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Ibuprofen 'Disables' Ebola Virus

Sat, 2016-07-02 13:25 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Nature - Toremifene interacts with and destabilizes the Ebola virus glycoprotein

bbc.com - by James Gallagher - June 30, 2016

The painkiller ibuprofen and the cancer drug toremifene can disable the Ebola virus, say researchers.

Scientists used the UK's national synchrotron facility - Diamond Light Source - to analyse the virus in incredible detail.

They revealed the two drugs could bind to the crucial part of Ebola that the virus needs to infect cells.

However, the team warns this is just a starting point and more effective drugs need to be researched.

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Toremifene interacts with and destabilizes the Ebola virus glycoprotein
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/subject.html?code=326

Toremifene interacts with and destabilizes the Ebola virus glycoprotein
http://www.nature.com/subjects/ebola-virus

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Togo Prexy Draws Up Post-Ebola Program For ECOWAS

Fri, 2016-06-24 06:00 — Mohamed S

-President Sirleaf Discloses

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Alaskai Moore Johnson, Observer Health Correspondent

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assuring ECOWAS Commission President Marcel Alain De Souza (2nd from right), she and her colleagues’ support to his Commission on Friday, June 17, 2016

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has disclosed that her Togolese colleague, President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, has been given the task of drawing up a post-Ebola plan for the ECOWAS region.

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Researchers Develop Model that Predicts Outbreaks of Zoonotic Diseases

Thu, 2016-06-16 19:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Spatial distribution of simulated LAS spill-over events across its endemic region in western Africa for (a) present day, and (b) projected for 2070 under a medium climate and full land cover change scenario. Values represent the expected number of spill-over events per grid cell per year, and are represented on a linear color scale where green is all simulations and grey zero. Axis labels indicate degrees, in a World Geodetic System 84 projection. Filled black circles represent locations of historic LAS outbreaks. Credit: Redding et al. UCL

CLICK HERE - Predicting disease outbreaks using environmental changes

sciencedaily.com - June 13, 2016

A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases -- those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika -- based on changes in climate, population growth and land use has been developed by a team of researchers.

CLICK HERE -UCL - Predicting disease outbreaks using environmental changes

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WHO - Yellow Fever Situation Report - 9 June 2016

Mon, 2016-06-13 13:54 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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A yellow fever outbreak was detected in Luanda, Angola late in December 2015. The first cases were confirmed by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa on 19 January 2016 and by the Institut Pasteur Dakar (IP-D) on 20 January. Subsequently, a rapid increase in the number of cases has been observed.

CLICK HERE - FULL SITUATION REPORT AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

CLICK HERE - WHO - Yellow Fever

CLICK HERE - reliefweb - Angola

CLICK HERE - ECDC - Epidemiological update: Outbreak of yellow fever in Angola

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Conakry: Presentation of the Regional Response Team

Thu, 2016-06-09 15:50 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Conakry : présentation de l’équipe régionale de riposte - La France en Guinée et en Sierra Leone

ambafrance-gn.org - 06/06/2016

http://www.ambafrance-gn.org/Conakry-presentation-de-l-equipe-regionale-de-riposte

Translation to English via Google Translate follows . . .

Conakry: presentation of the regional response team

The project to support the establishment of eight regional teams versatile alerting and response to epidemics (PREPARE) is to create in each of the seven administrative regions of Guinea and to Conakry, a regional team responsible for early detection and prompt treatment of all diseases with epidemic potential.

June 4, 2016 at the People's Palace, the eighth regional team alert and response to epidemics (ERARE), was deployed for the first time in the presence of the Ambassador of France in Guinea and Sierra Leone, Bertrand Cochery , the Prime Minister of Guinea, Mamady Youla, delegated ambassador of the European Union, Gerardus Gielen, and Sébastien Mosneron-Dupin, CEO of Expertise France.

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Mysterious Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak Stumps Disease Detectives in South Sudan

Mon, 2016-06-06 20:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - WHO - Disease Outbreak News - Haemorrhagic fever syndrome – South Sudan - 19 May 2016

npr.org - Michaeleen Doucleff - May 31, 2016

The last time, we heard about a "mysterious hemorrhagic fever" in a country, it was February 2014. The outbreak was in Guinea. And by the time doctors had pinpointed the culprit, Ebola was spiraling out of control in West Africa.

The situation in South Sudan today is a far cry from that in West Africa a few years ago. But it's still concerning, the World Health Organization said.

So far, there have been 51 cases — including 10 deaths — from an unknown disease in the northern part of South Sudan. The main symptoms of the disease are similar to those seen with Ebola: unexplained bleeding, fever, fatigue, headache and vomiting.

But the culprit definitely isn't Ebola.

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World Health Organization Declares End of Ebola Virus in Guinea

Wed, 2016-06-01 16:21 — davidmc

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Republic of Guinea Ebola-free today.

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G7 Points to Need for WHO Reforms, Citing Lessons Learned From Ebola

Fri, 2016-05-27 15:36 — davidmc

ISE-SHIMA (Japan), (Sputnik) – The recent Ebola outbreak claimed the lives of over 11,000 people, according to WHO estimates.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that Ebola virus flare-ups would happen in 2016 despite the fact that all known chains of Ebola transmission had been stopped in West Africa.

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Disease Evolution: How New Illnesses Emerge When We Change How We Live

Fri, 2016-05-27 12:56 — davidmc

Humans have been “acquiring” infectious diseases from animals (zoonotic diseases) since we first started hunting wild game on the African savannahs. Indeed, nearly 60% of bugs that infect humans originated in animals.

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Beautiful New Images of Ebola Virus and Other Pathogens

Fri, 2016-05-27 12:28 — davidmc

When I told her that I wanted to major in microbiology, my best friend from childhood responded, “Are you sure you want to look in a microscope all day?”

But, as it turned out, a lot of microbiologists don’t use microscopes very often. I was one of them. The reason is because a substantial proportion of modern microbiology research uses the tools of molecular biology, for which microscopes are not needed.

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