Africa

abcnews.go.com - par Katie Moisse - 28 août 2014

scientifiques américains commencera à tester un vaccin contre le virus d'Ebola chez l'homme la semaine prochaine, a annoncé aujourd'hui les autorités sanitaires. Mais cela pourrait prendre 11 mois pour savoir si le vaccin est sûr comme péage le virus en Afrique de l'Ouest ne cesse d'augmenter...

Doctors work in a laboratory on collected samples of the Ebola virus at the Centre for Disease Control

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Sarah Sedghi- 29 Aug 2014

. . . An Australian doctor working in Nigeria says the community is on edge and authorities are doing what they can to ensure the outbreak doesn't escalate further. . .

. . . SARAH SEDGHI: Dr Gavin MacGregor-Skinner has just travelled to Nigeria from his base in the United States to help authorities prepare in case the outbreak worsens.

GAVIN MACGREGOR-SKINNER: A lot of people are saying within their communities that if you put me in the hospital, you put me there to die.

He says the community is afraid.

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Catharine Paddock PhD - 29 August 2014 - medicalnewstoday.com

An international research team has rapidly sequenced 99 Ebola virus genomes collected in the 2014 outbreak. The team, including members from the Broad Institute and Harvard University in the US and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, hopes the findings will help multidisciplinary, international efforts to understand and contain the unprecedented epidemic that is growing in West Africa.

The researchers report their findings in the journal Science. Five team members died of Ebola virus disease before the manuscript was published, and their fellow authors honor their memory in the study report.

The 99 genomes came from 78 patients diagnosed with Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone during the first 24 days of the outbreak. Some patients gave more than one sample, allowing the team to see how the virus changed over the course of a single infection.

en mouvement : ce modèle de modèles de transport régional Afrique de l'Ouest a été construit en utilisant, entre autres sources, les données de téléphonie mobile pour le Sénégal, libéré par l'opérateur de téléphonie mobile Orange.

données de mobilité d'un support de téléphone mobile africain pourraient aider les chercheurs à recommander où de concentrer les efforts de soins de santé.

par David Talbot sur 22 août 2014