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Understanding Ebola Virus Transmission [PDF]
Viruses, 2015 An unprecedented number of Ebola virus infections among healthcare workers and patients have raised questions about our understanding of Ebola virus transmission.
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Prevention of sexual transmission of Ebola in Liberia through a national semen testing and counselling programme for survivors: an analysis of Ebola virus RNA results and behavioural data [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2016 Background: Ebola virus has been detected in semen of Ebola virus disease survivors after recovery. Liberia's Men's Health Screening Program (MHSP) offers Ebola virus disease survivors semen testing for Ebola virus.
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Postmortem Stability of Ebola Virus [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has highlighted questions regarding stability of the virus and detection of RNA from corpses. We used Ebola virus–infected macaques to model humans who died of Ebola virus disease. Viable virus was isolated
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Journal of Vascular Nursing, 2014 Ebola virus disease (Ebola hemorrhagic fever) first appeared in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever involving 284 cases (151 deaths [53%]) centred in Nzara, Sudan (1), and 318 cases (280 deaths [88%]) in Yambuku (near the Ebola River), Democratic Republic of Congo (2).
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Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2015 Nurses are the largest group of health care providers and, therefore, are often at the forefront of epidemics: responding, treating, educating, and coordinating care as needed. But what happens when nurses are afraid of contracting an illness and decide to leave the workplace?
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2020 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission, followed by human-to-human transmission via direct contact or contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated fomites.
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Ebola is a highly pathogenic virus, which in humans reaches a mortality rate above 50%. Due to a lack of laboratories in territories where Ebola viruses are endemic and the limited number of surveillance programmes, tests for the confirmation of suspected cases of Ebola are often performed in Reference Laboratories.
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) has mostly affected economically deprived countries as limited resources adversely affect a country's infrastructure and administration. Probing into the factors that led to the widespread outbreak, setting forth plans to counter EVD cases in developing countries, and devising definitive measures to limit the spread of the ...
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EBOLA VIRUS AND EBOLA VIRUS DISEASES
Journal of Saidu Medical College, Swat, 1969 The name of the Ebola virus which is making theheadlines today originates from the Ebola Riverin the Congo. The first time the disease appearedwas in August 1976. Patient zero was aschoolteacher who had been touring along theEbola River just days before he was identifiedwith what become known as the Ebola virus.This was the beginning of ebola viral ...
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