Ebola in western africa. Medical search. Frequent questions

For more on how Ebola outbreaks happen, check out this previous post by Susannah Locke. (vox.com)
Visit the Ebola Outbreak section for information on current Ebola outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
Ecological niche modeling for filoviruses: a risk map for Ebola and Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Uganda. (who.int)
Since then most outbreaks have occurred in central or eastern African countries, according the CDC. (globaljournalist.org)
Filoviruses, which comprise 4 Ebola viruses pathogenic to humans and 1 Marburg virus species, have caused multiple outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever primarily in central and eastern Africa. (cdc.gov)
Thanks to the media and recent outbreaks in Africa, Ebola has been accumulating an infamous reputation. (listverse.com)
Ebola-related advisories currently only exist for specific countries in Western Africa.There is a Level 3 Travel Warning issued for the countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, because of "unprecedented outbreaks of Ebola in those countries. (internationalstudentinsurance.com)
The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led to the mobilization of health and aid workers to contain life-threatening illnesses. (globalissues.org)
Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. (disasterphilanthropy.org)
Thus, it was not a surprise in the summer of 2013 when dengue outbreaks were detected in several sub-Saharan African countries. (cdc.gov)
On the opposite coast of Africa in Mombasa, Kenya, although dengue outbreaks had been reported for decades, the first outbreak to be confirmed with laboratory diagnostics occurred in the early 1980s. (cdc.gov)
this is more than in all strongly supports this assumption and EVD to Nigeria and Senegal and the previous Ebola outbreaks combined. (who.int)
There have been five documented outbreaks of Ebola Reston virus (RESTV) in animals epidemiologically linked to the Philippines. (who.int)
Although a number of other febrile viral infections may produce hemorrhage, only the agents of Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fevers are known to have caused significant outbreaks of disease with person-to-person transmission. (cdc.gov)
Since the emergence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa in 2013 the world has seen a constant surge of EVD outbreaks in Central and Western African countries. (who.int)
This increased reporting of EVD is probably due to enhanced surveillance and diagnostic technologies that were implemented after the West African 2013-2016 epidemic, and strongly suggest that many previous outbreaks have gone undetected. (who.int)
This is the virus that causes a majority of the Ebola outbreaks in West and Central Africa. (cdc.gov)
We've had two confirmed outbreaks of this in western Uganda as well as eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (cdc.gov)

The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa has had a large effect on the culture of most of the West African countries. (wikipedia.org)
Thus early in the Ebola epidemic, the song "White Ebola" was released by a diaspora based group and centers on the general distrust of "outsiders" who may be intentionally infecting people. (wikipedia.org)
The Ebola epidemic of 2014 has forced West Africans to face numerous difficulties on a daily basis regarding their traditional norms and practices. (wikipedia.org)
For the 2013-2016 outbreak in Africa, see Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa . (wikipedia.org)
Thomas Eric Duncan was from Monrovia, Liberia , to date the country hit hardest by the Ebola virus epidemic . (wikipedia.org)
Ebola is a very nasty disease, but it is actually fairly easy to understand mathematically, which is why the disease prevention folks are confident in the best ways to manage this epidemic that otherwise seems to be growing exponentially. (nakedcapitalism.com)
While the epidemic spread to other parts of Africa, Europe, and the United States, the largest impact was in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, the epicenter of the outbreak. (cdc.gov)
Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa endured an Ebola epidemic that was easily the largest and deadliest in history. (vectorsjournal.org)
"The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single zoonotic transmission event to a 2 ‐ year ‐ old boy in Meliandou, Guinea . (vectorsjournal.org)
The harsh ethical truth is the Ebola epidemic happened because few people in the wealthy nations of the world cared enough to do anything about it. (nbcnews.com)
The West African Ebola epidemic (2013-2016) and the 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo negatively impacted on the health of communities and caused major socioeconomic losses. (who.int)
Numerous plant compounds, which also come with a host of additional medicinal benefits outside of their role in the fight against the Ebola virus, have been documented to have extreme promise in the deterrence of yet another virus epidemic. (beforeitsnews.com)
Guinea is one of the countries where Ebola is now an epidemic. (newsbusters.org)
Although the Ebola virus was first diagnosed as an epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone earlier this year it wasn't until a Liberian medical worker, Thomas Eric Duncan, returned from Liberia to the United States with the virus (and subsequently died) in late September that the level of media interest and coverage given to the virus in America exploded. (tabletmag.com)
The current epidemic trend of EVD remains precarious, with infection transmissions continuing to occur in urban communities and in health facilities across countries in western Africa. (who.int)
The emphasis upon "not contagious unless the patient is fully symptomatic" may be helping to sustain this epidemic in Africa. (virology.ws)
However, when a serious medical outbreak or epidemic occurs, like the recent Ebola outbreak, travelers like us need to be aware of our actual risk and how the outbreak will affect our insurance coverage. (internationalstudentinsurance.com)
Did the dispatch of U.S. military units to Liberia to aid in humanitarian relief during the Ebola epidemic help or hinder the process? (utexas.edu)
President Obama justified this decision by arguing that the United States had an ethical obligation as a leader of the global community to address the humanitarian crisis in Liberia as well as a security interest in controlling the epidemic in Africa so that it did not spread to the U.S. and other countries. (utexas.edu)
Ultimately, the Ebola epidemic was brought under control in Liberia and the rest of Western Africa. (utexas.edu)
The United Nations' new pointman on Ebola said Friday he was preparing for a possible flareup of the epidemic in West Africa…" (8/21). (kff.org)
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it had drawn up a draft strategy plan to combat Ebola in West Africa over the next six to nine months, implying that it does not expect to halt the epidemic this year…" (Nebehay, 8/22). (kff.org)
Efforts to curb the deadly Ebola epidemic that swept across four West African states are being undermined by a lack of leadership and emergency management skills, the international head of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday…" (Nebehay, 8/21). (kff.org)

