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Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak [PDF]

, 2020
Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested.
Christensen, Darin, Dube, Oeindrila, Haushofer, Johannes, Siddiqi, Bilal, Voors, Maarten   +4 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Case Fatality Rate 90%? [PDF]

Central European Journal of Public Health, 2014
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Widespread SARS‐CoV‐2 Transmission Despite Limited Reported Cases and Clinical Disease: Exploring the Role of Pre‐Existing Humoral Immunity to SARS‐CoV‐2 in Eastern Sierra Leone

Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Since December 2019, SARS‐CoV‐2 has infected over 700 million people and caused > 7 million deaths. While much of the global north was severely affected, sub‐Saharan Africa was relatively spared. Possible reasons include a younger population, fewer comorbidities, and pre‐existing immunity.
Robert J. Samuels, Nell G. Bond, Ibrahim Sumah, Donald S. Grant, Mohamed S. Kamara, Lydia Bazzano, Camilo Fernandez, Rodrigo Borrega, Sruti Chandra, Celia R. Glezer, John S. Schieffelin, Troy D. Moon   +11 more
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Molecular detection of dengue virus in patients suspected of Ebola virus disease in Ghana.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Dengue fever is known to be one of the most common arthropod-borne viral infectious diseases of public health importance. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the ...
Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney, Takaya Hayashi, Samuel Dadzie, Esinam Agbosu, Deborah Pratt, Stephen Nyarko, Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Eiji Ido, Badu Sarkodie, Nobuo Ohta, Shoji Yamaoka   +10 more
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A SOME ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EBOLA VIRUS IN NATURAL FOCIES

Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2018
Ebola virus that composed Ebolavirus genus of Filoviridae Family causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans with high case-fatality rates (up to 90%).
T. E. Sizikova, V. N. Lebedev, N. V. Karulina, O. V. Chukhralya, S. I. Syromyatnikova, S. V. Borisevich   +5 more
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa. [PDF]

, 2020
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus ...
Amara, Emmanuel, Amman, Brian R, Bairoh, Fatmata V, Bakarr, Ibrahim A, Bangura, Abdulai A, Bangura, Camilla, Bangura, Doris, Bangura, James, Belaganahalli, Manjunatha, Bird, Brian H, Chow, Andrew, Conteh, Immah, Coomber, Moinya, Dhanota, Jasjeet, Edwin, Lavalie, Foday, Ibrahim, Gbakima, Aiah A, Gibson, Alexandra, Goldstein, Tracey, Graziano, James, Guetiya Wadoum, Raoul Emeric, Jambai, Amara, Johnny, Jonathan, Kamanda, Emmanuel S, Kamara, Sorie M, Kanu, Marilyn, Kanu, Osman, Kargbo, Dickson, Koroma, Alusine H, Lebbie, Aiah, Lungai, Victor, Mazet, Jonna AK, Mereweather-Thompson, Vanessa, Musa, Jonathan, Nichol, Stuart T, Ontiveros, Victoria, Osborne, Augustus, Patel, Ketan, Robert, Willie, Saidu, Emmanuel, Schuh, Amy J, Sealy, Tara K, Singh, Tushar, Taboy, Celine H, Towner, Jonathan S, Tremeau-Bravard, Alexandre, Turay, Joseph, Turay, Mohamed, Wadsworth, Richard, Williams, Samuel Maxwell Tom   +49 more
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Risk factors for transmission of Ebola or Marburg virus disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2015
Background The Ebola virus disease outbreak that started in Western Africa in 2013 was unprecedented because it spread within densely populated urban environments and affected many thousands of people.
Baron, Bertherat, Blackley, Burke, Christie, De Roo, Faye, Formenty, Hall, Julii Brainard, Katherine Pond, Kelly Edmunds, Kunii, Lee Hooper, Mackay, McElroy, Moreau, Mupere, Nyenswah, Nyenswah, Nyenswah, Olabode, Paul R Hunter, Schibler, Victory, Vladyko, World Health Organization   +26 more
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Re-emerging infectious diseases: Ebola hemorrhagic fever [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, 2014
The spring of 2014 has brought a new calamity, the exotic infectious disease: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, which is caused by a highly contagious and pathogenic virus, transmitted directly by interpersonal contact or indirectly by common usage of objects ...
Lucia E. Ionescu, Gabriela V. Dumitrescu, Viorel Ordeanu   +2 more
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Infection Risk From Humans and Animals in the Anatomy Laboratory: A Scoping Review

Clinical Anatomy, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 346-367, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Whole‐body dissection is a cornerstone of anatomy education. During and following the COVID‐19 pandemic, exposure to infectious agents and other risks of dissection were highlighted. To identify potential risks, one must have the data outlining these risks in specific situations.
Margaret A. McNulty, Elizabeth R. Agosto
wiley   +1 more source

A systematic review and meta-analysis of seroprevalence surveys of ebolavirus infection. [PDF]

, 2017
Asymptomatic ebolavirus infection could greatly influence transmission dynamics, but there is little consensus on how frequently it occurs or even if it exists. This paper summarises the available evidence on seroprevalence of Ebola, Sudan and Bundibugyo
Bower, Hilary, Glynn, Judith R
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