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  • Tags: Outbreaks

Creator: NYC Health + Hospitals and GNYHA
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-15
Description: On August 15, GNYHA and NYC Health + Hospitals (H + H) will co-host a webinar to provide an update on special pathogen outbreaks now occurring internationally and how all hospitals can improve their readiness for potentially infected patients.…

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Creator: Folarin OA, Ehichioya D, Schaffner SF, Winnicki SM, Wohl S, Eromon P, West KL, Gladden-Young A, Oyejide NE, Matranga CB, Deme AB, James A, Tomkins-Tinch C, Onyewurunwa K, Ladner JT, Palacios G, Nosamiefan I, Andersen KG, Omilabu S, Park DJ, Yozwiak…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-10-15
Description: Containment limited the 2014 Nigerian Ebola virus (EBOV) disease outbreak to 20 reported cases and 8 fatalities. We present here clinical data and contact information for at least 19 case patients, and full-length EBOV genome sequences for 12 of the…

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Creator: Katherine J. Siddle, Ph.D., Philomena Eromon, B.Sc., Kayla G. Barnes, Ph.D., Judith U. Oguzie, D.V.M., Samar Mehta, M.D., Ph.D., Ikponmwonsa Odia, M.Sc., Rickey Shah, A.L.M., Patrick Brehio, B.S., Sarah M. Winnicki, M.S., Christopher Iruolagbe,…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-11-01
Description: In early 2018 Nigeria experienced an unprecedented increase in Lassa fever cases with widespread geographic distribution.

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Creator: Fallah MP, Skrip LA.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-01-24
Description: This article reviews the testing of Ebola therapies during the outbreak.

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Creator: Nathan L. Yozwiak, Christian T. Happi, Donald S. Grant, John S. Schieffelin, Robert F. Garry, Pardis C. Sabeti, and Kristian G. Andersen, on behalf of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of…

Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-06-30
Description: Summary

Recent infectious disease epidemics illustrate how health systems failures anywhere can create disease vulnerabilities everywhere. We must therefore prioritize investments in health care infrastructure in outbreak-prone regions of the…

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Creator: Mbala-Kingebeni P, Aziza A, Di Paola N, Wiley MR, Makiala-Mandanda S, Caviness K, Pratt CB, Ladner JT, Kugelman JR, Prieto K, Chitty JA, Larson PA, Beitzel B, Ayouba A, Vidal N, Karhemere S, Diop M, Diagne MM, Faye M, Faye O, Aruna A, Nsio J, Mulangu…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-15
Description: The real-time generation of information about pathogen genomes has become a vital goal for transmission analysis and characterisation in rapid outbreak responses. In response to the recently established genomic capacity in the Democratic Republic of…

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Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2019-06-19
Description: Overview

The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a large country in Central Africa with more than 85 million people, continues to grow and threaten other countries. This outbreak is the largest to occur in DRC and is now the…

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Creator: WHO
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-12
Description: ABOUT THIS ANALYSIS: DRC’s national research institute, the Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB) and WHO have conducted a preliminary analysis of the data being collected from the ring vaccination protocol. The analysis…

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Creator: CDC
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-16
Description: Recommendations for organizations sending US-based health care or emergency response workers to areas with Ebola outbreaks and predeparture assessment of any workers traveling from Ebola outbreak areas to the United States.

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Creator: WHO
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05
Description: Considerable variability exists in the level of supportive care offered to Ebola patients, and this guideline provides recommendations for the management of adults and children to provide the best possible chance for survival.

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