I am of the conviction," Cuban president Raul Castro said in his opening statement, "that if this threat is not stopped and resolved in West Africa, with an efficient international response backed by sufficient resources, coordinated by the World Health Organization of the United Nations, it could become one of the gravest pandemics in human history. (venezuelanalysis.com)
Since May 2018, Merck has donated and shipped more than 245,000 1.0mL investigational V920 Ebola vaccine doses to the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to requests by the WHO. (merck.com)
The largest Ebola outbreak in history was first reported in March 2014 and declared over by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 10, 2016. (cdc.gov)
Now, it is true that Doctors Without Borders has called Ebola "totally out of control" and the World Health Organization calls it the worst outbreak ever of the disease. (nbcnews.com)
This generalized reporting continues unabated despite the fact there have been-according to the World Health Organization-approximately 4,500 deaths from Ebola: A minuscule portion of the continent's population. (tabletmag.com)
The latest Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak in the history of the disease. (globalissues.org)
In Uganda, a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus has been stopped in its tracks and declared officially over, the UN World Health Organization ( WHO ) said on Wednesday. (globalissues.org)
Three candidate Ebola vaccines for a proposed clinical trial in Uganda should be shipped to the country next week, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday. (globalissues.org)
The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to support Uganda as the Government there responds to a deadly Ebola outbreak, agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday in his weekly press conference on global health challenges. (globalissues.org)
The World Health Organization announced in June 2016 that nearly 50 days had passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola tested negative. (disasterphilanthropy.org)
The newly appointed United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola today began his visit to countries affected by the deadly disease, as the head of the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for 'massive, coordinated and targeted assistance' in the months ahead, saying 'a humane world cannot let the people of West Africa suffer on such an extraordinary scale'…" (8/21). (kff.org)
The World Health Organization (WHO) will hold a meeting of experts in early September, who will discuss the possible methods of treating [the] Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization said in a statement…" (8/22). (kff.org)
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it would convene talks early next month on potential treatments and vaccines to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa…" (8/22). (kff.org)
The World Health Organization was beyond East and Central Africa ( 6 ). (who.int)

Since 1976, Ebola has plagued Central and (most recently) Western Africa. (vox.com)
Ebola in humans was first identified in 1976 and was found to affect populations in central and western Africa. (pjmedia.com)
The virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. (globaljournalist.org)
Formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, it was discovered in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (listverse.com)
People first became aware of the existence of Ebola in July 1976 when it emerged in the southern regions of Sudan. (herbs2000.com)
During a number of months of rage during the latter part of 1976, the virus invaded people in as many as 50 villages claiming 325 lives of the 358 persons infected by Ebola. (herbs2000.com)
It has been found that during its outbreak in Sudan and Zaire in 1976, the strains of Ebola did not spread owing to people meeting casually on the streets or visiting the same eateries. (herbs2000.com)
Patient with Ebola hemorrhagic fever during 1976 outbreak in Zaire demonstrating palatal petechiae and hemorrhage. (medscape.com)

There is a lot of growing concern that this terrible hemorrhagic fever EBOLA will spread across the world from the urban centers of the Western African nations hardest hit, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. (hogueprophecy.com)
A 2011 research paper in the journal Archives of Virology entitled , "Inhibition of Lassa virus and Ebola virus infection in host cells treated with the kinase inhibitors genistein and tyrphostin," details the pair's therapeutic role in reducing the severity of hemorrhagic fever. (beforeitsnews.com)
The authors, which include researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch, also reference a previous animal study which shows genistein's ability to reduce harm from Pichinde ́virus (PICV), an Ebola-like virus that also causes hemorrhagic fever. (beforeitsnews.com)
The Atlas Travel policy offered by HCCMIS provides travel medical insurance and emergency travel assistance to members traveling outside of their home country and covers illnesses contracted while abroad, including but not limited to, the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) or Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF). (internationalstudentinsurance.com)
Like Marburg and Ebola, Lassa fever is also a hemorrhagic fever caused by a deadly viral infection. (herbs2000.com)
Hepatic involvement varies with the infecting organism and is at times seen with Ebola, Marburg, RVF, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), and yellow fever. (medscape.com)

