Yes, yes, I know and we’ll get to the obvious in the coronavirus section. But the Ebola update is short, so we’ll start there as per usual. Ebola: Guinea is currently treating one confirmed case and 2 suspected cases (which have been either confirmed or released by now). This has moved the 40 day with …

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Ebola– No new cases have been documented, and at this point, if the contacts lost to follow up actually had Ebola, at least a couple infection chains should have announced themselves. We’ll close the books on yet another Ebola outbreak. Availability of vaccines and now several choices of antibodies as acute Ebola treatments should help …

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Ebola: There may be a new case in Guinea? Again, the WHO reports are lagging about a week, but around the internet there are suggestions that there is a suspected case under observation in a treatment center in Guinea. I have no idea how reliable that is, and right now the case is merely suspected …

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Ebola: No new cases in either of the current outbreaks right now. The biggest news is a case report this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The report describes a 25 year old man in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 2018-2020 North Kivu outbreak of Ebola. As a close contact …

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This will be super short (really) since the kids are off on Spring Break. Ebola: Both Guinea and the DRC have released their last known patients from the hospital this week (both last patients survived). We are at 18 confirmed cases in Guinea and 12 in the DRC. 50% mortality even in both. This starts …

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Ebola– Thanks to those who sent along this week’s lead news in Ebola. Specifically, sequencing of the virus causing the outbreak in Guinea has traced it to a re-activation of virus in a male survivor of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2015. The re-activated virus was sexually transmitted by this survivor, and off the new …

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Ebola –Other than several thousand miles, there is not much differentiating the outbreaks in the DRC and Guinea right now. Both are still under 20 confirmed cases each; new cases are popping up sporadically, and as near as I can tell in known transmission chains. Vaccine is available in both locations and rings have been …

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Ebola– There are two active outbreaks of Ebola now. The one most recently mentioned, Guinea, is now up to at least 17 cases with 7 deaths. The most recent confirmed case was on 28 Feb, and of just under 500 known contacts, all but 3 have been successfully followed up. They have been aggressive with …

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This will be on the shorter side too. Been attending an e-conference through the weekend and early part of this week. Still no symptoms for the Most Popular 1st Grader Ever, and COVID contact jail wraps up mid next week. –Ebola news: Not much, really. There has been no update on case numbers, which I …

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–Not a typo in the title: Ebola is back. Guinea, whom you may recall as one of the most affected countries during the West Africa outbreak, officially declared an Ebola outbreak after the virus was confirmed in an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever. There are five confirmed or suspected deaths so far and there are at …

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