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Pathogen Perspectives: 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. This page is meant to offer you a few links to organizations that need donations, or other sites that have more thorough information on how you can help, created by people who have taken the time to compile it. Thank the Lord for these wonderful people. And please help if you can. Donations don't need to be huge to help. Each dollar counts. Why Am I Here? Microceph...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Ebola Unburied: Does Improper Burial of Ebola Victims Leave Communities at Risk of Exposure Through Dogs?
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Monday, August 25, 2014. Ebola Unburied: Does Improper Burial of Ebola Victims Leave Communities at Risk of Exposure Through Dogs? The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has taken a gruesome turn as we learn of dogs. Digging into fresh, shallow graves to partake in an Ebola feast. But what does this mean for those in the community and what does it mean for the dogs? Review of Ebola virus infections in domestic ani...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Fireside Chat with Dr. C.J. Peters: How will the 2014 W. Africa Ebola epidemic play out?
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Fireside Chat with Dr. C.J. Peters: How will the 2014 W. Africa Ebola epidemic play out? Pretty smart too, so I agreed with everything he said. As you can imagine, it was a lot of fun. To illustrate this, let's consider a concept that epidemiologists use :. R naught). This is the basic reproduction number of an infection: the average number of cases that a single infectious cas...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Photojournalist Mariella Furrer
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Welcome to the Mariella Furrer Page at Pathogen Perspectives! In fact she not only emailed me back, she said she would be happy to let me use a photo and that she appreciated my efforts here at this blog. Wow! Well, as I explored Mariella's website. And female genital mutilation. A book that documents this journey and is available for purchase here. So to Mariella, I am honored to be able to use your photo.
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Pathogen Perspectives: Ebola PPE: How the 1995 Kikwit Outbreak Taught Us to Dress for Ebola
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Thursday, August 28, 2014. Ebola PPE: How the 1995 Kikwit Outbreak Taught Us to Dress for Ebola. Well, this question has already been answered. In Kikwit, there were two powerful ways by which aerosol transmission of Ebola was ruled out and the necessary PPE was defined. Did you catch that? Every secondary case was due to direct contact with a symptomatic Ebola patient. This is why it's so frustrating to ...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Not Tonight Dear, I Had Ebola
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Friday, September 26, 2014. Not Tonight Dear, I Had Ebola. I've received some very valuable feedback on this post and I agree that I should have started off with the science behind my opinion and included references. I intended to include references when I posted it, but got distracted and then forgot they. I have fielded a lot of questions regarding Ebola virus in the semen of survivors lately and the. Prepo...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Ebola Convalescent Serum: It's No Magic Bullet
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Ebola Convalescent Serum: It's No Magic Bullet. Hello Dear Friends,. There have been many questions since Dr. C.J. Peters was quoted here. 9/8/14) saying that convalescent serum from Ebola survivors was unlikely to help treat patients. In this post I go into detail about the data we have that supports this statement. In a future post I will discuss the why. By the way, if you're...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Ebola Q & A with Dr. C.J. Peters: What My Tweeps Want to Know
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Monday, September 8, 2014. Ebola Q and A with Dr. C.J. Peters: What My Tweeps Want to Know. The response to my Fireside Chat with Dr. C.J. Peters. Our first three questions are from Dr. Ian Mackay, a virologist at the University of Queensland who is also the Keeper for both the site. For Virology Down Under. Dr. Mackay can be followed on Twitter: @MackayIM. 1) More training paramedical people. 2) Provide ...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Ebola Patient Zero: What we do, and do not, need to know about an epidemic index case
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Ebola Patient Zero: What we do, and do not, need to know about an epidemic index case. Whenever there is an infectious disease epidemic there will also be an index case, or patient zero. When did symptoms start? What did they eat? Did anything unusual happen? Did they go hunting? Was there an insect or animal bite? Are they sick now? But do we actually need a name? We have had the...
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Pathogen Perspectives: Why Ebola Airborne Mutation(s) are "Highly Unlikely": Let's Talk Mutation and Natural Selection
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Exploring the world of emerging infectious disease. 2014 Ebola Epidemic Relief Effort Resources. Sunday, October 5, 2014. Why Ebola Airborne Mutation(s) are "Highly Unlikely": Let's Talk Mutation and Natural Selection. Note: This post is not an exhaustive treatise on the evolution or adaptation of filoviruses, but an applicable discussion on certain principles. With Kai Kupferschmidt (17 September 2014):. You can speculate in every direction, of course, but I think it should be fact-based, it should be d...
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