Ebola epidemic in West Africa

Uganda got a bitter taste of that in 2000, when 425 cases of Ebola erupted in Gulu district. It was the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded – until 2014, when the virus killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa and was carried to the U.S. and Europe. So Ugandans were aware of these devastating ...

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No one was ready for Ebola when it hit West Africa at that time. By listing Disease X, an undetermined disease, the WHO is acknowledging that outbreaks do not always come from an identified source and that, as it admits, “a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown ...

A career civil servant and public-health specialist, Schuchat has dealt with anthrax outbreaks in the United States, Ebola in West Africa, and SARS in China. She is highly respected within the agency, and many hoped that she would be permanently appointed. “You'd have joyous celebration if they made ...

Nearly 500 health workers died during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Front-line caregivers wear full-body protective suits when they come into contact with patients with virulent diseases, but the process of removing the gear is a prime opportunity for infection if the surface is contaminated.

Fortunately, a global initiative exists to improve core public health capacities. In 2014, the United States launched the Global Health Security Agenda to help strengthen countries' capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Following the devastating Ebola epidemic in West Africa, ...

By July, the Ebola outbreak was over, resulting in four deaths. This rapid release of US$ 2 million quite possibly saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars. In contrast, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 resulted in more than 11,000 deaths and cost more than US$ 3.6 billion to contain. Later in ...

“Less than a third of the $4.5 billion pledged in 2015 to help three countries in West Africa recover from a devastating Ebola epidemic is reported to have been disbursed, according to a new tracking initiative developed by the United Nations and their three governments. The U.S., World Bank, African ...

An unprecedented outbreak of a deadly viral disease in Nigeria is showcasing the newfound might of the country's public-health agency. Reforms put in place since a devastating Ebola epidemic struck West Africa in 2014 have transformed how Nigeria responds to infectious disease — including the current ...

"We believe this is the first study to assess willingness to pay for an Ebola vaccine in the United States," Painter explains. "This is important because previous studies conducted in West Africa are not generalizable to the U.S. population. "We were unsure of what to expect. The actual risk of Ebola infection ...

... challenges. The economy of the poverty-stricken country is in a poor state following a commodity price slump and an Ebola epidemic that killed thousands of people. ... The WHO says it's confident the last few cases from the deadliest ever outbreak of Ebola in West Africa can be contained. More than ...

... 7 people, sterilized after dying due to the Ebola virus, in Kptema graveyard in Kenema, Sierra Leone on August 26, 2014. In recent months, Ebola a contagious disease for which there is no known treatment or cure has claimed at least 1429 lives in West Africa, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

BEV Kauffeldt's voice quavered as she described the plight of a young well technician employed in Liberia by the international humanitarian aid organisation Samaritan's Purse. The man lost 18 family members to Ebola when the virus ravaged several countries in West Africa almost two years ago, Kauffeldt ...

If you want to understand West Africa's largest-ever Lassa fever outbreak, which has killed 78 people so far, you need to know about rats. But first: Yes, there is an outbreak of the deadly, Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in one of the most populous countries on earth. When severe, in about 10 to 20 percent of ...

During the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the first cases were initially misdiagnosed as cholera, and then later as Lassa fever on the basis of clinical symptoms. It took nearly 3 months before blood samples sent to Europe finally identified the disease as Ebola, during which time it was allowed to ...

A "safety zone" has been set up for the care of a patient from West Africa who went to the Winchester Medical Center's emergency department Thursday ... There is "no concern" that the patient has been exposed to the Ebola virus, according to Valley Health, which owns and operates the medical center in ...

More than 11,000 people died during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013-16, demonstrating both the deadly nature of the virus and the limitations of the medication used to fight it. Image/CDC. Now, University of Guelph researchers have shown that an innovative antibody delivery method could ...

Paul Richards says the West panicked during the Ebola epidemic in Africa in 2014, in "Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic'. ... Paul Richards says the international community's panicky response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa failed to take account of local expertise and common ...

Death is a very real concern with Ebola, which was responsible for more than 11,000 people killed in West Africa between 2013 and 2016. For the purposes of their research, the team is now seeking research funding for human clinical trials from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, formed ...

More than 11,000 people died during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013-16, demonstrating both the deadly nature of the virus and the ... "If you use an AAV gene therapy vector to deliver the DNA blueprint to a cell, that cell will produce a protective antibody against Ebola virus, which is then ...

A new study says more than 100,000 malaria cases went untreated in Liberia during the height of the Ebola crisis. The deadly virus spread in West Africa for two years beginning in 2014. The disease killed about 11,000 people. But it also severely affected basic health care services. Ebola kills about half of ...

However, in severe cases, it can mimic another deadly haemorrhagic fever, Ebola, causing bleeding through the nose, mouth and other parts of the body. Lassa fever normally has a ... These small mammals are common across West Africa, where they easily find their way into homes. Another possibility is ...

A Texas-based research team will begin clinical trials on an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus. ZMapp, the monoclonal antibody combination therapy that was used to treat humans during the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak before even reaching human clinical trials, will be further researched by ...

The West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (ECOWAS-RCSDC)-the region's response to managing and preventing epidemics-goes operational in Abuja on Wednesday, nearly three years after heads of regional governments approved it in 2015. The West African Health ...

“Coupling the powerful tools of systems biology research with the resources built up over the past fifteen years in West Africa will allow important advances in our understanding of Ebola and Lassa fever, two of the deadliest diseases known,” said Robert Garry, PhD, co-director of the new center and ...

The West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (ECOWAS-RCSDC)-the region's response to managing and preventing epidemics-goes operational in Abuja on Wednesday, nearly three years after heads of regional governments approved it in 2015. The West African Health ...

More than 100,000 malaria cases went untreated when Liberia's health care system buckled under the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, according to a new study. The research, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, shows how the toll of the Ebola outbreak goes beyond the 11,000 killed in West Africa by the ...

Acclaimed public health expert, Harvard physician and Partners In Health founder Paul Farmer addresses a sold-out lecture at Kane Auditorium on Wednesday, February 7. Farmer looked back on lessons learned during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed over 11,000 people over the course ...

Dr. Sakoba Keita, who coordinated Guinea's national response to the Ebola outbreak from 2014-2016, told private radio station Espace FM that the new Lassa fever case was the country's first known one since 1996. The disease, however, has long existed in West Africa. Nigerian authorities have reported ...

Ebola virus can infect the reproductive organs of male and female macaques, according to a study published in The American Journal of Pathology, suggesting that humans could be similarly infected. Prior studies of survivors of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa have revealed sexual ...

She currently provides arrangements for overland trips transiting through West Africa. “Yet, we've got so much more to offer as a standalone destination,” she tells me. “The beaches are West Africa's best, there's lively nightlife, and we have tropical rainforest. The challenge is overcoming being only known ...

Bev Kauffeldt's voice quavered as she described the plight of a young well technician employed in Liberia by the international humanitarian aid organization Samaritan's Purse. The man lost 18 family members to Ebola when the virus ravaged several countries in West Africa almost two years ago, Kauffeldt said. He and his ...

People in West Africa are still trying to recover from an Ebola outbreak four years ago, an epidemic that claimed the lives of thousands of people in Sierra Leone alone. Survivors now complain they are not getting the help they need. Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports from the city of Waterloo, where some are ...

The Vodafone Foundation said analysis of such data could provide potentially life-saving insights during an epidemic, such as the 2014 Ebola outbreak across west Africa. “As we can now measure human mobility it is possible to model how infections spread,” said Joakim Reiter, the Vodafone external ...