Ebola virus disease in the U.S. (wikipedia.org)
Four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") occurred in the United States in 2014. (wikipedia.org)
On September 30, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that Thomas Eric Duncan , a 45-year-old Liberian national visiting the United States from Liberia , had been diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, Texas . (wikipedia.org)
On September 15, 2014, the family of Marthalene Williams, who later died of Ebola virus disease , could not call an ambulance to transfer the pregnant Williams to a hospital. (wikipedia.org)
KENILWORTH, N.J.-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) and granted priority review for Merck's investigational Ebola vaccine (V920), under review for the prevention of disease caused by the Ebola Zaire virus. (merck.com)
A few hours ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the confirmation of the first U.S. diagnosed case of Ebola in Dallas. (amr.net)
The Ebola outbreak provides a good opportunity to review and recommit to the basic principles of disease transmission and protection. (amr.net)
In fact the U.S. is so sure that it can control Ebola that two people with the disease are coming back to Atlanta for treatment at Emory University Hospital. (nbcnews.com)
Efforts to contain Ebola in West Africa suffer from a lack of effective tools to treat and prevent the disease, although several are in development. (technologyreview.com)
The vaccine works by inserting two Ebola genes into a cell that helps to generate an immune response, allowing the body to recognize and fight the disease in the future. (technologyreview.com)
It's not going to be all of Africa," says Stephen Calderwood, chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital. (technologyreview.com)
This spring, Craig Manning of the Centers for Disease Control was in the West African country of Guinea, responding to the country's recent outbreak of the Ebola virus. (globaljournalist.org)
That may be because Ebola has a reputation for being a particularly fearsome disease. (globaljournalist.org)
In the most recent outbreak, the worst since 2007, there were at least 281 suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from late March through May 28, with at least 200 succumbing to the disease, according to Reuters . (globaljournalist.org)
It's very hard to tell whether you're even dealing with an Ebola case or some other disease that presents like Ebola," said Patrick Pithua, a professor of veterinary epidemiology at the University of Missouri. (globaljournalist.org)
However, the media's handling of the virus, its origins, and its propagation (which some in the media have suggested comes from people eating wildlife , even though this has not been scientifically proven) has reverted to an age-old reliance on lazy stereotypes, generalizations, and misleading information that once again disseminate a view of the African continent's 1 billion people as wild-animal-eating, jungle-roaming, primitive, disease-carrying "others. (tabletmag.com)
It's great news that the forests of Western Equatorial Africa still contain hundreds of thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees, but we're also concerned that so many of these primates are outside of protected areas and vulnerable to poachers, disease, and habitat degradation and loss," said lead author Samantha Strindberg of WCS. (newswise.com)
The current Ebola outbreak is by far the largest and the first multi-country outbreak of the disease ever reported in its 38-year history. (who.int)
I'm puzzled why everyone is so convinced that Ebola Virus Disease is not transmittable during its subclinical/inapparent infection phase. (virology.ws)
2) This is how Ebola becomes "airborne" even when it is not traditionally categorized as an airborne disease. (naturalnews.com)
During one of the most devastating infectious disease wipeouts in history, a Chinese Medicine doctor named Sun Simiao conducted pioneering medical research that predated modern western medicine by millennia. (naturalnews.com)
Ebola IS an absolutely horrific disease that kills about half of the people it infects. (skepchick.org)
Background: Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic disease endemic to west Africa. (harvard.edu)
While both viruses - Ebola and Marburg, have the aptitude to communicate a disease as well as kill monkeys that breathe in the virus, they cannot be easily transmitted taking help of the air or atmosphere. (herbs2000.com)
In March 2014, the first cases of Ebola virus disease were notified in Guinea (West Africa). (cdc.gov)
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a severe, acute viral illness, usually characterized by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. (disasterphilanthropy.org)
The latter was in a village situated near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. (disasterphilanthropy.org)
When Liberia enters the news it is usually in the context of civil war, economic crisis, poverty or a disease outbreak such as the recent emergence of Ebola in West Africa. (sciencedaily.com)
Hospitals battling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa desperately need more staff, as local doctors leave their posts and foreign doctors are reluctant to come forward, medical experts said during an online debate on the disease…" (Whiting, 8/21). (kff.org)
But malaria is far from the only mosquito-borne disease in Africa. (cdc.gov)
Recent studies have revealed that dengue, a disease that is well recognized in Asia and the Americas, may be commonly misdiagnosed as malaria in Africa. (cdc.gov)
Learn how clinical and public health laboratories collaborate with healthcare teams to provide the testing required to diagnose and treat hospital patients under investigation (PUI) for Ebola virus disease. (cdc.gov)
Persistence of Ebola virus in semen among Ebola virus disease survivors in Sierra Leone: A cohort study of frequency, duration, and risk factors. (cdc.gov)
The rate of semen persistence over time, including the average duration of persistence among Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors, is not well known. (cdc.gov)
The exponential increase in cases outbreak of the disease reported in its the transmission remains uncontrolled from this EVD outbreak and its un- 38-year history, it is also the first ever at the epicentre of the outbreak, Ebola precedented size, pace and scale led multi-country outbreak ( 2,6 ). (who.int)
A paucity of scientific evidence exists on how to best treat pregnant or breastfeeding women with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD). (bvsalud.org)
Rather, it is now clear that Ebola virus can persist for several years in immune privileged body sites of disease survivors, and that human-to-human transmission from a survivor to a naïve individual can ignite a new outbreak. (who.int)
So first, just with some Ebola terminology, Ebola disease is an umbrella term we use to describe the clinical disease due to infection with any of the six viruses within the genus Ebola virus. (cdc.gov)
And the last three are Tai forest virus, species Tai forest ebolavirus, Reston virus, species Reston ebolavirus, and Bombali virus, which is a newly discovered Ebola virus and not yet identified to cause human disease, but this is species Bombali ebolavirus. (cdc.gov)
Continuing with this, Ebola virus disease is a term we use to describe the clinical disease due to infection with Ebola virus, species Zaire ebolavirus, as I just mentioned on the last slide. (cdc.gov)
So that suspect case of Ebola disease or suspect case of Ebola disease definition is a person with signs and symptoms compatible with Ebola disease and an epidemiological risk factor within 21 days before the onset of symptoms. (cdc.gov)
The image below depicts palatal petechiae and hemorrhage in a patient with Ebola virus disease (EVD). (medscape.com)
Filovirus disease - Ebola fever. (medscape.com)

