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Medical Research: Ebola Therapy Protects Severely Ill Monkeys

Mon, 2014-10-06 02:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

nature.com

Thomas W. Geisbert

Nature 514, 41–43 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13746 - Published online 29 August 2014

A blend of three monoclonal antibodies has completely protected monkeys against a lethal dose of Ebola virus. Unlike other post-infection therapies, the treatment works even at advanced stages of the disease. See Article p.47

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7520/full/nature13746.html

Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp

Nature 514, 47–53 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13777
Received 05 August 2014 - Accepted 21 August 2014 - Published online 29 August 2014

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5 Reasons We May Never Know Ebola’s True Impact

Sun, 2014-10-05 23:27 — Maeryn Obley

Image: A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) worker is sprayed and disinfected as he leaves a high risk zone of MSF's Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 29, 2014. Jerome Delay—AP

time.com - September 30th, 2014 - Jack Linshi

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report in mid-September estimating that if current trends in the Ebola outbreak continue without a ramped up effort, then Ebola cases in West Africa would double every 20 days. In that situation, Ebola cases could reach up 1.4 million by January.

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Ebola's shadow extends to would-be Mecca pilgrims

Sun, 2014-10-05 22:31 — mike kraft

TWO ARTICLES ON EBOLA CONCERNS DURING THE HAJJ

Al Jazeera Oct 5, 2014

Millions of pilgrims from all corners of the world traveled to Saudi Arabia for the start of the hajj in the past week, but some West African Muslims will not be able to take part in the sacred journey this year because of public health fears surrounding the Ebola outbreak.

Saudi Arabia issued a travel ban on citizens of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone as what it called a “precautionary measure,” saying the risk of Ebola infection is too high for travelers from those countries to be allowed entry now.

The Ebola-stricken countries each have sizable Muslim populations... Saudi authorities have turned down about 7,000 requests for hajj visas from the three countries because of Ebola concerns, according to the United Nations.

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Why We Won't Have An Ebola Cure Or Vaccine For Years

Sun, 2014-10-05 07:48 — Maeryn Obley

UPDATE with comments from interviw with CDC Director Tom Frieden. Scroll below.

huffingtonpost.com - October 2nd, 2014 - Jeffery Young

The world has known about Ebola for almost 40 years, yet there's no cure or vaccine on the market.

That could change amid worldwide attention to the ongoing outbreak of the virus in West Africa, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives already, and the first diagnosis of a patient with the disease in the United States. But not for a few more years -- at least.

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Update: Comments by CDC Director on Sunday TV interview

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/cdc-director-tom-frieden-ebola-drug-pipeline-will-be-slow-n218666

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Vectors, Hosts, Fomites and Food….The challenge of controlling Ebola in West Africa

Tue, 2014-09-30 18:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Vectors, Hosts, Fomites and Food….The challenge of controlling Ebola in West Africa

John T. Hoffman

Colonel, USA, Retired

Senior Research Fellow

National Center for Food Protection and Defense

University of Minnesota

September 29, 2014

Control of VHF Ebola in West Africa is complicated by the fact that we know so little as to the mechanisms for the spread of the disease other than direct contact with infected persons or their bodily fluids, which local wildlife and rodents actually serve as hosts for the virus and the actual survivability of viable Ebola virus on fomites. Given these knowledge gaps, modeling the spread and control of the disease with any probability of being close to reality is unlikely. Potentially, these gaps suggest that the current focus on treatment and traditional control protocols have be insufficient to stop the outbreak and produce an Ebola free West Africa.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation - Ebola Outbreak Coordination Conference Call

Sat, 2014-09-27 22:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

uschamberfoundation.org

Event: Corporate Citizenship Center - Ebola Outbreak Coordination Conference Call
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 2:00pm

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center (CCC) hosted a conference call on Friday, September 26 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Over the past six months, an Ebola outbreak has affected five countries in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone). The current outbreak is unprecedented in scale and geographical reach: the present West Africa outbreak has a higher caseload than all other previous Ebola crises combined. Worse yet, the United Nations reports that the outbreak continues to accelerate, with almost 40% of the total cases occurring in the past 21 days.

CCC’s Ebola coordination conference call will provide updated information on the humanitarian response and the efforts to contain the disease. It will also detail ways that the business community can help.

CLICK HERE - Listen to the Call Archive

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Ebola: a Failure of International Collective Action

Fri, 2014-09-26 20:43 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Lancet, Volume 384, Issue 9949, Page 1181, 27 September 2014
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61606-8

Published Online: 10 September 2014

Mit Philips, Aine Markham

The Lancet Editorial (Aug 23, p 637)1 sums up the collective failure to respond in a manner that might have avoided or at least limited the scale of the present Ebola epidemic.

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Ebola Control Measures and Inadequate Responses

Fri, 2014-09-26 18:25 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Lancet, Volume 384, Issue 9949, Pages 1181 - 1182, 27 September 2014
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61346-5

Published Online: 10 September 2014

Timothy W Ryschon

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UPDATE: WHITE HOUSE MEETING TODAY ON GLOBAL HEALTH STRATEGY

Fri, 2014-09-26 14:08 — mike kraft

Update of this Morning's story:

Obama tells global health officials: After Ebola, ‘we have to do better.’Obama tells global health officials: After Ebola, ‘we have to do better.’

WASHINGTON POST
By Juliet Eilperin September 26 at 1:30 PM

WASHINGTON --

President Obama addressed health officials from dozens of countries who had gathered Friday at the White House to determine ways the international community can strengthen defenses against future epidemics, such as the Ebola outbreak now raging in West Africa.

Administration officials had launched a global health security initiative in February to help other nations develop basic disease detection and monitoring systems to contain the spread of deadly illnesses.

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