Despite research into Ebola vaccines and therapeutics over the past decade, no product has been fully evaluated and approved for human use. This means that the only way to deal with this unprecedented outbreak has been to use the same basic public health and supportive care measures that were available in the past. Having an …
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“The most difficult part for a clinician is when you don’t know if the patient has Ebola or not,” said Dr. Frederique Jacquerioz at the recent American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting in New Orleans. Despite the title of her presentation ‘from the ‘Hot Zone’: A Clinician’s Perspective on Confronting Ebola Virus in …
At the launch of the 2014 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference in New Orleans, Bill Gates said the meeting was talking place at a critical moment in the history of global health — in the midst of an Ebola epidemic in a part of the world that had already been hit hard …
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A recurring question about the current Ebola outbreak is how it grew to be so large — and whether the virus has changed modes of transmission or somehow become more infectious. However, most of the experts at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Health conference held in New Orleans in early November agreed: The …
“There have been reports about Ebola survivors selling their blood on the black market in the affected countries,” one audience member from Lagos, Nigeria said at a roundtable discussion on Ebola during the recent American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in New Orleans in early November. “Is there any effort to regulate this? …
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“Coordination has been a routine failure in Ebola outbreak after Ebola outbreak,” Dr Armand Sprecher of MSF said during a roundtable discussion at the ASTMH conference in response to a question from a healthcare worker from Taiwan. She said her country would be sending a number of healthcare workers to the field soon and wanted …
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Dr. Tim Jagatic of Médecins Sans Frontières spent March and April in Guinea when the Ebola outbreak was first recognized — and returned to West Africa to fight the disease in July. “When I went to West Africa the second time, people might have thought: 1) I’m masochistic and don’t have any sense of self-preservation, …
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Ebola experts at the ASTMH conference in New Orleans concerned about the effect of Ebola on the health systems in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone — as the Ebola response has drawn physicians and nurses away from the normal care system. “A lot of the health infrastructure has collapsed in these countries. For instance, maternal …
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“The number of things that need to go right for an outbreak to be controlled is significant — a lot of working pieces are interdependent,” said Dr Armand Sprecher of Médecins Sans Frontières at the 63rd Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference this November in New Orleans. The health promoters and the …
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A new study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases confirms that HIV dual infection and HIV reinfection are common. Researchers at University of California in San Diego and colleagues used new sequencing technology and phylogenetic analyses to determine the incidence and prevalence of dual infection by more than one strain of HIV in …
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