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Case fatality rate for Ebola disease, 1976–2022: A meta-analysis of global data

Journal of Infection and Public Health
An up-to-date pooled case fatality rate (CFR) for Ebola disease (EBOD) at the global level is lacking. We abstracted EBOD data from 1976 to 2022 for 16 countries and 42 outbreaks to conduct a meta-analysis.
Jonathan Izudi, Francis Bajunirwe
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: strategies for effective epidemic management, containment and control

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Ebola hemorrhagic fever, caused by the highly virulent RNA virus of the filoviridae family, has become one of the world's most feared pathogens. The virus induces acute fever and death, often associated with hemorrhagic symptoms in up to 90% of infected ...
Gerald Amandu Matua, Dirk Mostert Van der Wal, Rozzano C. Locsin   +2 more
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Assessing Host-Virus Codivergence for Close Relatives of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Infecting African Great Apes [PDF]

, 2016
It has long been hypothesized that polyomaviruses (PyV; family Polyomaviridae) codiverged with their animal hosts. In contrast, recent analyses suggested that codivergence may only marginally influence the evolution of PyV.
Akonkwa, DBM, Akoua-Koffi, C, Bergl, RA, Boesch, C, Calvignac-Spencer, S, Eckardt, W, Ehlers, B, Fruth, B, Gillespie, TR, Gray, M, Hohmann, G, Karhemere, S, Kujirakwinja, D, Langergraber, K, Leendertz, FH, Madinda, NF, Muyembe, J-J, Nishuli, R, Pauly, M, Peeters, M, Petrzelkova, KJ, Robbins, MM, Schubert, G, Stoinski, TS, Todd, A, Wertheim, JO, Wittig, RM, Zuberbuhler, K   +27 more
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Evidence against Zika virus infection of pets and peri-domestic animals in Latin America and Africa [PDF]

, 2022
Decades after its discovery in East Africa, Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged in Brazil in 2013 and infected millions of people during intense urban transmission.
Carneiro, Ianei O., Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel, Dantas-Torres, Filipe, Drexler, Jan Felix, Fischer, Carlo, Franke, Carlos Roberto, Gogarten, Jan F., Kühne, Arne, Lamballerie, Xavier de, Leendertz, Fabian H., Netto, Eduardo Martins, Nowak, Kathrin, Oliveira-Filho, Edmilson F. de, Postigo-Hidalgo, Ignacio, Ribas, Jorge R. L., Schumann, Peggy   +15 more
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The global distribution of Bacillus anthracis and associated anthrax risk to humans, livestock and wildlife. [PDF]

, 2019
Bacillus anthracis is a spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium responsible for anthrax, an acute infection that most significantly affects grazing livestock and wild ungulates, but also poses a threat to human health.
Alexander, Kathleen A, Bagirova, Mehriban, Blackburn, Jason K, Carlson, Colin J, Elkin, Brett T, Epp, Tasha, Fegan, Mark, Getz, Wayne M, Hugh-Jones, Martin E, Kracalik, Ian T, Ross, Noam, Shury, Todd K, Zhang, Wenyi   +12 more
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Ebola in great apes – current knowledge, possibilities for vaccination and the implications for conservation and human health [PDF]

, 2016
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a threat to human health and the survival of African great apes. The disease has led to major population declines of chimpanzees and gorillas, and infected great apes play an important role as sources of human EVD outbreaks ...
Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Bermejo, Bermejo, Boesch, Bradley, Bukreyev, Caillaud, Calvignac-Spencer, Cameron, Campbell, Carne, Chughtai, Cohen, Falzarano, Fedigan, Feldmann, Formenty, Geisbert, Geisbert, Genton, Genton, Georges, Gilardi, Goodall, Gruen, Hastings, Haurez, Henao-Restrepo, Hockings, Hopkin, Huijbregts, Karesh, Karesh, Kondgen, Kouakou, Kuhn, Kuhn, Lahm, Laurance, Lee, Leendertz, Leendertz, Leendertz, Lehmann, Leroy, Leroy, Macfie, Maganga, Maisels, Mari Saez, Marzi, Marzi, Morgan, Muehlenbein, Murthy, N'Goran, Nishida, Nkoghe, Olival, Olson, Olson, Pigott, Qiu, Rabinowitz, Reed, Ringen, Robbins, Rougeron, Rouquet, Ryan, Ryan, Santis, Stanley, Towner, Travis, Travis, Tsuda, Viana, Vigilant, Vogel, Waldman, Walsh, Walsh, Walsh, Warfield, Warren, Wittmann, Wong   +89 more
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Identification of a small molecule inhibitor of Ebolavirus genome replication and transcription using in silico screening. [PDF]

, 2018
Ebola virus (EBOV) causes a severe haemorrhagic fever in humans and has a mortality rate over 50%. With no licensed drug treatments available, EBOV poses a significant threat.
Barr, JN, Easton, V, Edwards, TA, Fishwick, C, Foster, R, Garcia-Dorival, I, Harris, M, McPhillie, M   +7 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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High prevalence and diversity of species D adenoviruses (HAdV-D) in human populations of four Sub-Saharan countries [PDF]

, 2014
. Background: Human adenoviruses of species D (HAdV-D) can be associated with acute respiratory illness, epidemic ...
Akoua-Koffi, C. (Chantal), Anoh, A.E. (Augustin Etile), Calvignac-Spencer, S. (Sébastien), Couacy-Hymann, E. (Emmanuel), Ehlers, B. (Bernhard), Hoppe, E. (Eileen), Karhemere, S. (Stomy), Leendertz, F.H. (Fabian), Leendertz, S.A. (Siv Aina), Mossoun, A. (Arsène), Mugisha, L. (Lawrence), Muyembe, J.-J. (Jean-Jacques), Pascale, S. (Sabwe), Pauly, M. (Maude), Petrzelkova, K. (Klara), Schubert, G. (Grit), Weiss, S. (Sabrina), Wiersma, L.C.M. (Lidewij)   +17 more
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Outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, April–May, 2018: an epidemiological study [PDF]

, 2018
Background On May 8, 2018, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Équateur Province in the northwest of the country.
Bhatia, S, Cori, A, Donnelly, CA, Dorigatti, I, Ferguson, NM, Fitzjohn, RG, Forna, A, Garske, T, Gaythorpe, KAM, Imai, N, Nouvellet, P, The Ebola Outbreak Epidemiology Team   +11 more
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