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Preventing future pandemics and epidemics through a North-South collaboration on genomic surveillance in Africa

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022
The economy and health of the world’s population have been recurrently affected by infectious diseases since records began in the early 1900s, including large epidemic events that involved diseases such as the ‘Spanish influenza’, West Nile fever, Ebola ...
Vittorio Colizzi, Claudia Alteri, Stefano D'Amelio, Ibrahim Hassan Garba, Marta Giovanetti, Florence Komurian-Pradel, José Lourenço, Stella Mazeri, Adrian Muwonge, Carlo Federico Perno, Gianluca Russo, Daniel Mukadi-Bamuleka   +11 more
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Delayed Disease Progression in Cynomolgus Macaques Infected with Ebola Virus Makona Strain

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
In late 2013, the largest documented outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever started in Guinea and has since spread to neighboring countries, resulting in almost 27,000 cases and >11,000 deaths in humans.
Andrea Marzi, Friederike Feldmann, Patrick W. Hanley, Dana Scott, Stephan Günther, Heinz Feldmann   +5 more
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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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Awareness of Ebola Virus Disease among the Medical and Non-medical Personnel in Lahore

RADS Journal of Biological Research & Applied Science, 2022
Background: Ebola hemorrhagic fever, also called Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), is caused by a member of Filoviridae family known as Ebola Virus (EBOV).
Waqas Iftikhar, Farah Javed, Maria Nazir, Mussarat Rafiq, Nimra Afzal, Muhammad Babar Khawar   +5 more
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Viewpoint: filovirus haemorrhagic fever outbreaks: much ado about nothing? [PDF]

, 2000
The recent outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo has put the filovirus threat back on the international health agenda.
Boelaert, M, Borchert, M, Colebunders, R, Muyembe-Tamfum, J J, Pirard, P, Sleurs, H, van der Groen, G, Van der Stuyft, P   +7 more
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Presence and persistence of Ebola or Marburg virus in patients and survivors: A rapid systematic review [PDF]

, 2016
Background: The 2013-15 Ebola outbreak was unprecedented due to sustainedtransmission within urban environments and thousands of survivors. In 2014 the World Health Organization stated that there was insufficient evidence to give definitive guidance ...
Brainard, Julii, Edmunds, Kelly, Hooper, Lee, Hunter, Paul, Pond, Katherine   +4 more
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Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak [PDF]

, 2020
Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested.
Christensen, Darin, Dube, Oeindrila, Haushofer, Johannes, Siddiqi, Bilal, Voors, Maarten   +4 more
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Perspectives on West Africa Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak, 2013–2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
The variety of factors that contributed to the initial undetected spread of Ebola virus disease in West Africa during 2013–2016 and the difficulty controlling the outbreak once the etiology was identified highlight priorities for disease prevention ...
Jessica R. Spengler, Elizabeth Ervin, Jonathan S. Towner, Pierre E. Rollin, Stuart T. Nichol   +4 more
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World Health Organization High Priority Pathogens: Ophthalmic Disease Findings and Vision Health Perspectives

Pathogens, 2021
Recent Ebola epidemics, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and emerging infectious disease threats have highlighted the importance of global infectious diseases and responses to public health emergencies.
Sanjana Kuthyar, Casey L. Anthony, Tolulope Fashina, Steven Yeh, Jessica G. Shantha   +4 more
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Proportion of Deaths and Clinical Features in Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Infection, Uganda

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
The first known Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) outbreak caused by Bundibugyo Ebola virus occurred in Bundibugyo District, Uganda, in 2007. Fifty-six cases of EHF were laboratory confirmed.
Adam MacNeil, Eileen C. Farnon, Joseph F. Wamala, Sam Okware, Deborah L. Cannon, Zachary Reed, Jonathan S. Towner, Jordan W. Tappero, Julius Lutwama, Robert Downing, Stuart T. Nichol, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Pierre E. Rollin   +12 more
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