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Mon, 2015-02-23 05:17 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on discussions about health within the West Africa MPHISE.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about health within the West Africa MPHISE.

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Africa reaches 100,000 known COVID-19 deaths despite earlier low rates

Fri, 2021-02-19 16:23 — mike kraft
Africa reaches 100,000 known COVID-19 deaths as danger grows NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and... AP NEWS
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OPINION: Until Africans get the Covid vaccinations they need, the whole world will suffer

Mon, 2021-02-08 03:08 — mike kraft
Until Africans get the Covid vaccinations they need, the whole world will suffer | Paul Kagame We’re not asking for charity, but fairness – instead of hoarding and protectionism, says Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda the Guardian
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Pandemic has increased poverty and starvation in many countries--UN and OECD studies

Tue, 2020-12-01 17:03 — mike kraft
Pandemic fills ranks of extreme poverty worldwide The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year. Matthew Lavietes U.S.
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Hepatitis is still a silent killer in Africa and elsewhere

Fri, 2020-10-09 17:46 — mike kraft
Hepatitis is still a silent killer in Africa and elsewhere - STAT The revolutionary advances in hepatitis C research have yet to reach many countries, where deaths from this disease are common. Patrick Skerrett STAT

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded this week to three researchers who discovered the virus that causes hepatitis C.

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Africa has held off the worst of the coronavirus. Researchers are working to figure out how.

Sun, 2020-09-27 13:37 — mike kraft
Africa has held off the worst of the coronavirus. Researchers are working to figure out how. The reasons are still something of a mystery, but scientists said the success of many African countries offers crucial lessons. NBC News

 

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RECOMENDATIONS: Ebola Response Priorities in the Time of Covid-19

Fri, 2020-09-25 18:01 — mike kraft
Ebola Response Priorities in the Time of Covid-19 | NEJM Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Ebola Response Priorities in the Time of Covid-19 New England Journal of Medicine

On April 10, 2020, a total of 53 days after the last patient with Ebola virus disease (EVD) had been isolated and more than 23 months since the start of the 10th EVD outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a new confirmed case was reported in the Beni health zone. This case, and the six that followed, brought the total to 3462 cases — the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.

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UN Suspends Ebola Screening After 3 Aid Workers Killed in South Sudan

Sun, 2019-11-03 13:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

IOM offices in South Sudan. Credit: IOM

abcnews.go.com - by Morgan Winsor - October 31, 2019

The United Nations migration agency has halted Ebola screenings at five border crossings in East Africa after three of its aid workers were killed.

The International Organization for Migration said several of its volunteers were caught in the crossfire during clashes between rival groups on Saturday morning in South Sudan's Central Equatoria region. Two men and one woman died, and two male volunteers sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

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CLICK HERE - OCHA - South Sudan: Three humanitarian workers killed

CLICK HERE - IOM halts Ebola screening after aid workers killed in South Sudan

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Climate Crisis Raises Risk of More Ebola Outbreaks

Wed, 2019-10-16 13:46 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Impacts of environmental and socio-economic factors on emergence and epidemic potential of Ebola in Africa

cnn.com - by Jen Christensen - October 15, 2019

The climate crisis is going to raise the risk that Ebola will spread farther and reach areas previously unaffected by the virus, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications . . .

 . . . In west and central Africa, where outbreaks have traditionally clustered, outbreaks would happen more frequently and spread farther, via airlines, to previously unaffected areas, the researchers suggested. Using the current network of airline flights in their model, the study suggests that there is a high risk of Ebola spreading to China, Russia, India, Europe and the United States.

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FDA Allows Marketing of First Rapid Diagnostic Test for Detecting Ebola Virus Antigens

Tue, 2019-10-15 07:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

fda.gov - October 10, 2019

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to detect Ebola virus antigens (proteins) in human blood from certain living individuals and samples from certain recently deceased individuals suspected to have died from Ebola (cadaveric oral fluid). The OraQuick Ebola Rapid Antigen Test is the first rapid diagnostic test the FDA has allowed to be marketed in the U.S. for the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The test provides a rapid, presumptive diagnosis that must be confirmed.

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OraQuick Ebola Rapid Antigen Test (8 page .PDF document)
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf19/DEN190025.pdf

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WHO Signals Alarm Over Possible Unreported Ebola Cases in Tanzania

Mon, 2019-09-23 00:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

CLICK HERE - WHO - STATEMENT - Cases of Undiagnosed Febrile Illness – United Republic of Tanzania

statnews.com - by Helen Branswell - September 21, 2019

The World Health Organization issued an extraordinary statement Saturday raising concerns about possible unreported Ebola cases in Tanzania and urging the country to provide patient samples for testing at an outside laboratory.

The statement relates to a Tanzanian doctor who died Sept. 8 after returning to her country from Uganda; she reportedly had Ebola-like symptoms. Several contacts of the woman became sick, though Tanzanian authorities have insisted they tested negative for Ebola. 

But the country has not shared the tests so they can be validated at an outside laboratory, as suggested under the International Health Regulations, a treaty designed to protect the world from spread of infectious diseases.

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