Just in case you thought that CDC and federal regulators had things under control regarding research on microorganisms that can be used in bioterrorism, think again. There were an average of 4 reported escapes each week over the 5 years that ended with 2012. From USA Today, “The only thing unusual about the CDC’s recent…
I noticed that 2 old posts of mine about the laws and regulations governing public health emergencies were getting a lot of attention this week. I thought I would post them again, as they may soon be relevant here, and are already relevant to Africans faced with quarantines, cordon sanitaires and other legal and physical…
Virus Res. 2014 Jun 12;189C:254-261. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.06.001. A highly immunogenic fragment derived from Zaire Ebola virus glycoprotein elicits effective neutralizing antibody. Wang Y1, Liu Z1, Dai Q2. In order to produce polyvalent vaccines based on single rVSV vector, we investigated the immunogenicity, antibody neutralizing activity, and antigenic determinant domain of Zaire Ebola‘s fragment MFL (aa 393-556) that contains furin…
According to the NYT, there are “243,000 international travelers to United States airports each day… including an average of 679 from Nigeria and 145 from the other three countries, (Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone) according to the C.D.C.”
This is the site where you will get up to date information on the Ebola outbreak from MSF, which is providing the most detailed information from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Despite an estimated 69% death rate, Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) doctors and nurses have not come down with the disease. MSF has 676 staffers working on the ground in Africa. CDC has 31 to help with case-finding, but none treating victims. WHO says it has 141 people in West Africa sent…
Go to: ABSTRACT This 2008 article (available free in full text here) described a very promising Ebola vaccine from USAMRIID: Clin Vaccine Immunol. Mar 2008; 15(3): 460–467. Published online Jan 23, 2008. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00431-07 Vaccine to Confer to Nonhuman Primates Complete Protection Against Multistrain Ebola and Marburg Virus Infection Dana L. Swenson,1 Danher Wang,2 Min Luo,2 Kelly L. Warfield,1 Jan Woraratanadharm,2 David…
Since Ebola first was identified in 1976, there have been at least a dozen outbreaks and at least 5 strains have been identified. Serologic tests for Ebola have been available since 1977. The US did not ignore Ebola. It posed a threat as a natural illness, and posed a different threat as a potential biological…
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