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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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Ebola and Cholera [PDF]

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015
Dear Sir: The description of the clinical course of Ebola virus disease (EVD) provided by Igonoh1 is consistent with mounting evidence indicating that a significant proportion of Ebola mortality is attributable to diarrheal dehydration with severe electrolyte losses.2–6 It is likely that EVD mortality could be reduced below reported levels if ...
Nalin, David R., Hirschhorn, Norbert
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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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Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis? [PDF]

, 2015
Health systems experts from around the world discuss why they were meeting at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research while people were dying of Ebola in West ...
Safreed-Harmon, Kelly, Hyder, Adnan A., Hyder, Adnan A, Hyder, AA, McKee, Martin, Gruskin, S, Mabaso, KM, Mirzoev, T, Matlwa Mabaso, Kopano, Balabanova, Dina, Mirzoev, Tolib, Dina Balabanova, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Mabaso, Kopano Matlwa, Balabanova, D, Tolib Mirzoev, Daniels, K, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Kopano Matlwa Mabaso, Gruskin, Sofia, Karen Daniels, Lazarus, JV, Lazarus, Jeffrey V., Martin McKee, Daniels, Karen, Safreed-Harmon, K, Sofia Gruskin, Adnan A Hyder, McKee, M, Adnan A. Hyder, Lazarus, Jeffrey V   +30 more
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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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Antiviral therapies against Ebola and other emerging viral diseases using existing medicines that block virus entry [PDF]

, 2015
Emerging viral diseases pose a threat to the global population as intervention strategies are mainly limited to basic containment due to the lack of efficacious and approved vaccines and antiviral drugs.
Temperton, Nigel J., Molesti, E, Barclay, W., Barclay, W, Wendy Barclay (686216), Eleonora Molesti, Nigel Temperton (5830610), Temperton, N, Barclay, Wendy, Edward Wright, Long, J., Molesti, E., Edward Wright (4468198), Molesti, Eleonora, Temperton, N., Long, Jason, Wright, E, Jason Long (40805), Wendy Barclay, Eleonora Molesti (686215), Wright, Edward, Wright, E., Nigel Temperton, Long, J, Jason Long   +24 more
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On the coloniality of global public health

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019
The continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have the means.
Eugene T. Richardson
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