Our objective was to provide a comprehensive overview of the impact of the Ebola outbreak on population health in the three most affected countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. (nih.gov)
The following map (and accompanying tables) illustrate the number of confirmed cases found by prefecture in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia as of March 27, 2016, when WHO terminated the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (cdc.gov)
And it is - in Western Africa in countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast. (nbcnews.com)
Six countries in west Africa are affected: Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal and are now reporting laboratory-confirmed cases. (who.int)
The United Kingdom took charge of relief efforts in Sierra Leone, France in Guinea, and the United States in Liberia, a state founded in the 19th century by former African-American slaves. (utexas.edu)
This photograph was captured in 2015, in the capital city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, during the country's Ebola outbreak. (cdc.gov)

These antibodies are designed to mimic the antibodies the human body naturally produces as part of an immune response that's typically disabled by the Ebola virus. (technologyreview.com)

Even when severe, they overlap with many diseases that are common in West Africa, including malaria, cholera, and Lassa fever . (vectorsjournal.org)
BACKGROUND: An alarming rise in reported Lassa fever cases continues in west Africa. (cdc.gov)
Lassa, Marburg, and Ebola viruses are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, and the differential diagnosis of VHF will most often be made for illness in travelers to this region. (cdc.gov)
Although the rodent reservoir exists across wide areas of Africa, Lassa virus appears to be restricted to the continent's western part. (cdc.gov)
On the basis of historical information, as well as serologic testing, sporadic Lassa infection may have occurred also in Guinea, Senegal, Mali, and the Central African Republic (6,7). (cdc.gov)
In West Africa, Lassa fever is spread to humans when infected rodents are captured for consumption, as well as by person-to-person exposures. (medscape.com)

Although parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported cases, they have been declared unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa. (vox.com)
Two health workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres comfort a 43-year-old Congolese patient, confirmed to have Ebola, in Kampungu, Democratic Republic of Congo, during a 2007 outbreak in the central African nation. (globaljournalist.org)
The Democratic Republic of Congo is currently experiencing the second largest Ebola outbreak in history, following a 2014-2016 outbreak in western Africa that had an estimated 28,000 cases. (bvsalud.org)

Africa is home to a wide variety of primates, including a large population of chimpanzees in Guinea and western lowland gorillas in Central Africa. (listverse.com)
In a past blog I described the initial findings of a dengue outbreak in Luanda, Angola, in west-central Africa outbreak: dengue cases were initially identified with a rapid diagnostic test and confirmatory diagnostic testing and molecular epidemiologic analysis performed as CDC demonstrated that the virus had actually been circulating in the region for at least 45 years. (cdc.gov)

he had just returned from working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea , a country in West Africa. (wikipedia.org)
The UK Independent led with " Ebola outbreak: Two-year-old boy from tiny Guinea village was first to be infected after playing with bats in tree stump . (vectorsjournal.org)
Issa said it was "Guyana," a South American country, whereas in fact it was Guinea, a West African one. (newsbusters.org)
Africa, western Africa, is where the nation of Guinea is. (newsbusters.org)
So to be clear, Guinea is in Africa. (newsbusters.org)
With an estimated population of more than 7000 individuals, Liberia now officially holds the second largest population of West African chimpanzees after Guinea. (sciencedaily.com)
A number of countries in western Africa culation of Ebola virus among humans suggested of close to 20 000 cases by are currently affected - Guinea, Liberia, is uncommon. (who.int)

In Liberia, Ebola has wiped out entire families, leaving perhaps one survivor to recount stories of how they simply could not be hands off while their loved ones were sick in bed, because of their culture of touch, hold, hug and kiss. (wikipedia.org)
A burial team, which was sent in to collect the bodies of suspected Ebola victims from West Point in Liberia, was blocked by several hundred residents chanting: "No Ebola in West Point. (wikipedia.org)
It has now been roughly eleven weeks since U.S. medical missionary Dr. Kent Brantly was diagnosed with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia. (pjmedia.com)
Liberia is home to the second largest chimpanzee population in West Africa. (sciencedaily.com)
Even more excitingly for conservation, due to its relatively wide and continuous distribution within the country, the chimpanzee population of Liberia is also probably one of most viable chimpanzee populations in West Africa, making it a regional conservation priority. (sciencedaily.com)

Therefore, it is difficult for West Africans to adapt to foreign medical practices. (wikipedia.org)
For instance, West Africans have had the tendency to remain close to their sick family members to nurse them during illness for centuries. (wikipedia.org)
Let's take for example articles such as one that featured recently in the Washington Post , the headline of which was "Why West Africans keep hunting and eating bush meat despite Ebola concerns. (tabletmag.com)
The reality is that not only do many West Africans not eat bush meat-defined as terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians harvested for food-but that many Africans in general-whether from south, east, north or west-do not eat bush meat. (tabletmag.com)

