Reuters U.S. News sur Twitter : "Everything you need to know about #Ebola explained, in today's Data Dive: How much should you freak out about Ebola? The revelation that doctors in Dallas yesterday diagnosed the first case of Ebola on U.S. soil sent a shudder of fear through the American public.
But how grave is the danger? Historically, Ebola outbreaks have been fairly well contained, but the latest outbreak, which began back on March 22 and has killed more than 3,000 people, was by June already the worst since the virus was discovered in 1976. As this Reuters map shows, the U.S. is one of a number of countries with direct flights from the infected area, which in theory provides ample opportunity for the virus to spread far beyond West Africa. Fortunately, unlike airborne diseases, Ebola can only be spread through contact with bodily fluids—although this means all fluids, including seemingly innocuous liquids like sweat and tears. The method of transmission should limit the virus’s ability to spread quickly without detection.
Dr. Symptoms of Ebola can take between two and 21 days to emerge, so the next couple of weeks will be key. Scaling up support to nationwide Ebola awareness efforts. Ebola on Pinterest. The man who discovered Ebola on why this epidemic spiraled out of control. When Dr.
Peter Piot was a young scientist, in 1976, he received a shiny, blue thermos in his Antwerp lab. It was filled with the blood of a Belgium nun who worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire). The woman had fallen ill with a mysterious sickness, and Piot was asked to screen the blood for yellow fever. "We didn't even imagine the risk we were taking," Piot, now the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wrote in his memoir No Time to Lose. The sample tested negative for yellow fever and a range of other pathogens. Just before his discovery, Piot's professors told him that he had no future in infectious diseases.
Piot is now one of the world's foremost infectious diseases experts, and a former under-secretary general of the United Nations. UNICEF sur Twitter : "#Ebola is not a death sentence. Early treatment means a much better chance of survival. #UNGA... UNICEF sur Twitter : "How does #Ebola spread? Here are a few ways #EbolaResponse #UNGA... Sur Twitter : "QUÈ ÉS EL VIRUS D’#ÈBOLA? ALGUNS FETS I REALITATS. Què és el virus d’Èbola? Alguns fets i realitats. Pin by Dani Valverde on Ebola. Genetic evolution: how the Ebola virus changes and adapts.
The current outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa is unprecedented in size, with nearly 4,800 confirmed or probable cases and more than 2,400 deaths.
People have been infected in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. The World Health Organization declared this outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” in August and estimates it will claim a staggering 20,000 lives within the next six months. Genetic evolution: how the Ebola virus changes and adapts. Witter / ? On Twitter: "Though, there is still much work to do: #Ebola Drug Saves Infected Monkeys, by @Alterwired.
Ebola Drug 'ZMapp' Saves Infected Monkeys, Study Shows. An experimental drug called ZMapp, which contains a cocktail of three antibodies that fight the Ebola virus, has successfully treated 18 monkeys infected with the deadly disease, researchers reported today.
The new results raise hope that the drug may also work in people who are infected in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the researchers say. On the basis of these results in monkeys, several human patients had recently received the latest drug, before the details of the study were published today (Aug. 29) in the journal Nature. "The success was great," co-author Gary Kobinger, chief of special pathogens at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told reporters at a news conference about the study.
On Twitter: "QUÈ ÉS EL VIRUS D’#ÈBOLA? ALGUNS FETS I REALITATS. Què és el virus d’Èbola? Alguns fets i realitats. On Twitter: "Crecimiento demográfico y deforestación, factores clave en la expansión del #Ébola. ¿Qué causas son las culpables de la propagación del ébola en África? MADRID, 7 Sep.
Noticia-cambios-demograficos-sociales-ambientales-culturales-principales-culpables-propagacion-ebola-20140907221123. Blood Transfusions from Survivors Best Way to Fight Ebola. Treating Ebola patients with blood transfusions from survivors of the disease should be the immediate priority among all the experimental therapies under consideration for this outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said Friday after reviewing the status of all the potential experimental therapies and vaccines.
