Showing posts with label Sierra Leone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sierra Leone. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 November 2015

Congratulations to Sierra Leone for defeating its Ebola virus disease epidemic!

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Edited by Katherine Arden, PhD. "On Behalf of the Sierra Leone National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) and the World  Health Organis...
Saturday, 10 October 2015

Is the next Ebola virus revelation...reactivating infection?

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Update #1 11OCT2015 AEST Update #2 11OCT2015 AEST Update #3 22OCT2015 AEST Great. Are members of the  Zaire ebolavirus  (EBOV) speci...
Sunday, 16 August 2015

Snapdate: Ebola virus diseaseClick on image to enlarge.

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This is one of the data visualizations from my Ebola virus disease (EVD) graphs and tallies page.[1] A crude extrapolation from current ...
Friday, 8 May 2015

iBola and the speed of research reporting during outbreaks and epidemics...

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My thanks to Dr Judy Stone who pointed out the New York Times Health article.[1] Ebola virus takes advantage of privileged sites The N...
Saturday, 21 February 2015

Ebola virus disease: obliterating a variant and stalled case decline...

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We've seen the words  vigilant and vigilance used widely in recent weeks, ever since we entered a "new phase" of the Ebola v...
Thursday, 5 February 2015

Cases of Ebola virus infection can be exported any old time...

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I'm adding my two cents on the issues around remaining vigilant about Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases.  There are far fewer weekly EVD...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

The filovirus tree has been shooting wildly

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While there are not a lot of new branches, there are many, many new leaves on this growing tree. That is overwhelmingly due to the fantastic...
Friday, 12 December 2014

WHO Media Release: Sierra Leone reacts swiftly in the face of desperate need

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I am reprinting in full, with permission, what I think is a really well written "story behind the numbers". These stories provide...
Saturday, 30 August 2014

The fifth I give you...[UPDATED]

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Senegal.  According to it's Minister of Health, Awa Marie Coll Seck[1,2], a case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been imported from Gu...
Monday, 28 July 2014

Ebola West Africa numbers in context...[AMENDED]

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A quick glance at how the suspect, probable and laboratory confirmed  (susp/prob/conf)  cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) stack up in the ...
Friday, 11 April 2014

When 2 - 2 = 2: Ebola case numbers in Sierra Leone

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I've been having a little trouble following some aspects of the World Health Organization's (WHO) updates on the Zaire ebolavirus o...