News Article: "4 Natural Ways to Fight Ebola. (beforeitsnews.com)
As of the end of 2015, $1.44 billion of the money given to the Department of Health and Human Services to fight Ebola remained unobligated, Rogers wrote in a letter to the White House last week. (courthousenews.com)

And these six viruses are Ebola virus, species Zaire Ebola virus. (cdc.gov)

What makes Ebola so dangerous is that the virus is not naturally found in humans, so our immune systems have not evolved to be able to defend against an infection, Pithua said. (globaljournalist.org)
Peñas J, Miranda ME, de los Reyes VC, Sucaldito MN, Magpantay R. Risk assessment of Ebola Reston virus in humans in the Philippines. (who.int)
This ubiquitous African rodent lives in close association with humans and is commonly found in and around houses in rural areas. (cdc.gov)

In late 2014, when the Ebola outbreak in western Africa was at its peak, Merck licensed V920 from NewLink Genetics. (merck.com)
Over the past several weeks the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa has frequented the headlines. (amr.net)
This is a listening task on a video from the CNN on the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. (busyteacher.org)
An OpenStreetMap interface for the Ebola outbreak in western Africa, 2014. (usgs.gov)
Among the various case studies, the Ebola outbreak in western Africa was a prime example. (qrcodepress.com)

Merck has worked with government partners and the global health community to accelerate development of our investigational V920 Ebola vaccine. (merck.com)
In parallel to its regulatory efforts, Merck has remained steadfast in its commitment to scale-up the number of investigational V920 Ebola vaccine doses being produced to help international public health officials and government authorities meet ongoing, unpredictable, and evolving outbreak response needs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring countries. (merck.com)
In addition, in June 2019, Merck started executing an updated replenishment strategy to increase investigational V920 Ebola vaccine supply, based on ongoing consultations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, WHO and Gavi (the Vaccine Alliance). (merck.com)
We continue to be proud and humbled to provide our investigational V920 Ebola vaccine as an additional tool in support of the comprehensive public health response efforts against the current Ebola outbreak. (merck.com)
In parallel, and in close collaboration with FDA and EMA, submissions have also been made to the WHO to achieve prequalification status and to health authority representatives of the African Vaccine Regulatory Forum (AVAREF). (merck.com)
V920, Merck's investigational Ebola Zaire vaccine, was initially engineered by scientists from the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory and subsequently licensed to a subsidiary of NewLink Genetics Corporation. (merck.com)
But as the world waits for Bill & Melinda Gates to unveil their latest Ebola vaccine news to the world, there is simply no mention of these powerful substances that may hold promise (and be extremely inexpensive to get a hold of international) in the fight for our immunity. (beforeitsnews.com)
Several Ebola vaccine candidates are also in development, including one developed by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Vaccine Research Center that has shown promise in monkeys and has been fast-tracked for human testing this fall. (technologyreview.com)
You develop vaccines, you are as well working with the Ebola vaccine as well. (21stcenturywire.com)
So we were interacting with several different vaccine companies that were developing Ebola vaccines, because it was important for GAVI to make the right choice, the right vaccine in order for this vaccine to be rolled out in the Western African countries that had this severe Ebola crisis back a number of years ago. (21stcenturywire.com)

A MEDLINE search using PubMed was conducted using the search terms "Ebola" and "Reston" with search dates between 1 November 1989 and 1 November 2016. (who.int)

Ebola Reston virus (RESTV) is one of the six virus species of the Ebola virus in the family Filoviridae. (who.int)

Public health experts and the Obama administration opposed instituting a travel ban on Ebola endemic areas, stating that it would be ineffective and would paradoxically worsen the situation. (wikipedia.org)

The infectious agent that caused the outbreak was a filovirus, the Zaire species of Ebola virus (sometimes called ZEBOV and sometimes just Ebola), which has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent ( Feldmann and Geisbert, 2011 ). (vectorsjournal.org)

No EBOV RNA was detected in any of the PCR-tested bat samples [and] attempts to demonstrate the presence of IgG antibodies against Ebola viruses were inconclusive (data not shown). (vectorsjournal.org)
Researches have shown that the Ebola viruses are closely related to Marburg. (herbs2000.com)
Both Marburg and the Ebola viruses possessed analogous genetic substances - a solitary filament of RNA (ribonucleic acid). (herbs2000.com)
Still more African countries are known to have the Aedes mosquitos that transmit the 4 dengue viruses. (cdc.gov)

Hundreds of people were tested or monitored for potential Ebola virus infection, [16] but the two nurses were the only confirmed cases of locally transmitted Ebola. (wikipedia.org)
Manning explained that shaking his hand would not put the director at risk of an Ebola infection because there was no likelihood that he was infected, and the two finally shook. (globaljournalist.org)
An Ebola infection can be difficult to diagnose in the early days. (globaljournalist.org)
An Ebola infection only requires a single viral organism to enter your body, usually through your mouth or eyes. (naturalnews.com)
A person who rubs their eyes with their finger can instantly cause an Ebola infection of a single virus was resting on their finger. (naturalnews.com)
I'd like to welcome you to today's COCA Call, Ebola Clinical Presentation: Evaluation, and Infection Prevention. (cdc.gov)

If the aim of the request is to mount as rapid a response as possible, it is clear to us that the most expeditious way to identify the needed funding is to maximize the use of unobligated funds previously provided for Ebola response, prevention, and preparedness in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015," the letter states. (courthousenews.com)
If you or anyone has any concerns, please visit the University's Ebola Preparedness site or the New York City Department of Health Ebola update page. (virology.ws)

