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Vaccines for epidemic infections and the role of CEPI
Human 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
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A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola. [PDF]
, 2015 The real missing link in Ebola control efforts to date may lie in the failure to apply core principles of health promotion: the early, active and sustained engagement of affected communities, their trusted leaders, networks and lay knowledge, to help ...
Banya, Sama S +7 more
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Immunity, 2019 Promising vaccines and results from recent clinical trials of therapeutic antibodies against Ebola virus offer hope for an end to this devastating disease. We asked three investigators in the field to share their views on the remaining challenges and important future research directions as we work toward controlling Ebola virus infection.
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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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Maintaining places of social inclusion : Ebola and the emergency department [PDF]
, 2021 We introduce the concept of places of social inclusion—institutions endowed by a society or a community with material resources, meaning, and values at geographic sites where citizens can access services for specific needs—as taken-for-granted, essential,
Meyer, Alan +3 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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The Ebola virus disease outbreak in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone: a retrospective analysis of the Viral Haemorrhagic Fever surveillance system, July 2014–June 2015 [PDF]
, 2019 In Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak occurred with substantial differences between districts with someone even not affected. To monitor the epidemic, a community event-based surveillance system was set up, collecting data into the ...
Colizzi, Vittorio +7 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017 Ebola hemorrhagic fever, also known as Ebola virus disease or EVD, is one of the most dangerous viral diseases in humans and animals. In this open-label, dose-escalation clinical trial, we assessed the safety, side effects, and immunogenicity of a novel,
I. V. Dolzhikova +35 more
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Analysis of the Ebola with a fractional-order model involving the Caputo-Fabrizio derivative [PDF]
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2023 This paper uses a fractional-order epidemic model to describe the transmission dynamics of the Ebola virus. The proposed model uses the fractional-order derivative in Caputo-Fabrizio’s sense. It calculates the time-independent solutions of the proposed
Nita H Shah, Kapil Chaudhary
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Membrane fusion‐inspired nanomaterials offer transformative potential in diagnostics by mimicking natural fusion processes to achieve highly sensitive and specific detection of disease biomarkers. This review highlights recent advancements in nanomaterial functionalization strategies, signal amplification systems, and stimuli‐responsive fusion designs,
Sojeong Lee +9 more
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