Ebola Vaccine Appears Safe, Effective

Tests of an experimental Ebola vaccine have found that 100 percent of vaccinated people mounted a promising immune response and incurred no serious side effects, according to results published this morning in The New England Journal of Medicine. A large, international group of researchers report that between two studies, all 200 subjects in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany who were given the recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine (rVSV) vaccine developed an immune response that should be effective in warding off future infection.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/ebola-vaccine-found-to-be-safe-effective-phase-1-trial/389399/

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We proudly learn that our Swedish Global Health ambassador Anders Nordström leaves Sweden to become WHO representative in Sierra Leone :-)
https://twitter.com/HansRosling/status/583290451907727360

Ebola’s Newest Casualty: Health Care

Here in Liberia, the goal of zero Ebola cases is tantalizingly close. Only one new case has been recorded since 19 February, and 13 of the country’s 15 counties have not reported any new cases for over 42 days. But Ebola’s impact will be felt long after the last case has been treated.

As the battle against Ebola continues, the threat of outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other vaccine-preventable diseases remains high. Given the mobility of Liberia’s population, the danger is that these diseases could spread with the same devastating rapidity that Ebola did.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/03/ebola-s-newest-casualty-health-care.html

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Dallas hospital’s owner says Ebola nurse Nina Pham’s lawsuit should be dismissed

Texas Health Resources filed a response Friday that “generally denies the allegations” in nurse Nina Pham’s lawsuit that poor training and preparation caused her to contract Ebola while caring for a patient.

The hospital system also denied violating Pham’s privacy after she became a patient.

Pham contracted the disease in October at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Hospital while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Duncan, who contracted the disease in his native Liberia, died Oct. 8.

http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20150403-dallas-hospitals-owner-says-ebola-nurse-nina-phams-lawsuit-should-be-dismissed.ece

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Dallas hospital’s owner says Ebola nurse Nina Pham’s lawsuit should be dismissed

Texas Health Resources filed a response Friday that “generally denies the allegations” in nurse Nina Pham’s lawsuit that poor training and preparation caused her to contract Ebola while caring for a patient.

The hospital system also denied violating Pham’s privacy after she became a patient.

Pham contracted the disease in October at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Hospital while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Duncan, who contracted the disease in his native Liberia, died Oct. 8.

http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20150403-dallas-hospitals-owner-says-ebola-nurse-nina-phams-lawsuit-should-be-dismissed.ece

Sorry, but yeah... right... dismiss it... NOT.

Hospitals nationwide were warned well in advance of this incident by the CDC and other Government authorities.

If they failed to provide suitable protective equipment and/or failed to adequately train her in it's proper use, well... It is on the hospital. And failing to protect her privacy violates HIPPA.

Yep, it is on Dallas Presbyterian to atone for their sins in this matter. Ms. Pham is gonna be quite rich soon, in my opinion.

Dallas hospital’s owner says Ebola nurse Nina Pham’s lawsuit should be dismissed

Texas Health Resources filed a response Friday that “generally denies the allegations” in nurse Nina Pham’s lawsuit that poor training and preparation caused her to contract Ebola while caring for a patient.

The hospital system also denied violating Pham’s privacy after she became a patient.

Pham contracted the disease in October at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Hospital while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Duncan, who contracted the disease in his native Liberia, died Oct. 8.

http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20150403-dallas-hospitals-owner-says-ebola-nurse-nina-phams-lawsuit-should-be-dismissed.ece

Sorry, but yeah... right... dismiss it... NOT.

Hospitals nationwide were warned well in advance of this incident by the CDC and other Government authorities.

If they failed to provide suitable protective equipment and/or failed to adequately train her in it's proper use, well... It is on the hospital. And failing to protect her privacy violates HIPPA.

Yep, it is on Dallas Presbyterian to atone for their sins in this matter. Ms. Pham is gonna be quite rich soon, in my opinion.

Three things come to mind. Her injury obviously happen on the job. There is no way the hospital is not paying that under workers compensation, including any future wages lost, accommodations, etc. Since her name leaked, HIPPA was violated by someone. No way their general liability insurance isn't paying a pretty penny for that. If she can show that the Hospital was negligent in training her or giving her proper equipment then the sky is the limit on damages, pain and suffering, loss of companionship, etc.

Yes, I think she is going to have a very big tax bill soon. I also seriously doubt there won't be an offer at the insurance policy limit coming soon.

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Sierra Leone's Kailahun district records first Ebola case in months

By Umaru Fofana

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said on Saturday.

A 9-month-old boy tested positive for Ebola after dying in Kailahun, the district on Guinea's border that recorded Sierra Leone's first Ebola case last May and was for months the epicenter of the crisis.
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http://news.yahoo.com/eastern-sierra-leone-records-first-ebola-case-months-221312992.html

Sad. The article has a theory on how it has returned, but I wonder about it. In my opinion, it might maybe be a fresh case.