“We agreed that whole-blood therapies and convalescent serum may be used to treat Ebola virus disease and that all efforts must be invested into helping affected countries use them safely,” Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general for health systems and innovation at WHO told reporters. “This is something that would be ready near term.” None of the considered Ebola regimes have yet been adequately tested in humans. More Ebola coverage: Ebola Doctor Reveals How Infected Americans Were Cured Patient Zero Believed to Be Sole Source of Ebola Outbreak U.N. On Twitter: "@WHO: "The situation is bad and we have to prepare for it getting worse" #ebola. Ebola: How bad can it get? 5 September 2014Last updated at 21:25 ET By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website The death toll has passed 2,000 and shows every sign of getting worse This isn't just the worst single Ebola outbreak in history, it has now killed more than all the others combined.
Healthcare workers are visibly struggling, the response to the outbreak has been damned as "lethally inadequate" and the situation is showing signs of getting considerably worse. BBC News (World) on Twitter: ""We have to prepare for it getting worse" - how bad can #ebola outbreak get? Ebola: How bad can it get? Epidemic ethics: four lessons from the current Ebola outbreak. The extent of the current Ebolavirus outbreak in West Africa has belatedly focused the attention of non-governmental organisations, local and Western governments, and international media.
What we haven’t caught up with though, is the extent to which these outbreaks and their devastating effects are predictable and preventable. The spread of Ebola virus occurs because health infrastructure in the region is fragmented, under-resourced, or non-existent. And the therapeutic response to the illness is constrained by failure of markets to drive drug and vaccine development that would help the world’s poorest people.
Resource constraints This is the largest known Ebola virus outbreak, with more than 1,800 cases and 1,000 deaths so far. Apart from its longevity and extent, what distinguishes this outbreak is that, for the first time, there’s a prospect of drugs and vaccines to treat and prevent the disease. A moral failure Ebola fever is not a new disease. Four moves forward. Ebola-virus-disease-west-africa-risk-assessment-27-08-2014.pdf. 324.cat sur Twitter : Metges sense Fronteres alerta que el món està perdent la batalla contra l'#Ebola. Metges sense Fronteres alerta que el món està "perdent la batalla" contra l'Ebola. Witter / ?
WHO: No link between Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, DR Congo. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone Began at a Funeral. An extensive look at the genome of the Ebola virus reveals its behavior, when it arrived in West Africa and how it spread in the region to cause the largest-ever recorded Ebola outbreak.
Researchers sequenced 99 Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone, one of the countries affected by the outbreak that started in the neighboring Guinea, and found that the virus' genome changes quickly, including parts of the genome that are crucial for diagnostic tests to work. "We've uncovered more than 300 genetic clues about what sets this outbreak apart from previous outbreaks," co-author Stephen Gire of Harvard said in a statement. El brote de ébola lo causó un solo salto del virus a personas. El análisis genético de 99 muestras de virus del ébola obtenidos en Sierra Leona y Guinea ha permitido a un equipo internacional de investigadores (hay participantes de Harvard, otros centros de EE UU, Sierra Leona y Nigeria) trazar una trayectoria de la epidemia.
La principal conclusión que ha publicado la revista Science,es que “en contra de lo que ha sucedido en otros brotes”, el actual se debe a un solo contacto entre el reservorio (un animal, probablemente un murciélago) y una persona. Sur Twitter : Epidemic #ethics: four lessons from the current #Ebola outbreak, in @ConversationEDU.
Epidemic ethics: four lessons from the current Ebola outbreak. Epidemic ethics: four lessons from the current Ebola outbreak. Ebola epidemic being driven by deforestation and climate change - Climate Action Programme. The deadly Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been partly caused by deforestation and climate change according to new evidence from experts. Researchers say the logging, road construction and effercts of climate change have brought animals infected with the disease in closer contact with humans. Jonathan Epstein, a veterinary epidemiologist at EcoHealth Alliance, said: “Expansion of human impact can really trigger outbreaks.
