"ZURICH—A European regulatory body said Tuesday it is continuing to review seven experimental treatments for the Ebola virus disease, but cautioned it doesn’t have enough information to assess any of the drugs. In an interim report, the London-based ..."
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"Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that 6,841 people have been killed by the Ebola virus disease so far since its outbreak. "A total of 18,464 confirmed, suspected cases of Ebola virus disease …"
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"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have been urged to provide urgent debt relief to the three Ebola-hit countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – which are due to spend $100 million by the end …"
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"TUESDAY, Dec. 16, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Men who survive Ebola should wear condoms during sex for at least three months after recovering from the deadly disease, a new study shows. The finding supports the …"
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"MONOCLONAL anti-body company Kymab will lead a new consortium aiming to develop new treatments to fight killer disease ebola. The firm has been awarded a grant by the Wellcome Trust to enable it to lead the …"
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" [Murthy's confirmation is a huge victory for Indian American doctors: AAPI] "Our role was educational and advocacy. During the Ebola crisis you could see that the health department had no direction and was a sorry spectacle." Jahagirdar said. Even on Monday, the day of voting, AAPI ran …"
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"Here are the three most likely to send Glaxo shares soaring. No. 1: Vaccines + Ebola = Success? Speaking personally, one of the more memorable moments in health care in 2014 was the $20 billion-plus asset swap …"
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" Francois Nosten, a French malaria expert who has been studying the disease along the Myanmar-Thai border for about three decades, said drug-resistance is a quiet menace that is at risk of …"
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"Positive results against Ebola in vitro have been reported to the Company by the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). Clinical trial data will be necessary to establish human efficacy of Alferon® N for Ebola ..."
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"THERE are two fences of prison-like bars at the replica hospital with more than an arm’s reach between them. One side of the fence of bars is for desperate family members; the other for those suspected of contracting the deadly ebola virus. Those ..."
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" [Spanish Ebola Doctor: 'With The Money From Corruption, We Could End Ebola'] When a health professional removes his Ebola suit in Bo, Sierra Leone -- a country where the virus is still spreading at full speed -- he has a choice. He can either place one foot in front of the other, like a Michael …"
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" [For Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone, Survival Takes More Than Medicine] An Ebola management center run by Doctors Without Borders in Bo, Sierra Leone. Erika Check Hayden BO, Sierra Leone—Morning rounds have just begun at an Ebola treatment center here in the city of Bo, in central …"
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"There’s no such thing as a good day when you’re treating Ebola patients, writes Sarah Robinson, a Red Cross nurse working in our Ebola treatment centre in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Whenever I get home from the …"
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"In practical terms, said Jeffrey Townsend, a Yale biostatistician and the study’s lead author, that means that for every 100 known cases, there are 120 actual ones, rather than 350 as in the earlier estimates. The study …"
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"There is some talk online and in the conservative media that the predictions made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention back in September regarding potential Ebola cases by January 2015 were hysterical exaggerations. Actually, they were not.
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"An experimental vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease was well-tolerated and produced immune system responses in all 20 healthy adults who received it. Based on these results, researchers are planning further trials …"
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"Two months after the first U.S. Ebola patient died in Dallas, thousands of people have been screened at airports and tracked by health workers, and millions of dollars have been spent readying hospitals. And there’s been just one new case diagnosed in ..."
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"New diagnostic tests to more rapidly and simply detect Ebola could be available for use in the West Africa epidemic in the next few months, the World Health Organization and partner agencies say. It now takes …"
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"* At this point in time there is not enough evidence for any of the experimental therapies for ebola virus disease to draw conclusions on their safety or efficacy when used in Ebola patients * Interim report published by EMA that is continuing to review ..."
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"NEW HAVEN >> The Ebola epidemic is spreading mostly among people who are closely associated with one another in “social clusters,” according to a new Yale University study. Jeffrey Townsend, principal …
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"“They were trying to get us to do the best job we could. We were told that this is very good income for the country,” said a Cuban doctor we’ll call Dr. Jose Suarez, describing instructions from his government as he …"
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"The failure of Sierra Leone's strategy for fighting Ebola may be down to a missing ingredient: a big shock that could change people's behaviour and finally prevent further infection. Bruce Aylward, the head of Ebola …"
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"12/15/2014 - SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Information about ebola can be found at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Deisease Control website at http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/infographics.html. According …
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"PolitiFact has decided that the biggest lie this year wasn’t by one individual, but rather by the media in general. …fear of the disease stretched to every corner of America this fall, stoked by exaggerated claims from …"
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"The Ebola epidemic was easily the most talked about medical story of the year. The virus broke out in several countries in West Africa and caused a widespread panic here in the United States. NY1's Cheryl Wills filed ..."
