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Obama: U.S. Will Beef Up Airport Screenings for Ebola

Mon, 2014-10-06 17:49 — mike kraft

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By Zeke J. Miller Oct. 6. 2014 5:24 PM

President Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S. is working on additional passenger screenings for airline passengers flying from Ebola-stricken West Africa, two weeks after a Liberian man infected with the disease entered the country.

Officials are “going to be working on protocols to do additional passenger screenings both at the source and here in the United States,” Obama said, addressing reporters following a briefing on his administration’s response to the epidemic in Africa and efforts to keep the disease from spreading to the U.S. “All of these things make me confident that here in the United States at least the chances of an outbreak, of an epidemic here are extraordinarily low.”

The president did not give specifics on the new screening measures, and Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declined to elaborate further in an interview with CNN after the meeting.

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/219856-fda-approves-use-of-experimental-ebola-drug

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FDA approves use of experimental Ebola drug

Mon, 2014-10-06 15:41 — mike kraft

THE HILL Oct. 6, 2014
By Sarah Ferris

Washington --The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the use of an experimental drug that has been hailed as one of the pharmaceutical industry's best chances at fighting the Ebola virus.

Chimerix, a North Carolina-based biopharmaceutical company, announced Monday that it has received approval to administer an antiviral drug called brincidofovir that has successfully treated Ebola in lab tests.

The drug has also been tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, though it is not expected to win approval for wide public use until late 2016.

Another drug that has been used to treat Ebola-infected patients, TKM-Ebola, has also been permitted for emergency use by the FDA.... The drug, produced by Canadian drugmaker Tekmira, was given a "fast track" designation and is still undergoing clinical trials.

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Medical Research: Ebola Therapy Protects Severely Ill Monkeys

Sun, 2014-10-05 21:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

nature.com

Thomas W. Geisbert

Nature 514, 41–43 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13746 - Published online 29 August 2014

A blend of three monoclonal antibodies has completely protected monkeys against a lethal dose of Ebola virus. Unlike other post-infection therapies, the treatment works even at advanced stages of the disease. See Article p.47

Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp

Nature 514, 47–53 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13777
Received 05 August 2014 - Accepted 21 August 2014 - Published online 29 August 2014

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http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/10/01/only-four-u-s-hospitals-prepared-for-outbreak/

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Are Hospitals Prepared for Ebola?

Sat, 2014-10-04 21:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cnn.com - October 1, 2014

CNN's Jake Tapper speaks to Gavin Macgregor-Skinner and Jeffery Stern. With the first Ebola diagnosis in the U.S., is the country prepared to handle a potential outbreak?

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http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ppe-poster.pdf

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Sequence for Putting On and Removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Sat, 2014-10-04 19:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/factsheets.html

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Texas Ebola Watch Eyes 50 People, 10 at 'High Risk'

Sat, 2014-10-04 17:08 — Norea

By SABINA GHEBREMEDHIN & MEGHAN KENEALLY - Oct 3, 2014 - ABC News

The number of people being monitored in Texas for possible exposure to an infected Ebola patient has been narrowed to 50, with 10 of those believed to be at "high risk" for exposure, Texas health officials said today.

The effort to prevent any spread of the often lethal virus became more focused on a day when the family of Thomas Eric Duncan said he appeared to weaken, and a special cleaning crew began sanitizing the Dallas apartment he was staying at when he became ill.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11110090/NHS-staff-are-being-asked-to-volunteer-to-fight-Ebola-outbreak.html

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NHS staff are being asked to volunteer to fight Ebola outbreak

Sat, 2014-10-04 11:14 — Norea

A World Health Organization worker trains nurses to use Ebola protective gear in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the spread of Ebola is accelerating Photo: Michael Duff/AP By Rebecca Smith - 22 Sep 2014 - telegraph.co.uk

Medical leaders have appealed for NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics to volunteer to treat Ebola victims in Sierra Leone.

A letter signed by the four most senior NHS medical officers directly asks for volunteers to staff a new hospital.

British military experts working alongside charities are setting up a 12-bed unit to treat infected healthcare workers and an additional 50 bed unit for ordinary citizens infected with the deadly virus.

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How a Winnipeg lab became an Ebola research powerhouse

Sat, 2014-10-04 11:10 — Norea

Researchers with the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg say they are optimistic that a tool to combat the Ebola virus may be on the horizon. (John Woods/Canadian Press) By Helen Branswell - The Canadian Press - Sep 21, 2014

Winnipeg is half a world away from the countries in Africa where Ebola, and its viral cousin, Marburg, occasionally slip out of their animal reservoir to start infecting and killing people, as Ebola is now doing in West Africa.

The current outbreak has infected at least 5,335 people and killed at least 2,622. To date, there has never been a case of either viral hemorrhagic fever infections within Canadian borders.

So why then is Canada's national lab an Ebola research powerhouse? Why is a facility on the edge of the Prairies, near North America's longitudinal centre, the site from whence some of the most promising Ebola research emanates?

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http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/189516-west-africa-ebola-threat/

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MSF chief: World losing battle with Ebola now

Sat, 2014-10-04 10:58 — Norea

rt.com - Sep 22, 2014

While the world is preoccupied with Islamic State or political games around Ukraine, there’s another threat emerging from the West Africa - where people are dying by hundreds, reaped by the deadliest Ebola epidemic to be ever known to mankind. Efforts to contain it end in a failure, and the vaccine is nonexistent yet. Are we seeing another pandemic slowly growing up to strike at mankind? What should be done to stop it? What does it mean to be a doctor in a place where death reigns? We try to find out this together with the head of the Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders. Dr. Joanne Liu is on Sophie&Co today.

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