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Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan, Johanna Thomas‐Maude, Apisalome Movono, Akisi Ravono   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lack of Secondary Transmission of Ebola Virus from Healthcare Worker to 238 Contacts, United Kingdom, December 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
In December 2014, Ebola virus disease (EVD) was diagnosed in a healthcare worker in the United Kingdom after the worker returned from an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone. The worker flew on 2 flights during the early stages of disease. Follow-up of
Paul Crook, Alison Smith-Palmer, Helen Maguire, Noel McCarthy, Hilary Kirkbride, Bruce Court, Sanch Kanagarajah, Deborah Turbitt, Syed Ahmed, Paul Cosford, Isabel Oliver   +10 more
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Survey on Visualization of Information Diffusion over Networks

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Information Diffusion (ID) describes how a value (e.g., a pathogen, a rumor, a packet) spreads through an underlying “medium” network of elements (e.g., a social or computer network). Understanding the information diffusion process is essential to predicting trends, controlling misinformation, and enhancing decision‐making as well as ...
T. Baumgartl, M. Sondag, V. Filipov, M. Tuscher, S. Rajendran, S. Miksch, D. Archambault, A. Arleo, T. von Landesberger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ebola Virus Persistence in Semen Ex Vivo

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
On March 20, 2015, a case of Ebola virus disease was identified in Liberia that most likely was transmitted through sexual contact. We assessed the efficiency of detecting Ebola virus in semen samples by molecular diagnostics and the stability of Ebola ...
Robert J. Fischer, Seth D. Judson, Kerri Miazgowicz, Trent Bushmaker, Vincent J. Munster   +4 more
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What do we really fear? The epidemiological characteristics of Ebola and our preparedness [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2014
Ebola virus disease (hereafter Ebola) has a high fatality rate; currently lacks a treatment or vaccine with proven safety and efficacy, and thus many people fear this infection.
Moran Ki
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Frontline Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of the Duty to Care During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Multi‐Method Study in Mozambique

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT COVID‐19 intensified ethical tensions between clinicians' duty to care and self‐protection amid PPE shortages. We explored frontline healthcare professionals' perspectives in Maputo, Mozambique. Semi‐structured interviews with healthcare professionals at four hospitals (April–June 2022) were recorded in Portuguese, transcribed, and ...
Ângela Alface, Graça Salomé, Khátia Munguambe, Troy D. Moon, Esperança Sevene, Elizabeth Heitman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wearable Electronic Monitoring of Vital Signs in Hospitalised Adults: A Nursing Focused Scoping Review of Clinical, Economic and Implementation Outcomes

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To synthesise evidence on wearable devices for continuous vital signs monitoring in adult hospital inpatients, focusing on clinical effectiveness, nursing perspectives, workflow impact, patient experience and resource implications. Design Scoping review.
Sian Myfanwy Shaw, Sophie Bethan Shaw, Gillian Janes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EBOLA

Zdravniški Vestnik, 2014
The ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus disease is by far the largest in  the history of Ebola virus since its initial description in 1976. Apart from dramatic increase of detected cases in the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa, there ...
Tadeja Kotar
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Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): Ebola virus disease

EFSA Journal, 2017
Ebola virus disease has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of Ebola virus disease to be listed, Article 9 for the ...
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), Simon More, Anette Bøtner, Andrew Butterworth, Paolo Calistri, Klaus Depner, Sandra Edwards, Bruno Garin‐Bastuji, Margaret Good, Christian Gortázar Schmidt, Virginie Michel, Miguel Angel Miranda, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Mohan Raj, Liisa Sihvonen, Hans Spoolder, Jan Arend Stegeman, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Antonio Velarde, Preben Willeberg, Christoph Winckler, Francesca Baldinelli, Alessandro Broglia, Beatriz Beltrán Beck, Lisa Kohnle, Joana Morgado, Dominique Bicout   +26 more
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Prevalence of community deaths positive for the Ebola virus that occurred in the city of Conakry [PDF]

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2019
Context and objective: Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a contagious, serious, often fatal disease if left untreated, reaching a lethality rate of 90% during epidemics.
Mamadou SOW, Mory Haïdara, Diao CISSE, Stanislas Djiro, Boushad Boushad, N'Faly Magassouba   +5 more
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