نتایج جستجو برای: ebola disease

تعداد نتایج: 1495146  

Journal: :Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2015
Daniel J Morgan Barbara Braun Aaron M Milstone Deverick Anderson Ebbing Lautenbach Nasia Safdar Marci Drees Jennifer Meddings Darren R Linkin Lindsay D Croft Lisa Pineles Daniel J Diekema Anthony D Harris

BACKGROUND Hospital Ebola preparation is underway in the United States and other countries; however, the best approach and resources involved are unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine costs and challenges associated with hospital Ebola preparation by means of a survey of Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) members. DESIGN Electronic survey of infection prevention experts. RESULT...

Journal: :Rhode Island medical journal 2016
Jaclyn Skidmore Michael Gosciminski Utpala Bandy

BACKGROUND Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola) is a viral hemorrhagic fever that causes severe illness and can be fatal. Symptoms present 2 to 21 days after exposure to the Ebola virus and include: sudden onset of fever, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, and fatigue, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and unexplained bleeding or bruising.1 In December 2013, an outbreak of Ebola began ...

2015
Saeed Safari Alireza Baratloo Alaleh Rouhipour Parisa Ghelichkhani Mahmood Yousefifard

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) was first reported in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever centered in Yambuku (near the Ebola river), Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Nzara, Sudan. The current outbreak of the Ebola virus was started by reporting the first case in March 2014 in the forest regions of southeastern Guinea. Due to infection rates raising over 13,000...

Journal: :MMWR supplements 2016
Jeffrey C Hageman Carmen Hazim Katie Wilson Paul Malpiedi Neil Gupta Sarah Bennett Amy Kolwaite Abbigail Tumpey Kristin Brinsley-Rainisch Bryan Christensen Carolyn Gould Angela Fisher Michael Jhung Douglas Hamilton Kerri Moran Lisa Delaney Chad Dowell Michael Bell Arjun Srinivasan Melissa Schaefer Ryan Fagan Nedghie Adrien Nora Chea Benjamin J Park

The 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic in West Africa underscores the need for health care infection prevention and control (IPC) practices to be implemented properly and consistently to interrupt transmission of pathogens in health care settings to patients and health care workers. Training and assessing IPC practices in general health care facilities not designated as Ebola treatm...

2017
Philip Baba Adongo Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong Emmanuel Asampong Joana Ansong Magda Robalo Richard M. Adanu

BACKGROUND Ebola virus is highly infectious and the disease can be very fatal. The World Health Organization has declared the 2014-2015 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. In response to this, preparations were made in various health facilities and entry points across Ghana. This study explored health workers perceptions, and attitude about Ghana's p...

Journal: :Lancet 2015
Michael Edelstein Philip Angelides David L Heymann

The resurgence of polio in Syria in 2013 has shown how a breakdown in public health can lead to the reemergence of previously well-controlled diseases. In 2014 and early 2015 Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone have focused all resources on the Ebola response at the expense of other health programmes. Combined with losing a large proportion of the health-care workforce and the population’s reluct...

2015
Suresh Rewar Dashrath Mirdha

Ebola Virus Disease is a severe illness that starts with a sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and both external and internal bleeding, according to the WHO. Ebola is not spread through the air or by water, or in general, by food. However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread ...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2016
Kyle Rosenke Jennifer Adjemian Vincent J Munster Andrea Marzi Darryl Falzarano Clayton O Onyango Melvin Ochieng Bonventure Juma Robert J Fischer Joseph B Prescott David Safronetz Victor Omballa Collins Owuor Thomas Hoenen Allison Groseth Cynthia Martellaro Neeltje van Doremalen Galina Zemtsova Joshua Self Trenton Bushmaker Kristin McNally Thomas Rowe Shannon L Emery Friederike Feldmann Brandi N Williamson Sonja M Best Tolbert G Nyenswah Allen Grolla James E Strong Gary Kobinger Fatorma K Bolay Kathryn C Zoon Jorgen Stassijns Ruggero Giuliani Martin de Smet Stuart T Nichol Barry Fields Armand Sprecher Moses Massaquoi Heinz Feldmann Emmie de Wit

BACKGROUND The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa has resulted in 28 646 suspected, probable, and confirmed Ebola virus infections. Nevertheless, malaria remains a large public health burden in the region affected by the outbreak. A joint Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institutes of Health diagnostic laboratory was established in Monrovia, Liberia, in August 2014, to pro...

Journal: :The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS 2015
Lakshmi Krishnasamy Chitralekha Saikumar

Ebola viral disease is one of the major threats world wide. But the treatment option is merely supportive and symptomatic therapy. Vaccination and drug therapies are still under trial. This article throws light into the various emerging treatment options for the Ebola viral disease.

Journal: :African health sciences 2014
Anthony K Mbonye Joseph F Wamala Miriam Nanyunja Alex Opio Issa Makumbi Jane Ruth Aceng

BACKGROUND There has been a rapid spread of Ebola Viral Hemorrhagic disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since March 2014. Since this is the first time of a major Ebola outbreak in West Africa; it is possible there is lack of understanding of the epidemic in the communities, lack of experience among the health workers to manage the cases and limited capacities for rapid response. The mai...

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