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, 2015 Data Science---Today, everybody and everything produces data. People produce large amounts of data in social networks and in commercial transactions. Medical, corporate, and government databases continue to grow.
Plaat, Aske
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Did Neoliberalizing West African Forests Produce a New Niche for Ebola? [PDF]
, 2015 A recent study introduced a vaccine that controls Ebola Makona, the Zaire ebolavirus variant that has infected 28,000 people in West Africa. We propose that even such successful advances are insufficient for many emergent diseases.
Bergmann, L +7 more
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Remdesivir targets a structurally analogous region of the Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 polymerases
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance Remdesivir is a nucleotide analog prodrug that has been evaluated in humans against acute Ebola virus disease; it also recently received emergency use authorization for treating COVID-19.
Michael K. Lo +17 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Understanding the frequency and socio‐ecological drivers of contacts between humans and non‐human primates (NHPs) is crucial for enhancing coexistence that favours NHP conservation, while limiting negative consequences such as aggressions and cross‐species disease transmission.
Cristina Caparrós‐Vallcorba +3 more
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Historical parallels, Ebola virus disease and cholera: understanding community distrust and social violence with epidemics [PDF]
, 2016 In the three West African countries most affected by the recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, resistance to public health measures contributed to the startling speed and persistence of this epidemic in the region.
Cohn, Samuel, Kutalek, Ruth
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The adoption of the Common African Position (CAP) by the African Union in 2014 marked a transformative shift in Africa's engagement with global development, shaping the post‐2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Despite its significance, the CAP's contributions remain underacknowledged in mainstream narratives. This
Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet +2 more
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Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2019 Community engagement is commonly regarded as a crucial entry point for gaining access and securing trust during humanitarian emergencies. In this article, we present three case studies of community engagement encounters during the West African Ebola ...
Frédéric Le Marcis +4 more
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Precarity, clinical labour and graduation from Ebola clinical research in West Africa
Global Bioethics, 2019 The provision of gifts and payments for healthy volunteer subjects remains an important topic in global health research ethics. This paper provides empirical insights into theoretical debates by documenting participants' perspectives on an Ebola vaccine ...
Arsenii Alenichev, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Did Ebola emerge in West Africa by a policy-driven phase change in agroecology? Ebola's social context [PDF]
, 2014 SCOPUS: no.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics ...
Balan R +22 more
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Exploiting the Reverse Vaccinology Approach to Design Novel Subunit Vaccine against Ebola Virus
medRxiv, 2020 Ebola virus is a highly pathogenic RNA virus that causes haemorrhagic fever in human. With very high mortality rate, Ebola virus is considered as one of the dangerous viruses in the world.
M. Ullah, Bishajit Sarkar, S. Islam
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