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What did we learn from preparing for cross-border transmission of Ebola virus disease into a complex humanitarian setting – The Republic of South Sudan?

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background Following the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak (2013–2016), WHO developed a preparedness checklist for its member states. This checklist is currently being applied for the first time on a large and systematic scale to prepare for
Olushayo Oluseun Olu, Richard Lako, Joseph Francis Wamala, Patrick Otim Ramadan, Caroline Ryan, Ifeanyi Udenweze, Kibebu Berta, Argata Guracha Guyo, Alex Sokemawu, Michael Tukuru, Henry John Gray, Alex Chimbaru   +11 more
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Ebola virus disease

The Lancet, 2019
Ebolaviruses are pathogenic agents associated with a severe, potentially fatal, systemic disease in man and great apes. Four species of ebolaviruses have been identified in west or equatorial Africa. Once the more virulent forms enter the human population, transmission occurs primarily through contact with infected body fluids and can result in major ...
Denis, Malvy, Anita K, McElroy, Hilde, de Clerck, Stephan, Günther, Johan, van Griensven   +4 more
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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
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Virus specific antibody - based remedies for the urgent prevention and treatment of Ebola virus disease [PDF]

Терапевтический архив, 2019
The Ebola virus (member of Ebolavirus genus Filoviridae family) is the etiologic agent of extremely hazard human disease with high mortality rates (up to 90%). The most important components of spectrum of therapeutics for special prophylactic and current
T E Sizikova, V N Lebedev, S V Borisevich   +2 more
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Persistence of immunological memory as a potential correlate of long-term, vaccine-induced protection against Ebola virus disease in humans

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
IntroductionIn the absence of clinical efficacy data, vaccine protective effect can be extrapolated from animals to humans, using an immunological biomarker in humans that correlates with protection in animals, in a statistical approach called ...
Chelsea McLean, Karin Dijkman, Auguste Gaddah, Babajide Keshinro, Michael Katwere, Macaya Douoguih, Cynthia Robinson, Laura Solforosi, Dominika Czapska-Casey, Liesbeth Dekking, Yvonne Wollmann, Ariane Volkmann, Maria Grazia Pau, Benoit Callendret, Jerry Sadoff, Hanneke Schuitemaker, Roland Zahn, Kerstin Luhn, Jenny Hendriks, Ramon Roozendaal   +19 more
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A comparative computational genomics of Ebola Virus Disease strains: In-silico Insight for Ebola control

Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2018
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), is a national epidemic in Countries affected. It is also a potential global public health pandemic. The menace of the disease outbreak among West and Central African nations, in recent years, has resulted in the death of many ...
Olugbenga Oluwagbemi, Olaitan Awe
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Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks [PDF]

, 2014
Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. Here, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality ratio, and potential to spread from person to person.
House, Thomas; id_orcid, House, Thomas A., Thomas House   +2 more
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An Introduction to Ebola: The Virus and the Disease [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1999
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
C J, Peters, J W, LeDuc
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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

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.
Moses J Soka, MD, Dr. Mary J Choi, MD, April Baller, MRCGP, Stephen White, MSc, Emerson Rogers, BSc, Lawrence J Purpura, MD, Nuha Mahmoud, MD, Christine Wasunna, PhD, Moses Massaquoi, MD, Neetu Abad, PhD, Jomah Kollie, RN, Straker Dweh, Philip K Bemah, MD, Athalia Christie, MIA, Victor Ladele, MBBS, Oneychachi C Subah, BSc, Satish Pillai, MD, Margaret Mugisha, MPH, Jonathan Kpaka, BSc, Stephen Kowalewski, BS, Emilio German, MSHSA, Mark Stenger, MA, Stuart Nichol, PhD, Ute Ströher, PhD, Kristin E Vanderende, PhD, Shauna Mettee Zarecki, MSN, Hugh Henry W Green, MPH, Jeffrey A Bailey, MD, Pierre Rollin, MD, Barbara Marston, MD, Tolbert G Nyenswah, MPH, Alex Gasasira, MBChB, Barbara Knust, DVM, Desmond Williams, MD   +33 more
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Impact of the Ebola virus disease outbreak (2014–2016) on tuberculosis surveillance activities by Guinea’s National Tuberculosis Control Program: a time series analysis

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Most countries in Subsaharan Africa have well-established National Tuberculosis Control Programs with relatively stable routine performances. However, major epidemiological events may result in significant disruptions. In March 2014, the World
Aboubacar Sidiki Magassouba, Boubacar Djelo Diallo, Lansana Mady Camara, Kadiatou Sow, Souleymane Camara, Boubacar Bah, Alpha Oumar Barry, Thierno Hassane Diallo, Aboubacar Camara, Adama Marie Bangoura, Oumou Younoussa Sow   +10 more
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