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The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about content management and sourcing of information from Sierra Leone and bring it to the World with the proper steps.

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(task) Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Security: Implications for Developing Climate Resilient Agriculture Programs | Agrilinks

Mon, 2014-10-27 14:19 — MDMcDonald_me_com

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Congress Has Thin Legislative Record on Combating Disease Outbreaks

Mon, 2014-10-27 13:24 — mike kraft

ROLL CALL Oct. 27, 20144
By Melanie Zanona

Although Congress has publicly fretted over the threat of infectious disease pandemics, there have been few legislative attempts in the last two decades to address such health emergencies, leaving lawmakers with a limited set of policy options as they try to contain the Ebola outbreak.

Measures targeting deadly diseases have been largely crafted through the prism of bioterrorism threats, as opposed to naturally occurring outbreaks, such as swine flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

“After 9/11 and the anthrax scares, there was starting to be a lot of attention and money being pumped into public health emergency preparedness and response, but by 2008, there started to be a downturn,” said Seth Foldy, associate professor of family and community medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and former Milwaukee health commissioner. “It bumped up again after H1N1, but then the funding slide began to kick in. There hasn’t been much sustained and strategic attention on the issue.”

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Insurance companies now write Ebola exclusions into policies; offer Ebola-related products

Mon, 2014-10-27 10:43 — mike kraft

HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS WIRE Oct. 27, 2014

U.S. and British insurance companies have begun to write Ebola exclusions into their policies for hospitals, event organizers, airliners, and other businesses vulnerable to disruption from the disease.

As a result, new policies and renewals will become more expensive for firms looking to insure business travel to West Africa or to cover the risk of losses from Ebola-driven business interruptions (BI).The cost of insuring an event against Ebola, for example, would likely be triple the amount of normal cancellation insurance — if the venue was in a region not known to be affected by the virus.

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(task) Ebola in graphics: The toll of a tragedy | The Economist

Mon, 2014-10-27 09:22 — MDMcDonald_me_com

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Re: Ebola and big data: Waiting on hold

Sun, 2014-10-26 11:01 — mdmcdonald

Dear colleagues,

As many of you know, the Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance is partnering to engage simulations, network science and big data in refining the Phase II Ebola Epidemic Management Initiative. The secondary data from many sources (including cell phone data) will be particularly useful when overlaid by primary mission critical function status data from over 1000 communities throughout West Africa. It is proposed under the Phase II Ebola Epidemic Management Initiative that the data from the 30 highest priority Resilience Capacity Zones within and around the most dangerous Ebola-affected areas in Liberia and Guinea be used over the next two months to optimize intervention strategies in converting Resilience Capacity Zones into Ebola-resistant Areas and Ebola-free Areas.

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Most New Yorkers Aren't Freaking Out About Ebola, So You Shouldn't Either

Sat, 2014-10-25 01:36 — MDMcDonald_me_com

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Most New Yorkers Aren't Freaking Out About Ebola, So You Shouldn't Either

NEW YORK -- As news of New York City's first confirmed Ebola case spreads through the city, New Yorkers -- even those at the hospital where the patient is being treated, who rode the same subway lines he traveled on and who live in his building -- are remaining markedly calm.

"I'm not really scared," Neil Bridges, an architectural surveyor riding the A train Friday morning, told The Huffington Post. He held up his backpack, which contained a package of wet wipes in the side pocket. "I've worked in a lot of dirty buildings. I always keep clean."

Zachary Hasselbring, a New York University student also on the A train, agreed. "I think everybody's overreacting a bit," he said. "It's blown out of proportion."

Meanwhile, it was business as usual at Bellevue Hospital, where the patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, is currently being treated. People milled about, talking and laughing, while doctors and nurses discussed their lunch and weekend plans.

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(task) Toddler With Ebola In Mali May Have Infected Many People: WHO

Fri, 2014-10-24 21:53 — MDMcDonald_me_com

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Toddler With Ebola In Mali May Have Infected Many People: WHO

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Many people in Mali are at high risk of catching Ebola because the toddler who brought the disease to the country was bleeding from her nose as she traveled on a bus from Guinea, the World Health Organization warned Friday.