Showing posts with label West Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Africa. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Congratulations to Guinea for defeating its Ebola virus disease epidemic!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!! After a very long and painful battle with many, many losses, Guinea has stopped the Ebola virus epidemic that began there...
Saturday, 23 May 2015

Guinea EVD cases rise - but not like they have before...

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Edited for clarity 24MAY2015 AEST The uptick in cases this week from, in particular, Guinea interrupted what was looking promisingly like ...
Monday, 23 February 2015

Transmission of Ebola viruses: What we know and jumping the black swan

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Last week a review was released entitled Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know . The review, which is listed i...
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...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

Case number changes between Ebola virus disease reports...

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This is one of my favourite charts for following the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa because it shows how things are changing fr...
Sunday, 31 August 2014

Ebola: Blood, sweat and tears...

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This post follows up the recent one on convalescent semen being able to harbour infectious Ebola virus (EBOV; although I am not aware of an...
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, 25 August 2014

The battle of Ebola gains a second front...the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; formerly Zaire) [UPDATE #3]

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So there are three reasons for this post.  It may be a little while before we get solid confirmed information from the DRC and I think map...
Thursday, 21 August 2014

Ebola virus in semen is the real deal.... [UPDATED]

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola virus disease factsheet notes that ebolaviruses may be transmitted via the semen of a male who is ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Protect the healthcare giver>>save lives>>stop Ebola virus disease

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Updated 061014 I live in Australia. I have clean water on tap. Reliable electricity to burn. Internet access. A green garden. A lawn. A ...
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, 4 July 2014

Ebola virus disease (EVD) 2014 West African outbreak..

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I will update this static page (link won't change so you can bookmark it) with the 2014 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) numbers a...