Ebola News

• Ivory Coast Ebola Patient Recovers, Beginning Countdown to End of Outbreak A woman in Ivory Coast who earlier this month tested positive for the Ebola virus has recovered, allowing the country to begin a 42-day countdown to declaring an end to the outbreak, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, August 25, 2021
• Humanitarians Push to Vaccinate in Conflict Zones Pandemic ceasefires offer an opportunity to expand vaccination efforts, experts say. But negotiation is tricky.
  Undark, August 25, 2021
• Ivory Coast Begins Ebola Vaccinations After Case Confirmed in Abidjan Ivory Coast began vaccinating health workers against Ebola in the commercial capital Abidjan on Monday after a case of the deadly virus was confirmed over the weekend.
  Reuters Health Information, August 16, 2021
• Death Reported From Ebola-Like Marburg Virus in West Africa A deadly case of the Marburg virus has been identified in Guinea, the first time in the West Africa region.
  WebMD Health News, August 13, 2021
• Guinea Records Probable Case of Marburg Virus A probable case of Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, has been detected in Guinea, the health ministry said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2021
• What Will History Say About COVID? All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we don't — will write the pandemic story.
  Knowable Magazine, August 02, 2021
• WHO to Issue Findings on Congo Sexual Abuse Investigation by End August WHO said an independent investigation into allegations against WHO aid workers of sexual abuse in Democratic Republic of Congo should issue findings by the end of August.
  Reuters Health Information, May 28, 2021
• Congo Declares End of Ebola Outbreak That Killed Six The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them.
  Reuters Health Information, May 03, 2021
• Novel Assay Promising for Detection of Ebola in Low-Resource Settings A new, highly sensitive point-of-care immunoassay called D4 may facilitate earlier detection of Ebola outbreaks, particularly in low-resource settings, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, April 12, 2021
• How Some COVID-19 Vaccines Could Cause Rare Blood Clots Regulatory agencies in the US and around the world are scrambling to determine the risk of potentially lethal but rare blood clots linked to adenovirus vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, April 14, 2021
• Ebola Cluster Traced to Vaccinated Taxi Driver Who Appeared to Recover This is the story of a taxi driver, a vaccine that may not live up to its billing, and a treatment that seemed to save him from death, only to set the stage for his infection to spread to 91 others in six communities over 4 months.
  Reuters Health Information, March 31, 2021
• Don't Count Out Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Battle 'We created all this enthusiasm, and then these studies came out and they say this stuff didn't work in the first place,' said Dr Michael Busch. But that sentiment is by no means universal.
  Kaiser Health News, March 22, 2021
• Remdesivir Reduces Ebola Virus That Lingers in Semen Remdesivir reduces the presence of Ebola virus RNA in the semen of Ebola survivors, according to results of the PREVAIL IV study.
  Reuters Health Information, March 17, 2021
• Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.
  Undark, March 17, 2021
• Ebola Survivor May Have Started Latest Outbreak -- 5 Years Later A genetic analysis found that the current outbreak likely started with a survivor of the 2014-2016 outbreak, whose testes harbored dormant virus. The news has potentially serious public health implications.
  Medscape Medical News, March 15, 2021
• How Wikipedia Fought COVID Misinformation Some illustrious medical publications were foiled by dubious data in the pandemic publishing flurry. How did the online encyclopedia avoid these pitfalls?
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2021
• WHO Sees Ebola Risk as 'Very High' for Guinea's Neighbours World Health Organization officials said on Friday the risk of an Ebola outbreak spreading from Guinea to its neighbours was 'very high' and that some neighbouring countries were not prepared for outbreaks or for future vaccination campaigns.
  Reuters Health Information, March 05, 2021
• CDC Adopts Rules for DRC, Guinea Travelers Over Ebola Concerns The CDC has issued new public health requirements for US visitors who have recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or Guinea to address Ebola concerns.
  Reuters Health Information, March 02, 2021
• Three New Ebola Cases Confirmed in Congo, Two in Guinea Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing to 11 the number of cases since authorities declared a resurgence of the virus last month.
  Reuters Health Information, March 01, 2021
• AstraZeneca, Sputnik Vaccines Face Hurdles With Annual COVID Shots Vaccines from AstraZeneca, Gamaleya Institute and J&J fight the coronavirus with another virus, leaving scientists concerned the shots may lose potency if annual inoculations become necessary.
  Reuters Health Information, February 26, 2021