Boston Hospital Only New England Center Designated to Treat Ebola Patients
As part of a recent training session, staff members at the Center for Disaster Medicine in Boston trained on a ...
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MSF Update on Ebola Frontline Response
Medical facilities, personnel and patients have continued to be the targets of violent attacks, with an increase in attacks and ...
Revocation of Emergency Use Authorizations of Zika, Ebola Diagnostics
OraSure and DiaSorin diagnostics received other classifications for use which removed them from EUA eligibility. The following is a summarized ...
Attacks on Health Care Monthly News Brief
At least 424 attacks on health care occurred in the DRC between January and November 2019. Numbers of reported incidents increased ...
The Future Biosecurity Implications of Thousands of Samples Taken During Outbreaks
We learned from the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola outbreaks that during the emergency, the future biosecurity implications of of sample ...
Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease Develop Polyfunctional Antibody Responses
Monoclonal antibodies can mediate protection against Ebola virus (EBOV) infection through direct neutralization as well as through the recruitment of ...
PBS Filmmaker Q&A on Covering Ebola Response in North Kivu
When Ben C. Solomon, FRONTLINE’s filmmaker-in-residence, went to North Kivu province to document the Ebola outbreak, he was drawn to ...
Rebuilding After Ebola: Sierra Leone Asks Idris Elba to Serve as “Brand Ambassador”
Film actor Idris Elba and his wife were recently granted honorary citizenship in his late father’s homeland of Sierra Leone ...
Health Security Milestone: First FDA-Approved Ebola Vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of ERVEBO®, the first FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of ...
USAID Podcast: Strengthening Our Capabilities for Relief and Response
In this USAID Podcast episode, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Admiral Tim Ziemer ...
Ebola Patient Was Not Reinfected: Killed by Resurgence of Virus Lurking in Immune System
There was alarm last week among experts when the first reports came through that a patient had died after catching ...
Getting to Zero Ebola Cases: Better Communication to Overcome Community Mistrust
Ebola-specific terms like EDS (“safe and dignified burial”) and “swab” are in French or English and are not consistently translated and explained ...
Congo Authorities Say Ebola Survivor Falls Ill Second Time
An Ebola survivor has fallen ill with the disease for a second time in eastern Congo, the Congolese health authorities ...
British Nationals Evacuated from Sierra Leone for Lassa Fever Contact Monitoring
Three British nationals have been brought back to the UK from Sierra Leone for medical assessment after coming into close contact with ...
Spike in Violence May Jeopardize Ending Ebola in Congo
Dr. Mike Ryan, who directs the U.N. health agency’s Ebola response, told reporters on Friday there were only seven new ...
Highly Diluted Dose of Ebola Vaccine Shown Effective in Primate Study
A single dose of VSV-Ebola virus vaccine—approximately one-millionth of what is in the vaccine being used in the outbreak outbreak ...
Senate Funding Bills Recognize, but Fall Short of Needs for Critical Infectious Disease Responses
The following statement released on Sept. 19 from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is published here in its ...
Ebola Epidemic Officially Declared a Public Health Emergency
On July 17, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health ...
Emergency Response and Recovery Supplemental Funding for GHSA Support
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Response and Recovery Branch may have funds available to support ...
Ebola Situation Worsening and Still Only Half of Response Budget is Funded
Only half of the requested funds for the Ebola crisis response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been ...
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