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ximenamartinez

Ebola epidemic may not end without developing vaccine, scientist warns | World news | T... - 0 views

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  • Ebola epidemic may not end without developing vaccine, scientist warns Professor Peter Piot, one of the scientists who discovered Ebola, claims scale of outbreak has got ‘completely out of hand’
  • The Ebola epidemic, which is out of control in three countries and directly threatening 15 others, may not end until the world has a vaccine against the disease, according to one of the scientists who discovered the virus.
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      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Ebola is out of control and threatens 3 countries and immediately 15 others. 
  • Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it would not have been difficult to contain the outbreak if those on the ground and the UN had acted promptly earlier this year. “Something that is easy to control got completely out of hand,” said Piot, who was part of a team that identified the causes of the first outbreak of Ebola in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1976 and helped bring it to an end.
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      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Peter Piot knew Ebola was out of hand in 1976 when the first Ebola outbreak happened in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
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  • Dr Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in evidence to Congress, said he was confident the outbreak would be checked in the US, but stressed the need to halt the raging west African epidemic. “There are no shortcuts in the control of Ebola and it is not easy to control it. To protect the United States we need to stop it at its source,” he said.
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      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Tom Frieden Director of CDC says Ebola has no shortcuts and it is not easy to control.
ivanna salome

Ebola outbreak: What you need to know now - 0 views

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  • The only death is that of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the USA. He died Wednesday at a Texas hospital.Duncan, 42, arrived in Dallas from Liberia on Sept. 20 and was admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 28. He was diagnosed with the deadly virus two days later.
  • ivanna salome on 10 Oct 14
     
    The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the USA was Thomas Eric Duncan  the 20 of september 
  • ivanna salome on 24 Oct 14
     
    The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the USA was Thomas Eric Duncan  the 20 of september 
andres mejia

El Salvador says nearly 30,000 infected with mosquito-borne chikungunya  - NY... - 0 views

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salvador daily news

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  • El Salvador has detected nearly 30,000 cases of the painful mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya, and has undertaken measures to prevent the disease-carrying mosquitoes breeding, the head of the country's emergency services said on Wednesday.
  • Since June, when the first case was reported, there have been 29,704 people infected by the virus, with 204 of them hospitalized, Jorge Melendez told Reuters. "Having never been in contact with this strain, the Salvadoran population has no defense," Melendez said, adding that nobody has died from the outbreak. Melendez said most of the cases have been reported in the capital city of San Salvador, where authorities have been cleaning rivers and fumigating. Infection with the virus, spread by two mosquito species, typically is not fatal but can cause debilitating symptoms including fever, headache and severe joint pain lasting weeks or months. There is no current treatment and no licensed vaccine to prevent it. The virus showed up for the first time in the Americas late last year. In the United States, locally transmitted infections — as opposed to infections in Americans traveling abroad — have been reported for the first time this year.
Michelle Ramirez

Ebola has never spread to this many countries before - 13 things you need to know about... - 0 views

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  • Ebola first appeared in 1976 during twin outbreaks
  • Michelle Ramirez on 24 Oct 14
     
    Before 2014, Ebola was a disease that was mostly confined to remote African villages. Health officials didnt worry about it going global. Ebola first appeared in 1976 during twin outbreaks. By the time Ebola outbreak was identified in March, it had already spread to all three countries along the border. Nine countries hit with ebola in one year. There's never been an Ebola outbreak like this before.
ximenamartinez

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In 1976, Ebola (named after the Ebola River in Zaire) first emerged in Sudan and Zaire. The first outbreak of Ebola (Ebola-Sudan) infected over 284 people, with a mortality rate of 53%. A few month...

