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Repurposed Medicines for Viruses With Epidemic or Pandemic Potential: A Horizon Scan. [PDF]
Pharmacol Res PerspectABSTRACT Viruses such as Ebola, Marburg, influenza, mpox, MERS‐CoV, SARS‐CoV, and SARS‐CoV‐2 may be considered pathogens of epidemic or pandemic concern. Developing novel antiviral medicines can be time‐consuming and resource intensive. Repurposing existing medicines with known or potential antiviral activity offers a faster, cost‐effective strategy to
Akinbolade S +5 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Ebola virus infection causes severe hemorrhagic fever, and its mortality rates varied from 25 to 90% in the previous outbreaks. The highly infectious and lethal nature of this virus highlights the need for reliable and sensitive diagnostic methods to ...
Wenwu Yao +5 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever and Pregnancy [PDF]
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1999 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
Mupapa, K. +10 more
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Mystery Disease X Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Narrative Review of Epidemiological Patterns and Response Challenges. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims An unknown disease known as Disease X first surfaced in the Panzi Health Zone, Kwango Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), towards the end of 2024. It mainly affected children under the age of five. The clinical characteristics and of the outbreak are examined in this review.
Faheem MSB +2 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Shock Syndrome-on-a-Chip
iScience, 2020 Summary: Ebola virus, for which we lack effective countermeasures, causes hemorrhagic fever in humans, with significant case fatality rates. Lack of experimental human models for Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a major obstacle that hinders the development of
Abidemi Junaid +9 more
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Emergence of deadly viral haemorrhagic fever disease outbreaks in West Africa
Virulence, 2023 Recent viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) disease outbreaks caused by Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) in West Africa are unique and alarming.
Widaliz Vega-Rodriguez, Hinh Ly
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Ebolavirosis: a 2014 Review for Clinicians
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2014 Ebolavirosis, like Marburgvirosis, are African zoonosis, and for both the primary animal reservoir are bats. It is a typical acute haemorrhagic fever, characterized by a high lethality rate.
Jaime Nina
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International Journal of Infection, 2015 Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an acute hemorrhagic infectious disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). Human is infected via contacts to body fluid, secretions, and discharges from patients or infected animals. Its clinical manifestations include fever, bleeding, and multiple organ lesions. It has a high mortality rate, which is up to 50–90 %.
Yanyan Zhang, Hongjun Li, Ailin Cheng
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Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022 The economy and health of the world’s population have been recurrently affected by infectious diseases since records began in the early 1900s, including large epidemic events that involved diseases such as the ‘Spanish influenza’, West Nile fever, Ebola ...
Vittorio Colizzi +11 more
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Delayed Disease Progression in Cynomolgus Macaques Infected with Ebola Virus Makona Strain
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 In late 2013, the largest documented outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever started in Guinea and has since spread to neighboring countries, resulting in almost 27,000 cases and >11,000 deaths in humans.
Andrea Marzi +5 more
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