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The race for Ebola drugs: pharmaceuticals, security and global health governance [PDF]
The international Ebola response mirrors two broader trends in global health governance: (1) the framing of infectious disease outbreaks as a security threat; and (2) a tendency to respond by providing medicines and vaccines.
Anne Roemer-Mahler +42 more
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Adenovirus-vectored Ebola vaccines
The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa has highlighted the need for the availability of effective vaccines against outbreak pathogens that are suitable for use in frontline workers who risk their own health in the course of caring for those with the disease, and also for members of the community in the affected area.
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Ebola vaccine, therapeutics, and diagnostics
Ebolaviruses, members of the family Filoviridae, cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with human case fatality rates of up to 90%. No effective prophylaxis or treatment for Ebola virus disease (EVD) is yet commercially available.
Wakako, Furuyama, Ayato, Takada
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ABSTRACT Background and Aim Evolutionary principles offer critical insights into pandemic dynamics but have been largely overlooked in contemporary responses to COVID‐19. Relaxed natural selection, increased global mobility, and lifestyle mismatches have contributed to human vulnerability to infectious diseases in modern societies.
Wenpeng You +5 more
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Effects of vaccines in protecting against Ebola virus disease: protocol for a systematic review
Introduction Ebola virus disease is one of the most devastating infectious diseases in the world with up to 90% case fatality observed. There are at least 13 candidate vaccines developed and being tested to prevent the occurrence of the Ebola virus ...
Duduzile Edith Ndwandwe +3 more
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Testing Modeling Assumptions in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak [PDF]
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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ABSTRACT Background and Aims The immediate and long‐term effects of COVID‐19 pandemic on the children go beyond just being a viral infection. A child's mental health and psychological issues like irritability, anxiety, sadness, non‐attentiveness, attention deficit and hyperactive disorder needed evaluation.
Ranjan K. Mohapatra +20 more
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“Beyond the Crisis: Forging a Climate‐Resilient Health System for Bangladesh”
ABSTRACT Background Bangladesh's extreme vulnerability to climate change is fueling public health emergencies, from infectious disease outbreaks to severe mental health burdens. The country's reactive and centralized health system is increasingly unable to cope with these intensifying shocks.
Abdullaha Al Mamun +1 more
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Background: The lack of effective vaccines against Ebola virus initiates a search for new approaches to overcoming this problem. The aim of the study was to design artificial polyepitope T-cell immunogens—candidate DNA vaccines against Ebola virus ...
Sergei I. Bazhan +8 more
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Driving improvements in emerging disease surveillance through locally-relevant capacity strengthening [PDF]
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) threaten the health of people, animals, and crops globally, but our ability to predict their occurrence is limited. Current public health capacity and ability to detect and respond to EIDs is typically weakest in low ...
Cleaveland, Sarah +6 more
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