Call Center Information:AMR Communications Centers are working closely with our partners at the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch to prepare for modified caller queries regarding Ebola. (amr.net)
Only 28 Ebola patients were treated in the 11 treatment centers built by the military. (utexas.edu)

The meeting, which lasted three hours and whose sole topic was virus prevention, produced a 23-point joint declaration which includes plans for increased vigilance at borders, ports, and airports, as well as the creation of a regional team of medical experts, and an educational campaign to inform people how to prevent contraction and how to handle a person who contracts ebola. (venezuelanalysis.com)
To understand Ebola prevention, you first need to understand how it spreads. (naturalnews.com)

Most travelers to Africa know to protect themselves from malaria. (cdc.gov)
In addition, travelers returning home with dengue had been detected after visiting more than 30 African countries. (cdc.gov)

Ebola is difficult to study because it occurs sporadically within small populations, compared to diseases like malaria or HIV. (technologyreview.com)
Fewer malaria cases will be treated] because some health clinics have closed as a result of Ebola - out of panic, or because the virus has taken a toll on staff - and partly because families are afraid to come to clinics because they think they might catch Ebola there. (kff.org)

Thirty-eight years later, with only a relative handful of exceptions, it is still afflicting populations in central and western Africa. (pjmedia.com)
Ebola has affected relatively small populations in Africa since it was discovered in the 1970s. (technologyreview.com)
Liberia's status as a biodiversity hotspot and the fact that it is home to some of the last viable and threatened wildlife populations in West Africa has received little media attention in the past. (sciencedaily.com)

Shortly after rumblings of Obama's request moved through Washington earlier this month, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, called on the administration to use funds left over from the fight against Ebola in its efforts against Zika. (courthousenews.com)
This page summarizes possible scenarios for introduction of the virus in the Region and the key public health actions that countries should urgently implement to accelerate national efforts for early detection of Ebola introduction in their country and to rapidly respond in order to limit local transmission. (who.int)
2. Should the U.K., France, and the U.S. have concentrated their relief efforts along historical colonial lines during the Ebola outbreak? (utexas.edu)

As you may have seen in the media, Dr. Craig Spencer is being treated for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. (virology.ws)

BACKGROUND: Sexual transmission chains of Ebola virus (EBOV) have been verified and linked to EBOV RNA persistence in semen, post-recovery. (cdc.gov)

This article is about Ebola virus cases in the United States starting in 2014. (wikipedia.org)
Map of Ebola cases and infrastructure throughout the U.S. (wikipedia.org)
There have been no new Ebola cases confirmed in the U.S. since Oct. 2014. (amr.net)
All but one of the less than a half dozen known cases to appear in the Western Hemisphere were brought here intentionally under conditions of space mission level isolation. (pjmedia.com)
New cases of monkeypox were reported in the U.K., Spain, Portugal, Italy and the U.S. this week, a rare occurrence for a virus largely confined to central and western Africa. (berkeley.edu)
America and many South American and European countries, but it is still the source of most human rabies cases in other areas, primarily in many African and Asian countries. (cdc.gov)
The number of new Ebola cases peaked at 635 the week after President Obama announced the military intervention, but dropped to just over 100 by the time the first medical unit was opened. (utexas.edu)
By the time the additional units were operational, Ebola cases had dwindled to less than 50. (utexas.edu)
First, since 1960 at least 15 countries in Africa had reported locally-acquired dengue cases. (cdc.gov)
Even though the risk of travel associated Ebola cases in US is low, CDC recommends that clinical laboratories review information on specimen collection, handling, and transporting infectious substances safely. (cdc.gov)
WHO on 8 August 2014 to declare recording cases for almost 10 months, it could then become a reservoir for the this event a public health emergency of there have been 8033 cases of EVD virus's spread to other parts of Africa international concern (PHEIC) under (confirmed, probable, and suspected) and beyond ( 10 ). (who.int)

A massive decade-long study of Western Equatorial Africa's gorillas and chimpanzees has revealed that there are one third more western lowland gorillas and one tenth more central chimpanzees than previously thought. (newswise.com)
The good news: there are one third more western lowland gorillas and one tenth more central chimpanzees than previously thought. (newswise.com)
Researchers collected field data during foot surveys carried out over a 10-year period across the range of both western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) - surveying an area of 192,000 square kilometers (72,000 square miles - equivalent to the size of the state of Washington) and including some of the most remote forests on the African continent. (newswise.com)

We've more or less survived monkeypox, so now it's time for round two: ebola. (skepchick.org)

In just 40 years, Ebola has vanquished about one-third of the world's species, critically endangering the gorillas' lives. (listverse.com)

