three infected mariners arrived at a wharf in February. In this 3-1-15 New York Times article Dr. Emmanuel Conteh, the district's Ebola response coordinator, summoned about 125 traditional healers, tribal chiefs and other local leaders. He called for a suspension of traditional practices and warned that criminal summonses were being issued to anyone accused of hiding the sick. Experts fear that such threats will lead more people to go underground. http://nyti.ms/18z5PgN [Edit 1 times, last edit by Jim Slade at Mar 1, 2015 7:25:34 AM] |
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Jim Slade
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The fear of Ebola led to slayings-and a whole village was punished
The Washington Post reports that on September 16, 2014 in a peaceful Guinean farming village local officials, doctors, journalist and a popular pastor were among eight people killed when they came to teach about Ebola. http://wapo.st/1N3rspd |
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Australian virus might be answer to effective Ebola vaccine
An experimental Ebola vaccine made using an Australian virus called Kunjin might help in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, an international study led by The University of Queensland has found. “We immunised four African green monkeys with a vaccine made from the Kunjin virus engineered to produce an Ebola virus protein,” Professor Khromykh said. “Three out of the four, or 75 per cent of the animals that were immunised, were completely protected against the Ebola virus challenge.” More information at http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/03/aus...r-effective-ebola-vaccine |
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Jim Slade
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Tracking down Ebola's hiding places.
In African jungle, scientists seek clues on how wildlife spread the virus to fight the next outbreak in this March 20, 2015 article in the Washington Post. The world was shocked by the most recent epidemic, which killed more than 10,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. But it was hardly the first. Over the past 40 years, Ebola, has exploded sporadically in sub-Saharan Africa, wiping out scores of people. It has also quietly decimated wildlife populations. As many as a third of the world's gorillas have died of the disease. http://wapo.st/197vtsq |
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Hiding in semen too, as was known as possible http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09...sexually-transmitted.html, and now confirmed in a Liberian case. Humanity working hard to keep spreading the disease [And the WHO been holding back warnings for months, though MSF had made the strongest of cases with them of the severity http://revolution-news.com/ebola-outbreak-2014-ignored-early-warnings-msf/]
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