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"Practically nothing coming out of the mouths of government health officials these days concerning the spread of Ebola virus is scientifically verifiable. And in a new study, researchers from two prominent universities in Pennsylvania ..."
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"Trials of 'convalescent' plasma have begun in Liberia, and plasma and blood studies in Guinea and Sierra Leone will follow. The first clinical trials are starting in west Africa to test whether transfusing patients with plasma …"
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"The Bong County Task Force on Ebola disclosed that it has discovered at least 50 children who have lost both parents to the Ebola virus disease in Bong County. Acquainting journalists at the office of the Bong County Health Team on the Phebe Hospital ..."
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"Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks with Doctors Without Borders staff during a visit in August to an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. /Tommy Trenchard …"
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"The [Nigeria] Federal Government on Monday lamented the repatriation of 30 Nigerians by Sudan over suspicion of them being infected by the Ebola Virus Disease. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had already protested the …"
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"About 100 soldiers from 35 Squadron, 5 Medical Regiment, based at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire have returned from a seven-week tour in Sierra Leone as part of the British Army's support of the response to …"
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"Credentialed members of the press who wish to attend should email aschwartz@csis.org or click below. Featuring: Dr. Anthony Fauci Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Dr. Moncef Slaoui Member of the GSK Board of ..."
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"As Time magazine named those fighting the Ebola epidemic its collective "Person Of The Year," a morning keynote and panel discussion last week at the mHealth Summit sought to shine the spotlight on another Ebola …"
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"Team from APG sees Ebola mission in Liberia shift. "It depends on the epidemic, whether we can come home sooner or later," says leader of APG team fighting Ebola When the Army scientists from Aberdeen Proving …"
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"While serious infections can be transmitted from donated organs, the risk of passing Ebola virus disease from an organ donor to a recipient is extremely small. In a new editorial published in the American Journal of …"
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"A Houston elementary school teacher has been asked to resign after she made anti-Muslim remarks on public access television and wished that Ebola would "take out Obama" in mid-November, Houston Independent …"
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"HINCKLEY, Ohio, Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinical Research Management, Inc. (ClinicalRM) today announced that the clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of Ebola convalescent plasma (ECP) for the treatment of Ebola virus disease (EVD ..."
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"Two people hospitalized at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) has started a flurry of rumors concerning the presence of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on the Caribbean island of Barbados. However, on Monday, the Ministry of Health came out and stated ..."
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"The federal government on Monday declared as "erroneous and unfortunate" the repatriation of 30 Nigerians by Sudan for suspicion of their being infected by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Nigerian government had ..."
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"Fofana is leaving no stone unturned in assisting the Government of Sierra Leone in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). (Photo: Ambassador Fofana in his Tehran office) Ambassador Fofana has met with …"
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"The 2014 outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa is the first EVD hit the region and the largest documented in history. Since it was declared in Guinea this past March, the virus has continued to spread within West Africa and beyond."
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"They promised that “CDB and CADFund will stand together with the Ebola epidemic stricken countries and their people in the fight against Ebola” They expressed optimism that the EVD battle will be won and the …"
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"We are monitoring them as a precautionary measure. If any of them show symptoms akin to Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), they will be moved to the designated isolation wards. Their blood samples will be sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology …"
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"Lauding the telecommunications sector for providing the foundation for operational efficiency in other sectors of the economy, Juwah disclosed that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which has killed thousands of people …"
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"Prominent among these challenges before us today is the ravaging Ebola epidemic. The last six months have witnessed the negative impact of the Ebola Virus Disease(EVD) on the region. Since its outbreak in March, this year, the disease has resulted in …"
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"said holiday travelers shouldn't be worried about canceling holiday travel unless “they're planning on going to West Africa.” “(The United States) is technically Ebola-free now,” Hacker said. “The only people that have been infected (in the U.S ..."
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"While politicians exaggerated the extent of the Ebola outbreak in the United States, the disease continues to pose a serious threat in West Africa. According to The New York Times, more than 18,000 people have contracted the disease in Guinea, Liberia ..."
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"Given the focus on the spread of Ebola in West Africa and its effect on travel, ILTM organizers apparently felt the need to address the crisis (which seems to abated somewhat recently, at least in terms of media attention to it). They did so by asking ..."
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"Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst epidemic of the viral hemorrhagic fever. Mali's last infected patient recovered and left hospital last week, while the remaining individuals who came in contact with an infected person …"
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Obama says that is the best way to prevent the spread of this deadly disease, /s.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Good to know Ebola is not making news any more. Wow. What a list.
Poor baby.