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« En 1976 j'ai découvert Ebola - maintenant je crains une tragédie inimaginable »

professeur Peter Piot, directeur de la London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: « autour de juin, il est devenu clair pour moi, il y avait quelque chose de différent au sujet de cette épidémie. J'ai commencé à être vraiment inquiet "photographie : Leon Neal/AFP

theguardian.com - 4 octobre 2014
Rafaela von Bredow et Veronika Hackenbroch

... "il est clair pour nous tous : ce n'est pas juste une épidémie plus. Il s'agit d'une catastrophe humanitaire. Nous ne suffit de denrées alimentaires, des jeeps et des camions de personnel, mais aussi des spécialistes en logistique, soins. Une telle épidémie peut déstabiliser des régions entières. Je ne peux qu'espérer que nous serons en mesure de l'obtenir sous contrôle. Je n'ai vraiment jamais pensé qu'il pourrait ce faire mal"...

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Obama: U.S. Vous Musclez aéroport projections pour Ebola

mise à jour avec des informations supplémentaires (défilement ci-dessous).

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De Zeke J. Miller le 6 oct. 2014 17:24

Le Président Barack Obama a déclaré lundi que les Etats-Unis travaille sur des projections de passager supplémentaire pour les passagers aériens battant de l'Afrique de l'Ouest frappé par Ebola, deux semaines après un homme libérien infecté par la maladie sont entrés dans le pays.

Fonctionnaires « vont travailler sur les protocoles de faire des projections de passager supplémentaire à la fois source et ici aux Etats-Unis, » Obama a déclaré, adressage des journalistes après une réunion d'information sur la réponse de son administration à l'épidémie en Afrique et au maintien de la maladie ne se propage aux Etats-Unis "toutes ces choses me font confiant qu'ici aux États-Unis au moins les chances d'une éclosiond'une épidémie ici sont extraordinairement faibles. "

Le Président n'a pas donné de détails sur les nouvelles mesures de dépistage, et Dr. Tom Frieden, directeur des Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a refusé de préciser plus en détail dans une interview avec CNN, après la réunion.

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Medical Research: Ebola Therapy Protects Severely Ill Monkeys

nature.com

Thomas W. Geisbert

Nature 514, 41–43 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13746 - Published online 29 August 2014

A blend of three monoclonal antibodies has completely protected monkeys against a lethal dose of Ebola virus. Unlike other post-infection therapies, the treatment works even at advanced stages of the disease. See Article p.47

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7520/full/nature13746.html

Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp

Nature 514, 47–53 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13777
Received 05 August 2014 - Accepted 21 August 2014 - Published online 29 August 2014

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High risk Ebola could reach France and UK by end-October, scientists calculate

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Hospitalized French Nurse Released from Hospital.  ( Scroll Below)

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LONDON, Reuters - By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent   Oct. 5, 2014

Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that date.

Those numbers are based on air traffic remaining at full capacity. Assuming an 80 percent reduction in travel to reflect that many airlines are halting flights to affected regions, France's risk is still 25 percent, and Britain's is 15 percent.

"It's really a lottery," said Derek Gatherer of Britain's Lancaster University, an expert in viruses who has been tracking the epidemic - the worst Ebola outbreak in history.

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Why We Won't Have An Ebola Cure Or Vaccine For Years

UPDATE with comments from interviw with CDC Director Tom Frieden.   Scroll below.

 

huffingtonpost.com - October 2nd, 2014 - Jeffery Young

The world has known about Ebola for almost 40 years, yet there's no cure or vaccine on the market.

That could change amid worldwide attention to the ongoing outbreak of the virus in West Africa, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives already, and the first diagnosis of a patient with the disease in the United States. But not for a few more years -- at least.

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Update: Comments by CDC Director on Sunday TV interview

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/cdc-director-tom-frieden-ebola-drug-pipeline-will-be-slow-n218666


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Are Hospitals Prepared for Ebola?

cnn.com - October 1, 2014

CNN's Jake Tapper speaks to Gavin Macgregor-Skinner and Jeffery Stern. With the first Ebola diagnosis in the U.S., is the country prepared to handle a potential outbreak?

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/10/01/only-four-u-s-hospitals-prepared-for-outbreak/

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Sequence for Putting On and Removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ppe-poster.pdf

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/factsheets.html

 

     

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Why I'll risk my life for Ebola patients

Hundreds of foreign aid workers are in West Africa treating people with Ebola. One of them is Cokie van der Velde who has just flown from the UK to Liberia. She explains why she has left the safety of her home to face the deadly virus.

I was first in Liberia five weeks ago and I believe the situation is now much worse. Back then, our treatment centres had already run out of room and we were starting to put people in corridors.

In the centre, people groan and cry out - the smell of blood, diarrhoea and vomit is awful - unfortunately there is also a very pervading smell of dead bodies.

I can only leave it to your imagination to understand what a pile of bodies smells like after a week in very hot, moist surroundings - it makes you feel sick quite a lot of the time.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245149

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NHS staff are being asked to volunteer to fight Ebola outbreak

 A World Health Organization worker trains nurses to use Ebola protective gear in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the spread of Ebola is accelerating Photo: Michael Duff/APBy Rebecca Smith - 22 Sep 2014 - telegraph.co.uk

Medical leaders have appealed for NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics to volunteer to treat Ebola victims in Sierra Leone.

A letter signed by the four most senior NHS medical officers directly asks for volunteers to staff a new hospital.

British military experts working alongside charities are setting up a 12-bed unit to treat infected healthcare workers and an additional 50 bed unit for ordinary citizens infected with the deadly virus.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11110090/NHS-staff-are-being-asked-to-volunteer-to-fight-Ebola-outbreak.html

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How a Winnipeg lab became an Ebola research powerhouse

Researchers with the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg say they are optimistic that a tool to combat the Ebola virus may be on the horizon. (John Woods/Canadian Press) By Helen Branswell - The Canadian Press - Sep 21, 2014

Winnipeg is half a world away from the countries in Africa where Ebola, and its viral cousin, Marburg, occasionally slip out of their animal reservoir to start infecting and killing people, as Ebola is now doing in West Africa.

The current outbreak has infected at least 5,335 people and killed at least 2,622. To date, there has never been a case of either viral hemorrhagic fever infections within Canadian borders.

So why then is Canada's national lab an Ebola research powerhouse? Why is a facility on the edge of the Prairies, near North America's longitudinal centre, the site from whence some of the most promising Ebola research emanates?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/how-a-winnipeg-lab-became-an-ebola-research-powerhouse-1.2773397

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