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A Liberian doctor is using HIV drugs to treat Ebola victims. The NIH is intrigued.

TheWashingtonPost- Gorbee Logan, a doctor in rural Liberia, has given at least 15 Ebola patients lamivudine, which is considered a long-term and effective drug to treat HIV patients. All but two of them survived.

October 6, 2014
| Filed under Africa, International, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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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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Dallas Ebola patient ‘fighting for his life,’ CDC head says.

TheWashingtonPost- Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in critical condition, remains the only person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Officials are closely monitoring people with whom Duncan has come into contact for signs of the infection, he said.

October 6, 2014
| Filed under North America 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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Four Deaths Are Linked to a Respiratory Illness

TheNewYorkTimes: At least four people have died after contracting a severe respiratory illness that has spread to more than 40 states, public health officials announced on Wednesday. The deaths were the first to be linked to the nationwide outbreak of enterovirus 68, which has caused an influx of sick children — some of them critically Read More »