http://www.webmd.com/news/20151022/pauline-cafferkey-nurse-ebola-meningitis
wonder how the virus 'caused' her to get meningitis.
She's back
Nurse Kaci Hickox who was quarantined over Ebola fears sues Christie
http://www.northjersey.com/news/nur...ined-over-ebola-fears-sues-christie-1.1438959
A nurse held for three days in quarantine at a Newark hospital last year after aiding Ebola patients in West Africa has filed suit against Governor Christie and members of his administration, saying they violated her constitutional rights by holding her against her will without due process.
Typical ignorant comments after the article about how she put society at risk, which is completely false.
Yeah, but do understand that at the beginning of this outbreak, there were many seemingly "ignorant" comments here also - that were completely false and made someullhair:. Go back to the first threads and perhaps fully understand that many here were not educated also (or other term... "ignorant") Yes, now folks are more understanding here and in the world at large about the disease. Thank goodness. It's come a long way as to understanding... and has a long way to go :moo:
I was involved with the leading edge of HIV/AIDS... and very very well see similarities. Again, I'll recommend reading the book "And the Band Played On". Or, even seeing the movie of the same name.
" In July 2015 the World Health Organization announced a major development in the Ebola fight: preliminary results of an Ebola vaccine study in Guinea showed 100 percent effectiveness."
"At the time of the WHO team’s preliminary reporting July 31, 2015 in the journal Lancet, more than 4,000 close contacts of nearly 100 patients infected with Ebola had participated in the trial. None of the vaccinated participants developed Ebola virus disease 10 days or more after receiving the vaccine. Based on these results, the trial stopped randomizing participants to allow for all people at risk to receive the vaccine immediately."
"The trial is ongoing, as cases of Ebola remain in Guinea and Sierra Leone, Longini said. A meeting of the WHO in late October will decide when the trial will end. After the trial, the vaccine will have to be proven safe and efficacious in order to be licensed and no longer considered experimental."
"Longini said one of the challenges of this trial — and something that will benefit the response to outbreaks of other infectious diseases in the future — was to design ways to manage data in an emergency situation. This will help others implement the ring vaccination method in the outbreak of infectious diseases such as Middle Eastern respiratory virus, coronavirus, dengue, chikungunya, cholera and even pandemic influenza."
http://biostat.ufl.edu/2015/10/22/ira-longini-and-who-team-lead-breakthrough-ebola-vaccine-trial/
This is GREAT NEWS.
I never thought I would see the day where they would declare a vaccine for this monster of an illness.
This will be very good news for the 3rd world countries the next time we have a serious outbreak like the last one.
Thanks for sharing the news about this.
Also thanks for the separate good news link about the field test kit. That will also help keep people who just have a cold and they may think they have ebola and now they can be tested first before traveling to an ebola care center. That should help stop spreading it because someone with just a cold or flu may mistakingly go to an Ebola care center and become infected.
The test kit should help prevent that.
Yes great news!!! Now we have to get a cure for the Zika virus. Does it ever end?
WHO said last week that Zika was spreading "explosively" across America and predicts 3-4 million people could be infected within a year.
Should we start up a thread here?
Yes, if allowed :moo:
Guinea confirms 2 new Ebola cases, 3 probable in southeast
Two bodies tested positive for Ebola in Guinea, the government said Thursday, months after the outbreak was declared over in the West African country and hours after Sierra Leone announced the end of the recent flare-up of the virus there.
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An emergency meeting will be held Friday with the Ministry of Health, said Dr. Sakoba Keita, the national coordinator of the fight against Ebola.
Earlier Thursday, the deputy director general of the N'Zerekore Regional Hospital, Dr. Zoba Guilavogui, said a man and woman from the same family died of an illness like Ebola, but tests were pending.
Guinea was declared free from Ebola on Dec. 29. It would be celebrating the end of its 90-day heightened surveillance period at the end of March.