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Recommendations for dealing with waste contaminated with Ebola virus: a Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points approach [PDF]

, 2016
Objective To assess, within communities experiencing Ebola virus outbreaks, the risks associated with the disposal of human waste and to generate recommendations for mitigating such risks.
Ahmed A Mohamedani, Benedict M Mutua, Brainard, Chepurnov, Diana J Bell, Edward Muchiri, Guy Howard, Harvey Minnigh, Iain Lake, Joseph Matofari, Julii Brainard, Julius M Ndambuki, Katherine Pond, Kelly L Edmunds, Lutendo S Mudau, Maggie Montgomery, Mark D Sobsey, Mark Zeitoun, Mike van der Es, Paul R Hunter, Peter Maes, Roger Few, Samir Dervisevic, Samira Abd Elrahman, Sarah Morter, Tsimbiri P Fedha   +25 more
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Unusual Ebola Virus Chain of Transmission, Conakry, Guinea, 2014–2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
In October 2015, a new case of Ebola virus disease in Guinea was detected. Case investigation, serology, and whole-genome sequencing indicated possible transmission of the virus from an Ebola virus disease survivor to another person and then to the case ...
Mory Keita, Sophie Duraffour, Nicholas J. Loman, Andrew Rambaut, Boubacar Diallo, Nfaly Magassouba, Miles W. Carroll, Joshua Quick, Amadou Sall, Judith R. Glynn, Pierre Formenty, Lorenzo Subissi, Ousmane Faye   +12 more
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Identification of Novel Adjuvants for Ebola Virus-Like Particle Vaccine

Vaccines, 2020
Ebola virus disease is a severe disease, often fatal, with a mortality rate of up to 90%. Presently, effective treatment and safe prevention options for Ebola virus disease are not available. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop control measures
Huapeng Feng, Sumiho Nakatsu, Tiago Jose da Silva Lopes, Masaki Imai, Seiya Yamayoshi, Makoto Yamashita, Tokiko Watanabe, Yoshihiro Kawaoka   +7 more
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Ebola virus disease: past, present and future

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015
Ebola virus disease is one of the most deadly ailments known to mankind due to its high mortality rate (up to 90%) accompanying with the disease. Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an infectious disease of animal that can be transmitted to both human and ...
Harish Rajak, Deepak Kumar Jain, Avineesh Singh, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Anshuman Dixit   +4 more
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Menace of Ebola Virus Disease: A Review

UMYU Journal of Microbiology Research, 2021
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) a deadly disease that affect human and apes like gorilla, chimpanzee antelopes and so on. The causative virus is found mostly in Africa. It had been uncovered first in mid 1970s on the brink of the River of Ebola village. Since
Galadima, M. A., Ali, J., Garba, K.
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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, Hasne, Marie-Pierre, Huang, Junming, Ingram, Matthew, Song, Binyang, Verzijl, Christopher   +5 more
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Early control of viral load by favipiravir promotes survival to Ebola virus challenge and prevents cytokine storm in non-human primates.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Ebola virus has been responsible for two major epidemics over the last several years and there has been a strong effort to find potential treatments that can improve the disease outcome.
Stéphanie Reynard, Emilie Gloaguen, Nicolas Baillet, Vincent Madelain, Jérémie Guedj, Hervé Raoul, Xavier de Lamballerie, Jimmy Mullaert, Sylvain Baize   +8 more
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Clinical presentation, biochemical, and haematological parameters and their association with outcome in patients with Ebola virus disease: an observational cohort study. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Clinical management of Ebola virus disease remains challenging. Routine laboratory analytics are often unavailable in the outbreak setting, and few data exist for the associated haematological and biochemical abnormalities. We aimed to assess
Brooks, Tim, Conteh, Sulaiman, Cummings, Rachael, Fletcher, Tom, Gupta-Wright, Ankur, Heisenberg-Mansaray, Saidu, Houlihan, Catherine, Hunt, Luke, Knott, Victoria, Sheriff, Alpha, Simms, Victoria, Smith, Tom, Tamba, Emmanuel, Tamba, Fayia, Tamba, Kongoneh, Tobin, Shelagh   +15 more
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Ebola Virus Infection [PDF]

Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials, 2014
Ebola virus is one of the cause of viral hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rate. This recent West African outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history. The current Ebola outbreak is caused by Zaire Ebola virus species. Ebola virus disease can be
İlkay BOZKURT, Hakan LEBLEBİCİOĞLU
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The Merits of Malaria Diagnostics during an Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
Malaria is a major public health concern in the countries affected by the Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa. We determined the feasibility of using molecular malaria diagnostics during an Ebola virus disease outbreak and report the incidence of
Emmie de Wit, Darryl Falzarano, Clayton Onyango, Kyle Rosenke, Andrea Marzi, Melvin Ochieng, Bonventure Juma, Robert J. Fischer, Joseph B. Prescott, David Safronetz, Victor Omballa, Collins Owuor, Thomas Hoenen, Allison Groseth, Neeltje van Doremalen, Galina Zemtsova, Joshua Self, Trenton Bushmaker, Kristin McNally, Thomas Rowe, Shannon L. Emery, Friederike Feldmann, Brandi Williamson, Tolbert G. Nyenswah, Allen Grolla, James E. Strong, Gary Kobinger, Ute Stroeher, Mark Rayfield, Fatorma K. Bolay, Kathryn C. Zoon, Jorgen Stassijns, Livia Tampellini, Martin de Smet, Stuart T. Nichol, Barry Fields, Armand Sprecher, Heinz Feldmann, Moses Massaquoi, Vincent J. Munster   +39 more
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