Does anybody know if the latest cases have been because the virus has mutated and getting resistant to the drugs ?

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FDA panel to discuss Ebola vaccine development in May
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said an advisory panel will discuss the development of Ebola vaccines, days after an American health worker was flown back after being tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone.
The federal health regulator would discuss the development of vaccines on May 12, it announced on its website on Wednesday.

The FDA.
Then it will take several years before an Ebola vaccine will be approved.
Have you read FDA requirements for an approvment?
I havn't but in manufacturing drugs I have.
Just reading it take hours.

The FDA can 'Fast Track'.

Meaing that FDA are violating their own requirements:)
There a lot of documentation to be written and approved just for simple drugs.
I Think vaccines have a lot more documentation.

Meaing that FDA are violating their own requirements:)
There a lot of documentation to be written and approved just for simple drugs.
I Think vaccines have a lot more documentation.

Yes they can.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/business/tests-of-cholesterol-drugs-offer-hope-of-reducing-heart-attacks-and-strokes.html
Final trials will not be completed until THE END OF 2017, but:
Both drugs could win approval from the Food and Drug Administration by this summer.

Finally. Bureaucracies can sometimes use common sense:)

Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone lockdown to hit 2.5m people

There have been 3,325 confirmed deaths from Ebola in the West African nation.

A three-day curfew in September, keeping people at home under quarantine, was hailed as a success by authorities, despite some criticism.

The country's National Ebola Response Centre says a new lockdown will come into place next week. It will affect close to 2.5m people.

While the number of cases has slowed since the peak of the outbreak, the virus is far from eradicated.

In the seven days leading up to 15 March, there were 55 new cases in Sierra Leone, and 90 in neighbouring Guinea.

The number of new cases in Liberia - where most deaths have occurred - has not been registered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31966989

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The number of new cases in Liberia - where most deaths have occurred - has not been registered.

Lynn:) Sorry to say that you are misinformed.

Dr. Mosoka Fallah, is head of Contact Tracing in Monrovia and one of the leading Ebola Fighters in Liberia. In this video he explains to Hans Rosling why contact tracers must possess two very different skills: On the one hand they need to be empathic with the victims and their families to build trust and good community relations; and on the other hand they must be like detectives with investigative skills to find and question the evidence in order to find and track all contacts.
Both skills are absolutely crucial for contact tracing to succeed; and eventually eradicate Ebola

Ebola Contact Tracers Need Two Very Different Skills - Factpod #14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maz6ptjKDSw&index=2&list=PLSrgd_ElrrXcMZ1Nt8hTC2tj1psJ4-K5O

Do this:) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Perfecting+Ebola+Contact+Tracing+

The number of new cases in Liberia - where most deaths have occurred - has not been registered.

Lynn:) Sorry to say that you are misinformed.

Dr. Mosoka Fallah, is head of Contact Tracing in Monrovia and one of the leading Ebola Fighters in Liberia. In this video he explains to Hans Rosling why contact tracers must possess two very different skills: On the one hand they need to be empathic with the victims and their families to build trust and good community relations; and on the other hand they must be like detectives with investigative skills to find and question the evidence in order to find and track all contacts.
Both skills are absolutely crucial for contact tracing to succeed; and eventually eradicate Ebola

Ebola Contact Tracers Need Two Very Different Skills - Factpod #14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maz6ptjKDSw&index=2&list=PLSrgd_ElrrXcMZ1Nt8hTC2tj1psJ4-K5O

Do this:) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Perfecting+Ebola+Contact+Tracing+

janneseti, Just reporting what the paper said.

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Ebola Stats: New York Times.

Ebola Cases Increase in Guinea

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that 95 new cases of Ebola had been confirmed in Guinea in the week that ended last Sunday, the highest weekly total for that country so far this year. The other two West African countries that have been ravaged by Ebola — Sierra Leone and Liberia — showed continued improvements for the week. Sierra Leone reported 55 confirmed new cases but that was the country’s lowest weekly total since last June. Liberia reported no new confirmed cases for the third consecutive week. Wednesday was the 12th day since the last known Ebola patient in Liberia had a negative test. Forty-two days must elapse after that test before transmission of the highly contagious Ebola virus is considered to have ended in Liberia. The weekly update by the W.H.O. also said a total of 10,154 people had died from the Ebola epidemic so far, almost all of them in the three worst-affected countries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/africa/ebola-cases-increase-in-guinea.html?_r=0

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janneseti, Just reporting what the paper said.

I know:) Even though it's BBC who are one of the most reliable news media in the world they also make mistakes.

Well Lynn I hope now Winter is on it's way that will help before the virus does start mutating fingers crossed.