At the request of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, member countries of the ALBA trade bloc met yesterday at a special summit in Havana, Cuba to discuss methods of preventing the spread of the ebola virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. (venezuelanalysis.com)
I've also read the rationale of Rick Moran , who argues that a generous dose of suspicion regarding the government's ability to deal with the challenges presented by the spread of Ebola is more than warranted. (pjmedia.com)
With the local medical establishments decimated, US, and world aid coming too slowly to the rescue, Ebola is about to exponentially spread through its cities and towns. (hogueprophecy.com)
Soon, over ten thousand people will come down with it each week and it nothing significant is done by the international community to stem its spread, 20,000 people a week will come down with Ebola starting just four weeks from now. (hogueprophecy.com)
Ebola can and will spread in equatorial Western Africa because of non-existent or devastated medical capabilities and lack of sanitation. (hogueprophecy.com)
Technologies that might prevent the spread of Ebola beyond West Africa are under development, and work could accelerate if the outbreak continues to worsen. (technologyreview.com)
In the past year, the Zika virus has spread from its traditional home in Africa and Southeast Asia to Brazil and is now threatening most of South America as well as parts of the southern United States. (courthousenews.com)
The recent outbreak carries the distinction of being the first to strike western Africa, as well as the first to spread to a city. (globaljournalist.org)
NaturalNews) The international Ebola outbreak has caused a wave of alarm among people who are concerned it might spread to their own city or nation. (naturalnews.com)
Ebola can spread through "aerosols," meaning liquid particles suspended in the air. (naturalnews.com)
David Ridenhour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, worried that American soldiers could be faced with difficult moral dilemmas, such as "having to shoot unarmed, possibly infected Liberian civilians or allow Ebola to spread. (utexas.edu)

Medical authorities know that it is very hard to transmit Ebola, that those most at risk live in nations that lack gloves, and moonsuits and quarantine facilities, and that it is brave doctors and nurses who treat patients with Ebola in resource-poor conditions that are at the greatest risk. (nbcnews.com)
Samaritan's Purse, the organization that employs one of the American Ebola patients, says that two American patients received this experimental serum while in Africa. (technologyreview.com)
Furthermore, some reports say that there has been reluctance among patients in West Africa to accept care from Western doctors, stemming from a lack of trust in these health professionals. (technologyreview.com)
In fact, it is paradoxical that the hospitals treating patients infected by Ebola were responsible to a great extent for the small endemics caused by the virus. (herbs2000.com)
When Receiving Samples from Patients Suspected to be Infected with Ebola: What's the Plan? (cdc.gov)
[ 11 ] More recently, a novel arenavirus was identified in 5 patients in southern Africa. (medscape.com)

Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2019 Jul;10(3). (who.int)

In fact, at this stage the virus Ebola is changing the host or patient's internal organs into a viral broth. (herbs2000.com)

To research the math I downloaded an Excel spreadsheet from the CDC that modeled Ebola infections ( here ). (nakedcapitalism.com)
To date, while a variety of unpleasant infections and stomach churning afflictions have been discovered, not a single new case of feral Ebola has come to light in North America. (pjmedia.com)
Sanitizing surfaces is a significant part of any defense against Ebola infections. (naturalnews.com)
Although 70% of infections were predicted to have occurred in Southeast or Southcentral Asia, the next most affected region (16% of infections) was Africa, followed by the Americas (14% of infections). (cdc.gov)

What neither of those countries has anything to do with, is Africa. (newsbusters.org)
A number of countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region have international travel hubs that connect these countries with those of western Africa where the outbreak is ongoing. (who.int)
Although risk of transmission of Ebola through international travel is presumed to be low, in all likelihood, Ebola could be introduced to the Region through a passenger travelling to the Region from any of the affected countries in west Africa with widespread and intense transmission. (who.int)
The risk of transmission of EVD through international travel by air is presumed to be low but, in all likelihood, this would be the most probable scenario of introduction of EVD in the countries of the Region as many countries are connected by daily/weekly flights to many cities in west Africa, and many travellers move frequently between these two WHO regions. (who.int)
The wetter and warmer climates, primarily in African countries, allow mosquitoes to better survive in previously dry seasons. (earth.org)
How do you rate the information that you get from the media about the situation in African countries affected by Ebola? (cdc.gov)
by food imported from Western African countries? (cdc.gov)
affected countries in West Africa. (cdc.gov)
Photo: The head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury, welcomed the arrival of a German aircraft which will be delivering needed supplies and material to countries in western Africa affected by the Ebola virus. (disasterphilanthropy.org)
News outlets discuss how Ebola is straining already struggling health systems in West Africa and those countries' calls for additional assistance. (kff.org)

There is a belief that only 20% of the population is naturally immune to Ebola, and with an exponential pandemic, 70% of the remaining 80% of the population will eventually die. (nakedcapitalism.com)

Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly have been cured of the Ebola virus and released from Emory Hospital in Atlanta…" (Curry, 8/21). (kff.org)

The ebola virus has killed an estimated 4,500 people in Western Africa. (venezuelanalysis.com)

Life is not nearly as good in her home country, Benin, in western Africa bordering Nigeria. (wisconsin.edu)

The monoclonal antibodies attach to a part of the Ebola virus and trigger an immune response that neutralizes any virus particles floating around in the body to keep them from doing additional damage. (technologyreview.com)

MADDOW: Republican congressman Darrell Issa today, telling the world today that Ebola started in a nation called Guyana, which is a nation in South America which has nothing to do with it. (newsbusters.org)

So if you're traveling to Africa, in addition to taking anti-malarial medications you should also take steps to avoid dengue . (cdc.gov)
The large estimated burden of dengue in Africa came as a surprise to some, since dengue is not often recognized to be a risk in Africa. (cdc.gov)
There are several reasons why dengue has limited recognition in Africa. (cdc.gov)
How do we know that there actually is dengue in Africa ? (cdc.gov)
These findings together provide strong evidence that dengue is a risk in much of Africa. (cdc.gov)

