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Contemporary disasters may not kill more women than men: an empirical inquiry into sex‐differentiated fatalities in the twenty‐first century

Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the claim that women are disproportionately more likely to die in disasters by reviewing existing data sources and compiling new datasets on sex‐differentiated disaster fatalities in the twenty‐first century. The analysis is structured by disaster type, covering geophysical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological,
Olivier Rubin
wiley   +1 more source

IN VITRO DIAGNOSIS FOR EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE. A COMPARISON OF CURRENT TECHNIQUES AND DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS

Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2019
Ebola virus disease is dangerous viral infection, occurring in the form of hemorrhagic fever, characterized by acute clinical symptoms and high mortality rate due to multiple organ failure.
A. O. Sementsova, V. G. Dedkov, V. A. Ternovoy, E. V. Chub, S. A. Pyankov, A. P. Agafonov, R. A. Maksyutov, V. V. Maleev, A. Yu. Popova   +8 more
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Projections of epidemic transmission and estimation of vaccination impact during an ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak in Northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as of Feb. 25, 2019. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundAs of February 25, 2019, 875 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) were reported in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hoff, Nicole A, Kelly, J Daniel, Lietman, Thomas M, Mossoko, Mathias, Musene, Kamy, Muyembe Tamfum, Jean Jacques, Okitolonda-Wemakoy, Emile, Porco, Travis C, Rimoin, Anne W, Rutherford, George W, Selo, Bernice, Wannier, Rae, Worden, Lee   +12 more
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Beyond Privacy Calculus: Understanding Digital Contact Tracing Acceptance Through Surveillance Drift and Agency Theory

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Digital contact tracing (DCT) has emerged as a promising tool for controlling infectious disease outbreaks, yet its adoption has been hampered by widespread privacy concerns. Prior research studies mainly rely on privacy calculus theory. We extend this view by integrating agency theory to explain how delegating sensitive data to government ...
Félix Joly, Camille Grange, Renaud Legoux   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ebinformatics: Ebola fuzzy informatics systems on the diagnosis, prediction and recommendation of appropriate treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD)

Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2016
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) also known as the Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a very deadly infectious disease to humankind. Therefore, a safer and complementary method of diagnosis is to employ the use of an expert system in order to initiate a platform for ...
Olugbenga Oluwagbemi, Folakemi Oluwagbemi, Oluyemi Abimbola   +2 more
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Optimal Dose and Safety of Intravenous Favipiravir in Hospitalized Patients With COVID‐19: A Dose‐Escalating, Randomized Controlled Phase Ib Study

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 119, Issue 6, Page 1650-1661, June 2026.
AGILE (NCT04746183) is a Phase Ib/IIa platform, evaluating candidates to treat COVID‐19. Candidate Specific Trial 6 evaluated the safety and optimal dose of a novel intravenous formulation of favipiravir in a dose‐escalating, open‐label, randomized, controlled, Bayesian adaptive Phase Ib trial.
Tim Rowland, Richard FitzGerald, Elizabeth Challenger, Laura Dickinson, Laura J. Else, Lauren Walker, Colin Hale, Victoria Shaw, Callum Kelly, Rebecca Lyon, Jennifer Gibney, Karim Dhamani, Margaret Irwin, Yvanne Enever, Michelle Tetlow, William Wood, Helen Reynolds, Justin Chiong, Orod Osanlou, Henry Pertinez, Katie Bullock, William Greenhalf, Andrew Owen, David G. Lalloo, Michael Jacobs, Julian A. Hiscox, Thomas Jaki, Pavel Mozgunov, Geoffrey Saunders, Gareth Griffiths, Saye H. Khoo, Thomas E. Fletcher, on behalf of the AGILE CST‐6 Study Group, Shazaad Ahmad, Christopher J. Edwards, Lesley Dry, Georgie McKenzie, Aleksandra Ros, Michael Stackpoole, Laura Bradley, Karen Jennings‐Wilding, Nicholas Paton, Fred Hayden, Janet Darbyshire, Amy Lucas, Ulrika Lorch, Andrew Freedman, Richard Knight, Steven Julious   +48 more
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A Novel Ebola Virus VP40 Matrix Protein-Based Screening for Identification of Novel Candidate Medical Countermeasures

Viruses, 2020
Filoviruses, such as Ebola virus and Marburg virus, are of significant human health concern. From 2013 to 2016, Ebola virus caused 11,323 fatalities in Western Africa.
Ryan P. Bennett, Courtney L. Finch, Elena N. Postnikova, Ryan A. Stewart, Yingyun Cai, Shuiqing Yu, Janie Liang, Julie Dyall, Jason D. Salter, Harold C. Smith, Jens H. Kuhn   +10 more
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The Ebola pandemic as a threat to international peace and security: a question of collective security or global governance? [PDF]

, 2018
Społeczność międzynarodowa stoi w obliczu rozproszonego i ponadnarodowego zagrożenia epidemiologicznego, którego powaga i rozmiar wymagają obecnie niespotykanego poziomu interwencji.
Diallo, Boubacar Sidi
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Infectious Disease Response in Tanzania: Enhanced Strategies From the 2023 to 2025 Marburg Outbreaks

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Tanzania, which resulted in nine confirmed cases and six deaths (case fatality rate [CFR]: 66.7%), served as a critical stress test of the national health system, revealing significant gaps in outbreak preparedness across surveillance, laboratory capacity, and infection prevention and control ...
Huda Haque, Faraan O. Rahim, Sameer Abbasi, Nam Nguyen, Erick Mahatara, Alison Jang, Ntuli A. Kapologwe   +6 more
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Ebola the Enemy: How the U.S. Media Militarized the 2014 Ebola Epidemic [PDF]

, 2017
The 2014 Ebola outbreak shocked the world. In western Africa, the scale of the tragedy was surprising. But equally surprising was the excessively fearful response of the international public to a disease that most public health experts agreed was ...
Chamness, Sarah
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