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Sources of Mapping used in Humanitarian Emergencies: The Case of Ebola

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2022
The need to rapidly respond to health emergencies has generated various institutional initiatives to identify their location, through mapping. This study employs a qualitative-exploratory method, based on the daily monitoring of eight Ebola epidemics ...
Barra Martínez José Antonio, Morales-Yago Francisco José, de Lázaro-Torres María Luisa   +2 more
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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
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Plant phenology supports the multi-emergence hypothesis for ebola spillover events [PDF]

, 2017
Ebola virus disease outbreaks in animals (including humans and great apes) start with sporadic host switches from unknown reservoir species. The factors leading to such spillover events are little explored.
Douglas, Noah E., Isokpehi, Raphael D., Johnson, Brianna, McGill, Ayana, Sivasundaram, Seenith, Wollenberg Valero, Katharina C., Wootson, Kiara   +6 more
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Bat portraits in times of pandemic

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
In this Photo Essay, photographs are combined with drawings collected in Burkina Faso in the years following the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak. Portraits of bats are shown.
Michele Cros
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A review of strategies used to retain participants in clinical research during an infectious disease outbreak: The PREVAIL I Ebola vaccine trial experience

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2018
Introduction: This article describes a retrospective review of participant follow-up and retention strategies in the Partnership for Research on the Ebola Virus in Liberia (PREVAIL) I Vaccine Trial.
Sarah Browne, Tarweh Carter, Risa Eckes, Greg Grandits, Melvin Johnson, Irene Moore, Laura McNay   +6 more
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Pre-Ebola virus disease laboratory system and related challenges in Liberia

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2016
Prior to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Liberia, the laboratory system was duplicativefragmented and minimally coordinated. The National Reference Laboratory was conceptualisedto address the existing challenges by promoting the implementation of ...
Stephen B. Kennedy, John B. Dogba, Christine L. Wasunna, Philip Sahr, Candace B. Eastman, Fatorma K. Bolay, Gloria T. Mason, Mark W.S. Kieh   +7 more
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The deployment of mobile diagnostic laboratories for Ebola virus disease diagnostics in Sierra Leone and Guinea

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2021
Background: Ebola virus emerged in West Africa in December 2013. The ease of mobility, porous borders, and lack of public health infrastructure led to the largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak to date.
Lance D. Presser, Jeanette Coffin, Lamine Koivogui, Allan Campbell, Julian Campbell, Fatmata Barrie, Jone Ngobeh, Zein Souma, Samuel Sorie, Doris Harding, Alimou Camara, Pepe Tohonamou, Basala Traore, Frank A. Hamill, Joe Bogan, Sharon Altmann, Casey Ross, Jay Mansheim, Robert Hegerty, Scott Poynter, Scott Shearrer, Carmen Asbun, Brendan Karlstrand, Phil Davis, Jane Alam, David Roberts, Paul D. Stamper, Jean Ndjomou, Nadia Wauquier, Mohamed Koroma, Alhaji Munu, Jason McClintock, Mar Mar, True Burns, Stephen Krcha   +34 more
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The Solodamu Surveys: determining fossil fuel use and sea transport need in a coastal village in Fiji

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015
Domestic sea transport is critical to all aspects of life in the Pacific, providing access to markets and health and education services, as well as enabling cultural and social connectivity. Current sea transport services are entirely dependent upon use
Alison Patricia Newell, Amelia eBola
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Ebola Update [PDF]

Workplace Health & Safety, 2015
The Ebola virus disease first appeared in 1976 in the Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The most recent outbreak occurred in West Africa in March 2014 and quickly spread in surrounding countries. Ebola spreads through direct contact with the body fluids of an infected individual. The incubation period for Ebola is 2 to 21 days.
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Ebola

KYAMC Journal, 2017
Abstract not availableKYAMC Journal Vol.
Joseph R. Masci, Elizabeth Bass
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