ebola first second outbreak

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camila cruz

Outbreaks | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC - 0 views

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  • Current Outbreaks West Africa The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history and the first Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This outbreak is the first Ebola epidemic the world has ever known.
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      camila cruz on 16 Nov 14
       
      these was somethinng said by the CDC
    • camila cruz
      camila cruz on 16 Nov 14
       
      these is something said by the CDC
gabopro1402

Painful chikungunya virus spreading rapidly in Caribbean | Fox News - 0 views

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  • Hospitals and clinics throughout the Caribbean are seeing thousands of people with the same symptoms, victims of a virus with a long and unfamiliar name that has been spread rapidly by mosquitoes across the islands after the first locally transmitted case was confirmed in December.
  • "It is terrible, I have never in my life gotten such an illness," said Maria Norde, a 66-year-old woman confined to bed at her home on the lush eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. "All my joints are in pain."
  • Outbreaks of the virus have long made people miserable in Africa and Asia.
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  • One thing is certain: The virus has found fertile ground in the Caribbean, where it is rapidly spreading. The Pan American Health Organization reports more than 55,000 suspected and confirmed cases since December throughout the islands.
  • Chikungunya was identified in Africa in 1953 and is found throughout the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere.
  • gabopro1402 on 07 Nov 14
     
    Hospitals and clinics throughout the Caribbean are seeing thousands of people with the same symptoms, victims of a virus with a long and unfamiliar name that has been spread rapidly by mosquitoes across the islands after the first locally transmitted case was confirmed in December. The Caribbean suffering a lot since december lets help them
ximenamartinez

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  • Ebola virus disease Fact sheet N°103Updated September 2014 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 rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests, but the most recent outbreak in west Africa has involved major urban as well as rural areas. Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks. Good outbreak control relies on applying a package of interventions, namely case management, surveillance and contact tracing, a good laboratory service, safe burials and social mobilisation. Early supportive care with rehydration, symptomatic treatment improves survival. There is as yet no licensed treatment proven to neutralise the virus but a range of blood, immunological and drug therapies are under development. There are currently no licensed Ebola vaccines but 2 potential candidates are undergoing evaluation.
  • 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 rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests, but the most recent outbreak in west Africa has involved major urban as well as rural areas.
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      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      My current event is about Ebola, the virus outbreak which has now worldwide.
silvana escobar

New, Untreatable Chikungunya Virus In Caribbean Affects 4,600, Worries Tourism Officials - 1 views

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  • The Aedes Aegypti mosquito spreads the Chikungunya virus between humans. Wikipedia
  • n untreatable mosquito-borne virus is spreading across the Caribbean, and has affected more than 4,600 people in a little over six months, according to a reports from the Pan American Health Organization. Never before seen in the Americas, the disease has officials and businesses worried about the islands' vital tourism industry.
  • The Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne infection similar to Dengue fever. The first cases of this outbreak were reported in December 2013 on the French side of St. Martin, and it has spread to 19 countries across the region, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends that travelers protect themselves from mosquito bites in these areas.
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      silvana escobar on 24 Oct 14
       
      One of the causes of the current event is a virus spread by mosquitos.
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  • “It has not been here before, so people are susceptible, there is no resistance and we have had a lot of the mosquitoes that transmit it,”
  • silvana escobar on 17 Oct 14
     
    The Chikungunya is really similar to Dengue fever. It affected 4,600 people in the Caribbean and is spread by the Adese Aegypti mosquito.
  • silvana escobar on 17 Oct 14
     
    The Chikungunya is really similar to Dengue fever. It affected 4,600 people in the Caribbean and is spread by the Adese Aegypti mosquito.
camila cruz

About Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever| Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC - 0 views

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  • Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains. Ebola can cause disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).
  • Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains. Ebola can cause disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).Ebola is caused by infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. There are five identified Ebola virus species, four of which are known to cause disease in humans: Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus); Sudan virus (Sudan ebolavirus); Taï Forest virus (Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus); and Bundibugyo virus (Bundibugyo ebolavirus). The fifth, Reston virus (Reston ebolavirus), has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans.Ebola viruses are found in several African countries. Ebola was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, outbreaks have appeared sporadically in Africa.The natural reservoir host of Ebola virus remains unknown. However, on the basis of evidence and the nature of similar viruses, researchers believe that the virus is animal-borne and that bats are the most likely reservoir. Four of the five virus strains occur in an animal host native to Africa.
    • camila cruz
      camila cruz on 16 Nov 14
       
      some information about the ebola disease
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