Deforestation, building roads, expanding farms into areas that used to be dense forest — all those things increase the opportunity for wild animals to get into contact with livestock and humans.” Why the Ebola outbreak has been underestimated. 04240C84-FDFD-4491-9F955A8BAC8D5CA2_article. Drug Saves Monkeys from Ebola-Like Virus. Drug Saves Monkeys from Ebola-Like Virus. Muere uno de los médicos liberianos tratados con el suero experimental ZMapp. El uso del suero contra el ébola no permite sacar conclusiones. La buena noticia de la recuperación del ébola de los dos cooperantes estadounidenses Ken Brantly y Nancy Writebol ha puesto en el punto de mira de investigadores, organizaciones humanitarias y simples curiosos el papel que haya podido tener el suero experimental que ambos recibieron. Lo desesperado de la situación en África (el número de casos se duplica cada mes) obliga a buscar remedios donde sea. Pero los expertos piden que haya, por lo menos, cautela.
Empezando por el jefe del equipo médico que atendió a los misioneros en el hospital Emory de Atlanta, Bruce Ribner: “Sinceramente, no sabemos si [el suero] les ayudó, si no tuvo el menor impacto o incluso si, teóricamente, pudo retrasar su recuperación”, según informa The New York Times. Why the Ebola outbreak has been underestimated. Faith Healer Helped Spread Ebola In Sierra Leone: Report. As Ebola has traveled through the countries of West Africa killing hundreds in its path in its deadliest outbreak yet, a report has recently emerged suggesting that the spread of the virus in Sierra Leone began with a tribal faith healer’s claims of possessing special powers to cure the disease. A famous herbalist, based in the eastern border village of Sokoma, who had herself contracted the virus helped it cross over from Guinea into Sierra Leone when people from all over the region came to her for a cure, Agence France-Presse, or AFP, reported Wednesday, citing a local doctor.
The virus proliferated when mourners who attended her funeral were in turn infected. "She was claiming to have powers to heal Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment," Mohamed Vandi, a top medical official from the hard-hit district of Kenema, told AFP, adding: "She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected. " Una curandera, responsable de la expansión del ébola de Guinea a Sierra Leona. Una curandera es la responsable de que el ébola saltara en mayo de Guinea a Sierra Leona, según ha informado a AFP un médico sierraleonés. The Ebola virus releases the Vp40 protein The... - Ebola situation in Nigeria and Guinea: encouraging signs. Another Ebola problem: Finding its natural source.
FILE - This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. As of mid-2014, Ebola has caused two dozen outbreaks in Africa since the virus first emerged in 1976. (AP Photo/Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine) A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading Ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks. Ebola has caused two dozen outbreaks in Africa since it first emerged in 1976. It is coming from somewhere—probably bats—but experts agree they need to pinpoint its origins in nature. The Liberian slum where Ebola spreads death among killer virus 'deniers'
"It is where the first victims of Ebola died in Monrovia, and most people who have been affected became so because they did not adhere to the messages of prevention. " Nearly 1,000 people have now died of Ebola across west Africa. While the outbreak started in remote forested inland areas – possibly via fruit bats – New Kru Town is an example of the ease and unpredictability with which it has spread to urban capitals along the coastline, catching health officials off-guard. When some initial cases first appeared in Liberia's northern Lofa County back in March, health officials initially thought they had it under control.
But in June, a resident of a district of New Kru Town known as Carpet Street died, as did several others. According to Dr Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer, three of the victims passed away while they were being sheltered in a local church – a sign of how many some people believe the disease is a curse that can be cured by prayer or witchcraft. Witter / ? Homeopaths certainly help to make the world a more scary place. This is not a hoax! Homeopaths have jumped on the Ebola-bandwagon and are recommending we treat this infection with homeopathy. You don’t believe it? Read for yourself; the following text is taken from a pro-homeopathy website: Your best bet is to find a homeopath to treat yourself or your patient. With Ebola this might not be so feasible, and if you find there is no other assistance available, continue as described below. Ebola: Two dead, 20 others hospitalised over excessive salt consumption.
