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"William Gallaher, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discovered a fragment of an Ebola virus protein that is toxic to cells and may contribute to infection and illness. The findings were published online January 20, 2015, in the open access journal, Viruses."
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"Liberians want the nation’s only crematorium, where Ebola victims’ bodies were incinerated from August to December, permanently shut as infection rates slow and because of concern the complex is a threat to their health.
Residents of Boys Town in Margibi County, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the capital, Monrovia, also want the government to remove bones of victims stockpiled in drums at the crematorium, Tibelrosa Tarponweh, a community spokesman, said in a Jan. 9 interview. "
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"As is the case with virus, researchers are apprehensive that the genetic makeup of Ebola in West Africa has americares ebola picundergone several mutations that could potentially make new drugs ineffective to treat the deadly virus.
“The (Ebola) virus mutates rapidly,” Jeffrey Kugelman of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) said in a study. “And it’s an ongoing concern,” Xinhua quoted him as saying."
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"A plane passenger who had recently traveled to an "Ebola-affected country" does not have the virus and was released from the hospital, according to a statement from the New Jersey Department of Health.
The health care worker was hospitalized after a flight landed at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The passenger was kept overnight at Hackensack University Medical Center for further evaluation "in an abundance of caution," spokeswoman Nancy Radwin said."
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"Beds are seen inside an Ebola treatment unit at the main hospital of Yopougon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, October 25, 2014. The unit is part of the government's preparatory measures against the virus.The Royal Free Hospital in London announced that U.K. Nurse Pauline Cafferkey is no longer critically ill due to Ebola.
The hospital released an official statement about Cafferkey's condition. The nurse showed signs of improvement but has remained in the isolation room for further treatment.
Read more: http://www.christianpost.com/news/uk-nurse-pauline-cafferkeys-condition-improves-after-being-critically-ill-with-ebola-132877/#ixzz3PTe4U8o6 "
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"There is a side to the Ebola crisis that, perhaps understandably, has received little media attention: the threat it poses to our nearest cousins, the great apes of Africa. At this moment in time Ebola is the single greatest threat to the survival of gorillas and chimpanzees. The virus is even more deadly for other great apes as it is for humans, with mortality rates approximately 95% for gorillas and 77% for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Current estimates suggest a third of the world's gorillas and chimpanzees have died from Ebola since the 1990's
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"United Nations officials say new cases of Ebola in West Africa have been decreasing.
David Nabarro, who serves as U.N. special envoy for the Ebola response, said that diagnoses have been dropping in the three most affected countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
“And the outbreak feels different now. It’s no longer a single outbreak spreading from a central point,” Nabarro said during a U.N. briefing. “It’s a collection of micro-outbreaks, each with its own character and specific needs.”
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"NEW DELHI: Health ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the 35-year-old patient, who died at AIIMS due to excessive internal bleeding was not infected by Ebola.According to AIIMS authorities, the patient appeared to have been suffering from Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), another disease caused by a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus).
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"With Ebola still raging in Sierra Leone, a small sliver of hope has emerged: female genital mutilation has halted. Could this be the beginning of the end for the dangerous procedure?
The government of Sierra Leone, in effort to stop the continued spread of Ebola, has placed a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). As silver linings go, it’s an unsettling triumph."
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"A health care worker returning from Sierra Leone who had been quarantined in New Jersey as a suspected Ebola case has been discharged after testing negative for the virus, according to a statement from Hackensack University Medical Center. "
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"Scientists have discovered several mutations in the Ebola virus responsible for West Africa’s deadly outbreak that could make leading treatments less effective, according to new research published Tuesday in the …"
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"New Delhi, Jan 21: A man who was admitted to AIIMS yesterday amid fears that he had contracted Ebola, died today morning due to excessive internal bleeding even as doctors said it was unlikely that he was infected …"
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"Despite decreasing cases in West Africa, the Ebola outbreak still poses a global health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the WHO convened its fourth emergency …"
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"Scientists investigated why Ebola virus is so deadly when it spreads from animals to humans and then from human-to-human contact. The research team looked at the Zaire Ebola strain in an animal system to understand how it gains strength. This virus is ..."
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"MONTREAL - A patient at a hospital in Quebec's Lanaudiere region has tested negative for Ebola, Quebec public health officials confirmed Wednesday. The test results came back just a day after the patient was placed in isolation after informing authorities ... "
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They know this how? If they can't keep 3 stowaways off the ship, then they can't keep anything off.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Bring Out Your Dead
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...