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Thu, 2013-07-04 12:32 — mdmcdonald
The Guinea Resilience System working group is focused on the development of Resilience Systems in Guinea.

The mission of the Guinea Resilience System working group is to develop Resilience Systems and their nested subsystems in Guinea.

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Abdoulaye Drame Aboubacar Conte Anthony Boubacar Kaba Carrielaj Chisina Kapungu
Elhadj Drame Hadiatou Balde Ismael Dioubate John Wysham Kathy Gilbeaux Lancine Konate
Mamadou Diallo Mamadou Moustap... Mamadou Sylla mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com mike kraft
Norea Souleymane Drame
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Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea — Preliminary Report

Thu, 2014-04-17 11:12 — Elhadj Drame

In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of a communicable disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and a high fatality rate in Guinea. Virologic investigation identified Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) as the causative agent. Full-length genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis showed that EBOV from Guinea forms a separate clade in relationship to the known EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. Epidemiologic investigation linked the laboratory-confirmed cases with the presumed first fatality of the outbreak in December 2013. This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea.

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New Ebola Strain Causing West Africa Outbreak

Thu, 2014-04-17 09:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

FILE - In this photo provide by MSF, healthcare workers prepare isolation and treatment areas for Ebola in Gueckedou, Guinea, Mar. 28, 2014.

voanews.com - by Steve Baragona - April 16, 2014

WASHINGTON — The strain of Ebola virus that has killed 121 people in West Africa may have been circulating there undetected for some time, according to a new study. . .
 
. . . They confirmed that it is a member of the Zaire species, which kills most of its victims. Strains of that virus have caused outbreaks previously in Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 
But this virus is a new strain, a previously unknown sister in the Zaire family.
 
Virologist Jens Kuhn at the National Institutes of Health said there may be more.

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Mob attacks Ebola treatment centre in Guinea, suspected cases reach Mali

Sat, 2014-04-05 09:20 — Elhadj Drame

BAMAKO/CONAKRY, April 4 (Reuters) - An angry crowd attacked an Ebola treatment centre in Guinea on Friday, accusing its staff of bringing the deadly disease to the town, Medecins Sans Frontieres said, as Mali identified its first suspected cases.

More than 90 people have already died in Guinea and Liberia in what medical charity MSF, or Doctors without Borders, has warned could turn into an unprecedented epidemic...

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Ebola victims quarantined in Guinea

Wed, 2014-03-26 15:50 — Elhadj Drame

CONAKRY, GUINEA — Health workers in protective hazmat suits treated patients in quarantine centers on Tuesday in a remote corner of Guinea where Ebola has killed at least 60 people in West Africa's first outbreak of the deadly virus in two decades.

Seven patients are being hospitalized at one isolation ward in Gueckedou in southern Guinea, while two others are being treated elsewhere, said Doctors Without Borders. The aid group said it is sending mobile teams into the surrounding countryside in search of people who may have been exposed since the first cases emerged last week.

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Ebola Virus Suspected to Have Spread From Guinea to Liberia

Tue, 2014-03-25 10:22 — Elhadj Drame

Africa’s biggest Ebola outbreak in seven years has probably spread from Guinea to neighboring Liberia and also threatens Sierra Leone.

Five people are suspected to have died from the disease in Lofa county in northern Liberia, Bernice Dahn, Liberia’s chief medical officer, said at a briefing yesterday. At least 86 cases and 59 deaths have been recorded across Guinea, the west African country’s health ministry said. The capital, Conakry, hasn’t been affected, government spokesman Albert Damantang Camara said.

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EBOLA DETECTED IN GUINEA VICTIMS, 50 DEAD

Sun, 2014-03-23 11:40 — Elhadj Drame

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Samples from victims of a viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed more than 50 people in Guinea have tested positive for the Ebola virus, government officials said Sunday, marking the first time an outbreak among humans has been detected in this West African nation. 

 

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Guinea Ebola Outbreak

Sat, 2014-03-22 20:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cnn.com - by Christabelle Fombu and Susanna Capelouto - March 23, 2014

(CNN) -- An Ebola outbreak has killed at least 59 people in Guinea, UNICEF said, as the deadly hemorrhagic fever has quickly spread from southern communities in the West African nation.

Experts in the country had been unable to identify the disease, whose symptoms -- diarrhea, vomiting and fever -- were first observed last month.

Health Minister Remy Lamah said Saturday initial test results confirm the presence of a viral hemorrhagic fever, which according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body.

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First-Ever Use of Oral Cholera Vaccine During Outbreak in Africa

Mon, 2013-11-18 23:50 — Elhadj Drame

MSF vaccination campaign in Guinea shows feasibility of oral cholera vaccine for control of future epidemics

 

Paris/New York, October 17, 2013—In a report published today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and its scientific research arm, Epicentre, present results of one of the first-ever, large-scale uses of an oral cholera vaccine during a cholera outbreak—a major breakthrough in the understanding and future control of deadly cholera epidemics.

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2013 WHO Global Tuberculosis Report launched

Thu, 2013-11-07 20:30 — Elhadj Drame

The World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled 5 priority actions to strengthen the fight against one of the world’s leading infectious killers - tuberculosis (TB) - at the 23 October launch of a new report on the epidemic. The 2013 TB report calls for more attention to multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and reaching those who are being missed by the system.

 

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Gaps persist despite doubling of new products for neglected diseases

Thu, 2013-11-07 20:15 — Elhadj Drame

A rigorous assessment of drug and vaccine development for neglected diseases that shows some improvement over the last decade but still major gaps has been published in the Lancet today. Only 4% of the new therapeutic products registered between 2000-11 were for 11% of the global disease burden, and only 4 new chemical entities that can lead to truly new products were approved. 

 

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