2 years to get approval for vaccine !! .... we might all be dead or near dead by then if it get's out of Africa

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2 years to get approval for vaccine !! .... we might all be dead or near dead by then if it get's out of Africa

It's the trials that take 2 years.
We don't want to create something worse than Ebola.

ZMapp is the best chance they have imho:

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/750/art%253A10.1007%252Fs11427-014-4746-7.pdf?auth66=1426866011_b0bc892027c9231e73cefc93507339bd&ext=.pdf

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5488.short

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The best chance is to isolate suspected Ebola cases in Africa.
They have very good trackers and care takers already there.
For instance. The Ebola response in Liberia is lead by very capable Liberians like Tolbert Nyenswah & Mosoka Fallah!
So why send non-africans to Africa?
They dont medical "help". They already have all expertise they need to handle Ebola.

Interesting.

Ebola-proof' tablet device developed

A tablet device that can withstand being doused in chlorine has been developed to help medics caring for patients with Ebola.

Designed by technology volunteers and Google, it can be used even wearing gloves and in storms and high humidity.

Medecins Sans Frontieres put out a call for an Ebola-proof tablet to help teams record vital patient information.

At the height of the current outbreak, doctors were shouting patient notes across fences to avoid contamination.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31970731

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updated.

Guinea reports highest weekly Ebola case total so far this year, new UN data shows

19 March 2015 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the highest weekly number of Ebola cases in Guinea so far this year and noted that while transmission was confined to a narrow geographically contiguous arc straddling the capitals of Guinea and Sierra Leone, the population is highly mobile, thus creating a challenge “to prevent the seeding of new outbreaks.”

In the latest update on Ebola reissued today, Liberia reported no new confirmed cases for the third consecutive week and Sierra Leone had the lowest weekly total recorded since June 2014.

And to date, there have been more than 25,000 cases of Ebola reported in the hardest-hit West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone with over 10,000 reported deaths, according to WHO.

According to the latest update, a total of 150 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease were reported in the week to 15 March, compared with 116 the previous week.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=50380#.VQxobeH2MVA

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The best chance is to isolate suspected Ebola cases in Africa.
They have very good trackers and care takers already there.
For instance. The Ebola response in Liberia is lead by very capable Liberians like Tolbert Nyenswah & Mosoka Fallah!
So why send non-africans to Africa?
They dont medical "help". They already have all expertise they need to handle Ebola.

Since when did wanting to help become a bad thing?

If they already have all the expertise they need to handle Ebola, then care to explain how the disease epidemic got going in the first place?

I am not saying they are not very knowledgable, or are incapable. just maybe a bit understaffed and with some supply shortages.

I somehow doubt that the medical authorities over there would seriously turn down help from the rest of the world in handling an epidemic that is one of the closest things to hell on earth possible.

Well Lynn I hope now Winter is on it's way that will help before the virus does start mutating fingers crossed.

2 years to get approval for vaccine !! .... we might all be dead or near dead by then if it get's out of Africa

Let's hope it does not leave Africa.
Not airborne. Mutating, anything is possible.
yes, fingers crossed for mutating.

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Since when did wanting to help become a bad thing?

It's very good to get and give help.
However in the case of infectious diseases it can backfire.
Lynn has reported many of the US medics going back home are testing positive for Ebola.
Thats a perfect way to spread Ebola globally!

And they already have experts in the region...

Since when did wanting to help become a bad thing?

It's very good to get and give help.
However in the case of infectious diseases it can backfire.
Lynn has reported many of the US medics going back home are testing positive for Ebola.
Thats a perfect way to spread Ebola globally!

And they already have experts in the region...

Yes, I made that very point months ago. What I would have done would be that those going to help would be there 'for the duration'. No going home until it is over.

Yes, they do already have experts in the region. But, in Ebola outbreaks, many of the cases are from *trained* medical personnel.

Ebola is quite a nasty little bugger. One little moment of a careless slip-up, and the Doctor becomes the Patient, and due to the disease, quite possibly a dead one.

Yes, they do already have experts in the region. But, in Ebola outbreaks, many of the cases are from *trained* medical personnel.
Ebola is quite a nasty little bugger. One little moment of a careless slip-up, and the Doctor becomes the Patient, and due to the disease, quite possibly a dead one.

They have many "trained" medical personnel.
And also EXPERTS on the field of Ebola.
Now I think you are patronising African Health Care!!!

Liberia :((

Ebola case undermines Liberia disease-free hopes


Liberia has confirmed a new case of Ebola, undermining growing hopes in the country that it might soon be declared free of the disease.

There had not been a new case for 20 days until a woman tested positive on Friday in the capital, Monrovia.

The World Heath Organization requires 42 days to elapse from the last known case before a country can be declared free of the virus.

More than 4,000 people in Liberia have died from the disease.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31991748

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