New options to fight Ebola

Supporting Those Who Go to Fight Ebola

1 Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Ma...

WMA calls for urgent support to fight Ebola.

Ebolavirus Vaccines: Progress in the Fight Against Ebola Virus Disease.

Ebolaviruses are highly infectious pathogens that cause lethal Ebola virus disease (EVD) in humans and non-human primates (NHPs). Due to their high pathogenicity and transmissibility, as well as the potential to be misused as a bioterrorism agent, ebolaviruses would threaten the health of global populations if not controlled. In this review, we describe the origin and structure of ebolaviruses ...

US nurse says she will fight Ebola quarantine.

The US nurse who cared for patients with Ebola virus disease in west Africa and is now being held in quarantine in her home in Maine said on 29 October that she would challenge her detention in court. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, was held in an isolation tent for three days outside a New Jersey hospital over the weekend after she returned from Sierra Leone. The 33 year old nurse was found to have a ...

Tough quarantine plans may hurt Ebola fight, Obama administration warns.

The decision by several US states to quarantine health workers returning from west Africa for 21 days could make it harder to end the outbreak of Ebola virus disease, the Obama administration warned over the weekend. Four states—NewYork, New Jersey, Florida, and Illinois—have said they will require mandatory quarantine of anyone who has had contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus whi...