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Ebola Response Road map- WHO

WorldHealthOrganization- The roadmap structure, country reports fall into two categories: those with widespread and intense transmission (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone); and those with an initial case or cases, or with localized transmission (Nigeria, Senegal, United States of America). An overview of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a separate, unrelated outbreak Read More »

October 6, 2014
| Filed under International, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Scrutiny in Texas to Detect Whether Ebola Has Spread

TheNewYorkTimes: The man who has become the first Ebola patient to develop symptoms in the United States told officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital last Friday that he had just arrived from West Africa but was not admitted that day because that information was not passed along at the hospital, officials acknowledged Wednesday.

October 2, 2014
| Filed under International, North America, and Public Health
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WHO statement on the Seventh Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding MERS-CoV

WorldHealthOrganization: The seventh meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) regarding the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was conducted with members and advisors of the Emergency Committee through electronic correspondence from 26 September 2014 through 30 September 2014. The WHO Secretariat provided an update on Read More »

October 2, 2014
| Filed under International, Countermeasures, and International
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Why Big Data Missed the Early Warning Signs of Ebola

ForeignPolicy- With the Centers for Disease Control now forecasting up to 1.4 million new infections from the current Ebola outbreak, what could “big data” do to help us identify the earliest warnings of future outbreaks and track the movements of the current outbreak in realtime? It turns out that monitoring the spread of Ebola can teach us a Read More »

October 2, 2014
| Filed under International, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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WHO | Experimental Ebola vaccines

WorldHealthOrganization- The WHO has announced that they have been assessing the status of work to test and eventually license two candidate Ebola vaccines. The two candidate vaccines have clinical-grade vials available for phase 1 pre-licensure clinical trials.