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Mental health effects of past and current pandemics on health-care professionals: A narrative review

open access: yesIndian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2023
During the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) crisis, health-care workers (HCWs) across the world are facing a high risk of infection and increased workload. This makes them vulnerable to the psychological effects of the pandemic.
Kamaldeep Sadh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Surveillance Networks of 2014 Ebola Epidemics and Lessons for COVID-19 [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
2014 Ebola outbreaks can offer lessons for the COVOID-19 and the ongoing variant surveillance and the use of multi method approach to detect public health preparedness. We are increasingly seeing a delay and disconnect of the transmission of locally situated information to the hierarchical system for making the overall preparedness and response more ...
arxiv  

A Wake-Up Call: Lessons from Ebola for the World's Health Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The report ranks the world's poorest countries on the state of their public health systems, finding that 28 have weaker defenses in place than Sierra Leone where, alongside Liberia and Guinea, the current Ebola crisis has already claimed more than 9,500 ...
Luisa Hanna   +2 more
core  

Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa: Lessons learned and issues arising from West African countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
© Royal College of Physicians 2015. All rights reserved.The current Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak ravaging three nations in West Africa has affected more than 14,000 persons and killed over 5,000.
Akpalu, AK   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Post‐Ebola psychosocial experiences and coping mechanisms among Ebola survivors: a systematic review

open access: yesTropical medicine & international health, 2019
A myriad of physical and psychosocial sequelae have been reported among Ebola survivors from previous Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks, including the most recent in West Africa.
Peter Bai James   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Molecular Tweezers for Biomimetic Recognition of Carbohydrates

open access: yesChemBioChem, EarlyView.
Molecular tweezers have emerged as effective binders for biomolecules such as lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins, eliciting biological activities. Tweezer molecules, which exploit an open and adaptive binding cavity, can target relatively large guests, such as oligosaccharides and glycans, and often provide some advantages over corresponding ...
Francesco Milanesi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vaccines for epidemic infections and the role of CEPI

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017
The author reviews the foundation of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations and the choices it has made for funding of vaccine development against epidemic diseases.
Stanley A. Plotkin
doaj   +1 more source

Shadowlands and dark corners

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2018
Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) persist in darkness. The pathogenicity of viruses like Lassa, Marburg, and Ebola is partly explained by their ability to survive on surfaces outside their infected hosts, provided they are not exposed to heat ...
Ann H. Kelly, Almudena Marí Sáez
doaj   +1 more source

Mathematical Modelling, Simulation, and Optimal Control of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa [PDF]

open access: yesDiscrete Dyn. Nat. Soc. 2015 (2015), Art. ID 842792, 9 pp, 2015
The Ebola virus is currently one of the most virulent pathogens for humans. The latest major outbreak occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leonne and Liberia in 2014. With the aim of understanding the spread of infection in the affected countries, it is crucial to modelize the virus and simulate it. In this paper, we begin by studying a simple mathematical model
arxiv   +1 more source

Ebola the Enemy: How the U.S. Media Militarized the 2014 Ebola Epidemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The 2014 Ebola outbreak shocked the world. In western Africa, the scale of the tragedy was surprising. But equally surprising was the excessively fearful response of the international public to a disease that most public health experts agreed was ...
Chamness, Sarah
core   +2 more sources

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