One of her first stories was covering an outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola in Benin. (wisconsin.edu)

The Washington Post also contrasts Africans' apparent love of the meat of baboons, chimpanzees, and other wildlife against the "foreign eye" to which bush meat "looks like a flattened, blackened lump of unidentifiable animal parts. (tabletmag.com)
The WCS-led study titled "Guns, germs and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa" appears in the latest edition of the journal Science Advances . (newswise.com)
The census revealed that this country is home to 7000 chimpanzees and therefore to the second largest population of the Western subspecies of chimpanzees. (sciencedaily.com)

Fear of Ebola and healthcare workers led to a breakdown in trust in health systems. (nih.gov)
Patient ScreeningThe confirmation of an Ebola case in Dallas has led virtually ALL healthcare providers to integrate Ebola screening questions into EVERY patient interaction. (amr.net)
episode, "Dr. Paul Farmer on African Ebola Outbreak: Growing Inequality in Global Healthcare at Root of Crisis. (kimpavitapress.no)
Farmer: "Well, I think the most important thing to understand is that this [Ebola outbreak] is a reflection of long-standing and growing inequalities of access to basic systems of healthcare delivery, and that includes the staff, the stuff and, again, these systems. (kimpavitapress.no)

In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis. (ei-ie.org)

In nearby Womey, 8 people distributing information about Ebola were killed by the villagers. (wikipedia.org)
Two people contracted Ebola in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
As of last week, the Ebola outbreak had claimed the lives of 88 percent of the more than 1,000 people who had contracted the virus. (technologyreview.com)
Yet until the advent of Ebola, a more multifaceted portrayal of modern Africa and its people had been working its way into the mainstream. (tabletmag.com)
It is natural that American media is interested in stories that affect American people, and it makes sense that more coverage would have been given to Ebola, an illness that very few people would ever have heard of, when it started to have an impact on America. (tabletmag.com)
Here at Natural News, we're being flooded with requests from people asking whether any natural cures exist to kill Ebola. (naturalnews.com)
This isn't just the WHO declaring something about ebola - dozens of people who have studied ebola for years agree with them that it is not airborne, it probably won't mutate to become airborne, and it is containable. (skepchick.org)
Ebola has been studied for nearly 50 years, and the people who handled the last outbreak in 2014-ish are still here and working and can inform us on how to handle this one. (skepchick.org)
That creates a conflict which is spilling into Ebola zones, possibly sending forth thousands of people with Ebola as refugees. (amerika.org)
In fact, the strains of Ebola that struck people in Zaire appeared to be somewhat different from the strains of the virus that attacked people in Sudan earlier. (herbs2000.com)
I avoid contact to African people from acquaintanceship. (cdc.gov)
I avoid contact to African people in public places. (cdc.gov)

Health ministries and workers started an aggressive Ebola information campaign on all media formats to properly inform the residents and allow aid workers safe access to the high risk areas. (wikipedia.org)
Schuchat said the resources that were set aside for Ebola are already being spent around the globe, including in 17 nations at risk of an outbreak like the one seen in Western Africa last year. (courthousenews.com)
These health-care volunteers should remain in Africa for the extra 21 days and perform valuable administrative tasks that do not require patient contact or high-risk activities. (virology.ws)

However, considering the time that it may take to cross the Sahara desert, and the strains of such a journey, it may be too much for an Ebola infected person to survive this long and strenuous journey before they arrive at their point of destination in the Region. (who.int)
In addition, like in the case of Marburg, scientists are yet to find the natural host of any of the various Ebola strains. (herbs2000.com)
What is more remarkable regarding the strains of Ebola virus is that these filoviruses are actually not as infective as they were initially seemed to be. (herbs2000.com)

All caregivers are trained in the necessary precautions to protect against blood and body fluid contamination from diseases like Ebola. (amr.net)
European scientists are working round the clock at the prestigious Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome to set up a mobile laboratory soon to be deployed in Ebola-affected villages in West Africa. (kff.org)
In May 1995, these diseases came to worldwide attention with an outbreak of Ebola virus near the city of Kikwik, Zaire. (medscape.com)

A decade ago, scientists would have laughed at the idea of Ebola as a public health emergency of international concern. (kff.org)

Organisms3

Diseases2

Chemicals and Drugs1

Phenomena and Processes1

Information Science1

Geographicals10

Outbreaks18

Epidemic23

World Health Organ14

19768

Hemorrhagic6

Disease43

Sierra Leone6

Disabled by the Ebola virus1

Lassa6

Democratic Repub3

Central Africa2

Guinea7

Liberia5

West Africans4

Fight Ebola2

Zaire Ebola1

Humans3

Outbreak in western5

Vaccine10

20161

Filoviridae1

Endemic1

Filovirus1

Viruses4

Infection6

Preparedness2

Centers2

Prevention2

Travelers2

Malaria2

Populations3

Efforts3

Bellevue Hospital1

EBOV1

Cases11

Lowland gorillas3

Monkeypox1

Species1

Spread11

Patients6

20191

Viral1

Infections4

Countries10

Pandemic1

Kent Brantly1

4,5001

Nigeria1

Antibodies1

South America1

Dengue5

Deadly virus1

Chimpanzees3

Healthcare4

Crisis1

People12

Risk3

Strains3

Diseases3

Concern1