Global | CDC – Q&A: Estimating the future number of cases in the Ebola...
Summary This week’s MMWR, Estimating the Future Number of Cases in the Ebola Epidemic—Liberia and Sierra Leone, 2014–2015, estimates the future number of cases if current trends continue. The MMWR...
View ArticleWest Africa | Ebola situation report from WHO – 6263 cases with 2917 deaths...
OVERVIEW The total number of probable, confirmed and suspected cases in the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was 6263, with 2917 deaths, as at the end of 21 September 2014....
View ArticleWest Africa | Ebola workers at risk: the tragic reality of the Ebola response
Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in March 2014, medical and non-medical staff from the health ministries of the affected countries, as well as the NGOs supporting them, have...
View ArticleGlobal | Updated ECDC risk assessment for Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Since the start of the outbreak affecting four West African countries there have been more than 6 500 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), of which more than 3 000 people are reported to have died,...
View ArticleWest Africa | Ebola update to 1 October 2014 – 7178 cases with 3338 deaths
OVERVIEW The total number of probable, confirmed and suspected cases in the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa reported up to 28 September 2014 is 7178, with 3338 deaths....
View ArticleGlobal | Update on experimental Ebola vaccines from WHO
WHO consultation on Ebola vaccines From 29–30 September, WHO organized an expert consultation to assess the status of work to test and eventually license two candidate Ebola vaccines. More than 70...
View ArticleUSA | For The Record – CDC Telebriefing: CDC update on first Ebola case...
CDC Telebriefing: CDC update on first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States, 10-02-2014 Thursday, October 2, 2014, 1:00 p.m. ET OPERATOR: Welcome, and thank you all for standing by. I’d like to...
View ArticleFrance | Le gouvernement intensifie l’engagement pour soutenir la Guinée face...
L’épidémie de maladie à virus Ebola continue de s’aggraver en Guinée, au Sierra Leone et au Libéria. Conformément à l’annonce du Président de la République, Laurent Fabius, ministre des Affaires...
View ArticleGlobal | WHO: What we know about transmission of the Ebola virus among humans
The Ebola virus is transmitted among humans through close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit. The Ebola virus has also been...
View ArticleGlobal | Ebola update – 8033 cases with 3865 deaths to date – 8 Oct 2014
The total number of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases in the West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reported up to the end of 5 October 2014 (epidemiological week 40) is 8033 with...
View ArticleFrance | Marisol Touraine renforce la préparation de la France face à Ebola
10 Oct 2014 Marisol TOURAINE, ministre des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes, a rappelé aujourd’hui le dispositif de préparation de la France pour détecter au plus vite et prendre...
View ArticleEurope | ECDC publishes a technical report on entry and exit screening...
Today, ECDC publishes a technical report reviewing the existing evidence on entry and exit screening in order to support decision making by EU public health authorities. As the epidemic of Ebola virus...
View ArticleGlobal | WHO Director-General says Ebola threatens the very survival of...
Dr Margaret Chan Director-General of the World Health Organization (delivered in her absence by Ian Smith, Executive Director of the Director-General’s Office) Keynote address to the Regional Committee...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom | Public Health England: Enhanced Ebola screening process
Public Health England (PHE) is helping to roll out enhanced screening for Ebola starting at Heathrow, then Gatwick and St Pancras (Eurostar), in passengers that Border Force officers identify as having...
View ArticleEurope | ECDC issues updated Rapid Risk Assessment on Ebola
There have now been 8 397 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), including more than 4 000 deaths, which have been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in affected countries (Guinea, Liberia,...
View ArticleFrance | Renforce la préparation face à Ebola
Marisol TOURAINE, ministre des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des femmes, a rappelé aujourd’hui le dispositif de préparation de la France pour détecter au plus vite et prendre en charge...
View ArticleFor The Record | Transcript of CDC Press Briefing on Ebola response, 10-15-2014
OPERATOR: Welcome and thank you for holding, I would like to inform participants your lines are on a listen only mode until the question and answer portion. To ask a question at that time, please press...
View ArticleGlobal | Ebola update – 8997 cases with 4493 deaths, 10-15-2014
A total of 8997 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in seven affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the...
View ArticleGlobal | WHO Ebola update – 9936 cases with 4877 deaths
A total of 9936 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in five affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of...
View ArticleMali | Health officials confirm first case of Ebola in two-year-old girl...
Mali’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s first case of Ebola virus disease. The Ministry received positive laboratory results, from PCR testing, on Thursday and informed WHO immediately....
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