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Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The Anticolonial Frame and the Rise of Illiberal Populism
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2018 This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights, and sex education, which vilify the term “gender” in public debates and policy documents.
Elżbieta Korolczuk, A. Graff
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo +8 more
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Medicine 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
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The effects of epidemics on capital markets volatility: A case study of Borsa Istanbul [PDF]
CES Working Papers, 2021 This study examines the effects of epidemics like H1N1, MERS and EBOLA on the volatility of capital markets through the case of Borsa Istanbul. The data set covers the period from 1/2/2009 – 8/11/2020 and consists of daily frequency observations.
Fatih GÜZEL, Melek ACAR
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Modernising epidemic science: enabling patient-centred research during epidemics [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Emerging and epidemic infectious disease outbreaks are a significant public health problem and global health security threat. As an outbreak begins, epidemiological investigations and traditional public health responses are generally mounted ...
Horby, Peter W., Rojek, Amanda M.
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The importance of wild meat and freshwater fish for children's nutritional intake in the Congo Basin
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Wild meat and freshwater fish are widely consumed in the Congo Basin, but in some areas, they are at risk of disappearing due to unsustainable hunting and fishing and changes in their habitat. Wild meat is also at risk of being eliminated from local diets due to potential policy changes such as wild meat bans.
Amy Ickowitz +6 more
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Ebola Model and Optimal Control with Vaccination Constraints
, 2017 The Ebola virus disease is a severe viral haemorrhagic fever syndrome caused by Ebola virus. This disease is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person and objects contaminated with virus or infected animals, with a death ...
Area, Ivan +4 more
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Presence and persistence of Ebola or Marburg virus in patients and survivors: A rapid systematic review [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The 2013-15 Ebola outbreak was unprecedented due to sustainedtransmission within urban environments and thousands of survivors. In 2014 the World Health Organization stated that there was insufficient evidence to give definitive guidance ...
Brainard, Julii +4 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 BackgroundThe 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was the largest Ebola epidemic to date. Contact tracing was a core surveillance activity. Challenges with paper-based contact tracing systems include incomplete identification of contacts, delays in ...
L. Danquah +8 more
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