Canadians leading anti-Ebola research

J Rastogi - 2014 - Can Med Assoc
The virus has infected 1093 people and killed 660 in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia
since the outbreak began in January, according to a July 20 tally by the World Health …

World struggles to stop Ebola: greater international assistance is needed to quell the epidemic, say health officials

EC Hayden - Nature, 2014 - go.gale.com
Dan Kelly felt as if he were entering a war zone when he arrived at Connaught Hospital on
19 August. His friend Modupeh Cole, the physician in charge of the Ebola isolation ward at …

Ebola: too far or so close?

P Torpiano, D Pace - 2014 - um.edu.mt
The year 2014 has witnessed the escalation of the largest ever Ebola outbreak which started
in Guinea, and later spread to other countries in West Africa. The associated disease burden …

[PDF][PDF] The largest Ebola outbreak-what have we learned so far

D Das, PJ Guerin, S Leroy, AA Sayeed… - Journal of …, 2015 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus infection in West Africa is the largest on record in terms
of the unprecedented number of reported cases (n= 18,603 at Dec 2014) and deaths (n …

[CITATION][C] Ebola Virus Is Outpacing Efforts to Control It, World Health Body Warns

A Nossiter, A Cowell - The New York Times, 2014 - go.gale.com
ABUJA, Nigeria--In an ominous warning as fatalities mounted in West Africa from the worst
known outbreak of the Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday …

As Ebola epidemic begins to slow, trials of drugs and vaccines speed up

BM Kuehn - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Ebola epidemic in West Africa, efforts to develop therapies and vaccines against the virus
are ramping up. In late January, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) …

[HTML][HTML] Tackling the Ebola Epidemic

L Gostin - JAMA Forum Archive, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa is now out of control, but it shouldn't have come to
this. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a preventable disease, but the current epidemic is …

Ebola virus disease

J Jin - JAMA, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
How Is Ebola Spread? The Ebola virus was initially spread to humans through contact with
animals such as monkeys, chimpanzees, and bats. In some cases, the Ebola virus can be …

[PDF][PDF] Ebola: Lessons from the latest pandemic

CB Silver, EL Leon, SA Zaino, ED Mandel - Clinician Reviews, 2015 - cdn.mdedge.com
In 1918, influenza virus—in the most deadly pandemic in the past century—killed an
estimated 20 to 50 million people worldwide. 1 A more recent example of a devastating …

[CITATION][C] WHO Director-General addresses UN security council on Ebola

M Chan - World Health Organization, September, 2014