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Ebola death reported in Sierra Leone region where epidemic originated


Ebola has struck again in the district where the epidemic originated in Sierra Leone, dashing hopes of a recovery after more than three months during which no cases had been reported.

The ministry of health and sanitation confirmed a case of the virus on Saturday in the eastern Kailahun district of the country. A nine-month-old boy was tested positive for Ebola after his death, authorities said.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/05/ebola-death-reported-in-sierra-leone-region-where-epidemic-originated

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An Ebola doctor’s answer to life-or-death question of who to admit for treatment

The first rule of Ebola treatment was distance, doctor Adam Levine knew. That meant standing back from the woman having a seizure on the floor of the clinic in rural Liberia where he was volunteering. It meant wearing a stifling protective suit that limited his ability to work long hours, even when there was so much to be done. And it meant conducting triage interviews from behind a more than four-foot-wide barrier, hoping that questions and visual assessments would be enough to distinguish those desperately in need of Ebola treatment from those who ought to be sent elsewhere.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/06/an-ebola-doctors-answer-to-the-life-or-death-question-of-who-should-be-admitted-for-treatment/

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American Ebola patient improves to good condition

Officials say an American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone has improved to good condition at a federal hospital.

The National Institutes of Health said Tuesday that the patient had been upgraded from fair condition. He was in critical condition at one point.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/american-ebola-patient-improves-to-good-condition

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Sierra Leone says Kailahun Ebola case report was mistaken

(Reuters) - Sierra Leone said on Tuesday that it had mistakenly reported an Ebola positive case in Kailahun, a former hotspot for the virus which has not seen a case for nearly four months.

A nine-month-old baby was pronounced Ebola positive last week but was later found to have died from other causes, according to National Ebola Response Centre spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/07/us-health-ebola-leone-idUSKBN0MY1PM20150407

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2 New Ebola Vaccines Pass Important Early Test, Researchers Say

Two new Ebola vaccines have passed an important test, protecting monkeys against the strain of the virus responsible for the current deadly outbreak, researchers reported on Wednesday. Only one dose was needed, and there were no apparent side effects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/health/2-new-ebola-vaccines-pass-important-early-test-researchers-say.html?_r=0

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Liberia names new health minister as it seeks to beat Ebola

(Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has named new ministers for health and education as her government seeks to bring an end to the Ebola outbreak in the West African country and focus on reconstruction.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/08/uk-liberia-politics-idUKKBN0MZ1H920150408

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Ebola news blackout lifted as second wave of Ebola victims being shipped to America

A total of 18 people potentially exposed to the Ebola virus while working in Africa have been sent back to the United States for health monitoring, news media have reported.

All or nearly all of the people exposed were working for the nonprofit Partners in Health, which has been working to help end the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. When one of the healthcare workers contracted the disease, the others were potentially exposed while helping care for him before he was sent back to the United States for treatment.

http://www.naturalnews.com/049293_Ebola_victims_news_blackout_America.html

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Ebola outbreak: Lowest new cases since May

Liberia has had no new cases of Ebola for five weeks and Guinea saw less than half the cases of the week before.

Liberia and Sierra Leone have started decommissioning some treatment centres, but the WHO has warned that there has been an increase in unsafe burials in Guinea which could lead to more cases.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32232576

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Ebola Situation Report - 8 April 2015
http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-8-april-2015
Ebola latest news from WHO.
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Ebola outbreak: Lowest new cases since May

Liberia has had no new cases of Ebola for five weeks and Guinea saw less than half the cases of the week before.

Liberia and Sierra Leone have started decommissioning some treatment centres, but the WHO has warned that there has been an increase in unsafe burials in Guinea which could lead to more cases.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32232576

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The Fight Against Ebola Is Making Incredible Progress, But It's Not Over Yet

A little over a year ago, on March 25, 2014, Guinea alerted the World Health Organization about a rapidly spreading outbreak of Ebola in the country.

In the following months, the epidemic grew into Ebola's worst on record. More than 10,500 people succumbed to the disease and 24,000 were infected, most of them in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. At the hight of the crisis -- when West Africa recored more than a hundred new cases each week and cities like New York and Madrid feared an outbreak -- Ebola ruled the front pages of media outlets around the world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/ebola-not-over_n_7019072.html

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Ebola updates:

WHO: Ebola survivors at risk of eye and joint problems

Many Ebola survivors are likely to face further health issues including eye and joint problems, the World Health Organization has warned.

And a recent case may have caught Ebola through sexual contact with someone who had recovered, experts said.

The WHO has decided the crisis still constitutes as a public health emergency of international concern.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32250515

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