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Containing the threat - don't forget Ebola [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In 2000, Uganda experienced the largest outbreak of Ebola fever ever described.
Geisbert, Jonathan Cohen, Lamunu
core   +4 more sources

Vaccines for epidemic infections and the role of CEPI

open access: yesHuman 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
doaj   +1 more source

Optimizing Pandemic Preparedness and Response Through Health Information Systems: Lessons Learned From Ebola to COVID-19

open access: yesDisaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2020
Strengthening health systems and maintaining essential service delivery during health emergencies response is critical for early detection and diagnosis, prompt treatment, and effective control of pandemics, including the novel coronavirus disease 2019 ...
Arush Lal   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bat portraits in times of pandemic

open access: yesMedicine 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ending Ebola [PDF]

open access: yesImmunity, 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Wave-like spread of Ebola Zaire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In the past decade the Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) has emerged repeatedly into human populations in central Africa and caused massive die-offs of gorillas and chimpanzees.
Leslie A Real   +3 more
core   +5 more sources

Safety and immunogenicity of GamEvac-Combi, a heterologous VSV- and Ad5-vectored Ebola vaccine: An open phase I/II trial in healthy adults in Russia

open access: yesHuman 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
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of host-reservoir transmission of Ebola with spillover potential to humans

open access: yesElectronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, 2018
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a zoonotic borne disease (i.e. disease that is spread from animals to people). Therefore human beings can be infected through direct contact with an infected animal (fruit-eating bat or great ape).
Berge Tsanou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guiding Ebola Patients to Suitable Health Facilities: An SMS-based Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We propose to utilize mobile phone technology as a vehicle for people to report their symptoms and to receive immediate feedback about the health services readily available, and for predicting spatial disease outbreak risk.
Jurdak, Raja, Rana, Rajib, Trad, Mohamad
core   +3 more sources

Impact of Ebola experiences and risk perceptions on mental health in Sierra Leone, July 2015

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2018
Background The mental health impact of the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic has been described among survivors, family members and healthcare workers, but little is known about its impact on the general population of affected countries.
Mohamed F Jalloh   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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