Ebola virus disease: Essential clinical knowledge
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2017 Since its initial outbreak in 1976, Ebola virus disease (EVD) has affected thousands of people, causing severe illness with high mortality rates. In the absence of a vaccine or effective specific treatment, as well as the lack of early diagnostic and ...
Mahmoud Tawfik Khalafallah +3 more
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Ebola and War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Avoiding Failure and Thinking Ahead [PDF]
, 2018 The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is exceptionally dangerous, occurring within active armed conflict and geopolitical volatility, including a million displaced persons.
Cameron, Elizabeth +2 more
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Effective treatment strategies against Ebola virus
Advancements in Life Sciences, 2015 Ebola virus (EBOV), a member of order Mononegavirales is most famous for causing the endemics of hemorrhagic fever in different countries of the world.
Amina Yaqoob +4 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017 We previously developed optimized DNA vaccines against both Lassa fever and Ebola hemorrhagic fever viruses and demonstrated that they were protective individually in guinea pig and nonhuman primate models.
Kathleen A. Cashman +8 more
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Nubia’s mother: being pregnant in the time of experimental vaccines and therapeutics for Ebola
Reproductive Health, 2017 During the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated Ebola-positive pregnant women in its Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs). For pregnant women with confirmed Ebola virus disease, inclusion in clinical vaccine/drug/therapeutic trials ...
Séverine Caluwaerts
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A Yellow Fever Epidemic: A New Global Health Emergency? [PDF]
, 2016 The worst yellow fever epidemic in Angola since 1986 is rapidly spreading, including the capital, Luanda. In Angola, the epidemic began in December 2015 and the laboratory-confirmed outbreak was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on January ...
Gostin, Lawrence O., Lucey, Daniel
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Testing Modeling Assumptions in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak [PDF]
, 2016 The Ebola virus in West Africa has infected almost 30,000 and killed over 11,000 people. Recent models of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have often made assumptions about how the disease spreads, such as uniform transmissibility and homogeneous mixing within ...
Burghardt, Keith +5 more
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Public perceptions of Ebola vaccines and confidence in health services to treat Ebola, malaria, and tuberculosis: Findings from a cross-sectional household survey in Uganda, 2020. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public Health, 2023 Koyuncu A +19 more
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Ebola and the need for restructuring pharmaceutical incentives
Journal of Global Health, 2015 The West African Ebola epidemic has created market demand for the rapid development of vaccines and therapeutics, but the current global patent system does not ensure that the poor will have access to these products.
Abraar Karan, Thomas Pogge
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Safety and Immunogenicity of Heterologous and Homologous 2-Dose Regimens of Adenovirus Serotype 26- and Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Vectored Ebola Vaccines: A Randomized, Controlled Phase 1 Study. [PDF]
J Infect Dis, 2022 Goldstein N +7 more
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