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Michelle Ramirez

Ebola In Mali - 1 views

Is there a vaccine for Ebola? Health workers in Mali have been given an experimental vaccine against Ebola designed to boost the immunity of those on the frontline of the battle against the diseas...

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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.
    • ximenamartinez
      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.
    • ximenamartinez
      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.
    • ximenamartinez
      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      Tom Frieden Director of CDC says Ebola has no shortcuts and it is not easy to control.
andres mejia

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

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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.
ximenamartinez

WHO | Ebola virus disease - 0 views

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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.
    • ximenamartinez
      ximenamartinez on 24 Oct 14
       
      My current event is about Ebola, the virus outbreak which has now worldwide.
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