By Adekunle Aliyu and Marie-Therese Nanlong with Agency report At least two persons have been feared dead with 20 others hospitalised in various hospitals in Plateau State after consuming excessive quantity of salt and bitter kola to prevent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) attack following a viral message on social media that it could prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. In Abuja the Federal Government advised Nigerians to disregard the text message and postings on social media that hot water and salt may be used to prevent Ebola infection and cure infected persons.
The deceased whose identities could not be ascertained at the time of this report were said to be hypertension patients. A resident who worships in the same church with one of the deceased, Atang Itse said he does not know “much about the woman but she worships at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Hwolshe” confirmed she died “this evening as a result of salt she took in the night when everyone was bathing and drinking salt water”.
How Do People Survive Ebola? Ebola is a frightening, highly lethal virus — in the current outbreak in West Africa, about 60 percent of people infected with the pathogen have died. Although in the minority, some people do recover from infection. Doctors don't know for certain who will survive Ebola, and there is no specific treatment or cure for the disease. International Panel Clears Untested Ebola Drugs as Death Toll Hits 1,000. Researchers uncover how Ebola virus disables immune response. Aug 13, Immunology. Ebola. Noticia-canada-revela-posee-propia-vacuna-experimental-contra-ebola-20140812231521. Video by bbcnews.
Plus.google. Què és el virus d’Èbola? Alguns fets i realitats. Què és el virus d’Èbola? Alguns fets i realitats. Communication for Development (C4D) “There is no specific treatment for Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of infected people or animals. Therefore prevention is one of the best ways to contain the virus. Access to timely and accurate life-saving information is hence absolutely crucial. This is where UNICEF is focusing its efforts moving forward,” said UNICEF Representative in Guinea, Dr. Mohamed Ag Ayoy. UNICEF, working closely with WHO, partners and communities, is sharing information on how to prevent the spread of the virus while also promoting care seeking behaviours for those already affected. Ebola drugs still stuck in lab. Health workers carry the body of an Ebola virus victim in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on 25 June 2014. There's little doubt what Erica Ollmann Saphire would do if she had Ebola or knew she had been exposed.
The x-ray crystallographer at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, is leading an international effort to develop a potent mix of monoclonal antibodies against the virus, some of which have already shown promise in animals. Knowing the staggering case fatality rate of this hemorrhagic fever, Ollmann Saphire says she would take the antibodies—never mind that they haven't been tested for safety. “Believe me, I'd run for the freezer and ask for forgiveness instead of permission,” she says.
Ragbag. Treatment. WHO declares escalating Ebola outbreak an international emergency. With cases rapidly mounting in four West African countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) today declared the Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a designation that allows the agency to issue recommendations for travel restrictions but also sends a strong message that more resources need to be mobilized to bring the viral disease under control.
"The outbreak is moving faster than we can control it," WHO director-general Margaret Chan said at a press conference in Geneva this morning. Chan said the declaration of a PHEIC serves as "an urgent call for international solidarity. " The affected countries don't have the resources to battle the disease alone, and neither does her agency.
With three major humanitarian crises on its hands--in Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic--as well as three important disease outbreaks--Ebola, the H7N9 influenza virus, and MERS--WHO is "extremely stretched," she said. West Africa Ebola Outbreak Is Unprecedented, U.S. Says. Western Africa’s raging Ebola outbreak may produce more victims than the combined tally of all previous epidemics of the deadly virus, the head of the U.S.’s disease tracking agency said. Thomas Frieden, the director of the U.S. Diez preguntas sobre el Ébola. Two Americans who contracted Ebola in Africa received an experimental serum. Ebola Virus: 5 Things You Should Know. How Do People Survive Ebola? We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests. The Hunt for Ebola. What Actually Happens When A Person Is Infected With The Ebola Virus.
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