Kent Brantly, MD, Leaving Hospital Today
Kent Brantly, MD, is leaving Emory University Hospital today, cured from Ebola, the deadly hemorrhagic fever he contracted in Liberia.
Ebola is marked by initial symptoms such as fever, muscle pains, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. It then progresses to organ system failure including the cardiac, renal, liver, and pulmonary systems. In some patients, uncontrolled hemorrhage occurs from the skin, eyes, mouth, and rectum.
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Experimental Drug Shown to Be Effective in Marburg Virus Disease Similar to Ebola
Reports published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine have shown that an experimental drug being manufactured by Tekmira pharmaceuticals was very effective in halting the disease process of the Marburg virus in monkeys.
Marburg virus is an RNA virus very similar to Ebola that causes a hemorrhagic illness that is almost always fatal. Thomas W. Geisbert and colleagues have shown that a drug using RNA interference was able to save all monkeys infected with Marburg virus while none of the monkeys who did not receive the drug survived.
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Ebola Animal Vector Likely Bats
Ebola animal vector is likely bats, according to the most recent thinking from disease ecologists. This would explain how the Ebola Zaire strain of the disease disease, which before the current outbreak, was unknown in West Africa, migrated from the Congo, almost 2500 miles away.
African fruit bat
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Myanmar and Vietnam Testing Patients for Ebola
Myanmar and Vietnam are holding several patients in isolation after testing them for the presence of the Ebola virus.
Reportedly, patients arrived from Nigeria and developed fevers. Myanmar has only the most rudimentary healthcare system and likely would have resources quickly depleted if there a significant number of patients developed the disease.
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California Patient Being Tested for Ebola
Officials at the South Sacramento Medical Center are being tight-lipped about a patient being tested for Ebola virus infection.
The California patient is not being identified by gender or age and Kaiser Permanente officials are only saying that the patient may have been exposed to Ebola virus and every precaution is being taken to insure the safety of the hospital caregivers and community.
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Ebola Patients at Emory No Longer Contagious
In a report from Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Ebola patients Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol are recovering so well from Ebola that they are now considered to be immune and no longer able to transmit the disease to another person.
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Cameroon Closes Borders with Nigeria in Ebola Crisis
Cameroon has closed all borders with Nigeria in an effort to prevent the spread of Ebola into Cameroon, which has yet to report a case of the hemorrhagic viral fever.
Government official Issa Tchiroma Bakary comments.
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Air France Flight Attendants Refusing to Fly to West Africa
Some flight attendants working for Air France are refusing assignments and calling for a suspension of flights to the West African nations of Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
British Airways and Emirates have already curtailed flights to the region, but Air France is notable as it is the largest European carrier to West Africa.
Employment rules covering the flight attendants allow for refusal of assignments if the person feels their health is in immediate or grave danger.
Sophie Gorins of the Air France flight staff union SNGAF comments.
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Ebola Expert Never Told of Experimental Drug Before His Death
Ebola expert Dr. Sheik Umar Khan was never told by his physicians that a dose of an experimental drug that likely saved two Americans was at his bedside and available for use.
One dose of ZMAPP happened to be in Sierra Leone when Dr. Khan fell ill. There was a wide-ranging discussion between the World Health Organization and his bedside doctors concerning the ethics of trying a drug never before tested in humans.
Despite disagreement as to the proper course, the bedside physicians decided against even discussing the possibility of its use with Dr. Khan, who worsened and died 48 hours later.
The day after Dr. Khan’s p...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 20, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Medical News Wire ethics kent brantly nancy writebol Sheik Umar Khan Sierra Leone world health organization ZMAPP Source Type: blogs
Nigerian Doctors Continuing Strike During Ebola Crisis Fired
Nigerian officials have fired 16,000 physicians who continued their strike as the Ebola virus hit Lagos. The physicians went out a nationwide strike before the first case of Ebola was diagnosed, but ignored requests from the government to resume their duties to help contain the disease.
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Big and Little Pharma Race for Ebola Vaccines and Cures
For a really good summary of what drug manufacturers big and small are doing to develop Ebola vaccines and drugs to stem the growing catastrophe of the Ebola virus outbreak, read this article by Scott Gottlieb, MD.
He discusses the recent donation of 1000 doses of a vaccine developed by the Canadian government, the status of the ZMAPP drug given to Americans Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, vaccine efforts by Danish firm Bavarian Nordic, phase I clinical trials being planned for a vaccine manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, and the unfortunate discontinuation of an Ebola treatment made by Sarepta because of a lack of fund...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 19, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Medical News Wire Bavarian Nordic Canadian government Ebola sarepta Scott Gottlieb vaccines ZMAPP Source Type: blogs
Looters Steal Ebola Infected Sheets in Liberia
Looters in the West Point slum of Monrovia broke into a holding center housing about 30 patients and looted the clinic of grossly soiled mattresses and sheets that undoubtedly harbored the deadly Ebola virus.
The looters, some of whom were armed, threatened the infected patients, forcing them to flee.
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US Aid Workers Leaving West Africa Worsens Ebola Crisis
As US aid workers are leaving Liberia and other parts of West Africa, authorities are reporting that the Ebola crisis is widening with no one left to care for sick and dying.
Clarine Vaughn of the aid organization Heartt and Raphael Frankfurter of Wellbody Alliance comment.
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Can Nano Silver Help Stop Ebola?
As the Ebola virus continues to spread in West Africa with recent information from the World Health Organization that Kenya is at real risk for disease spread, the search continues for possible treatment options for infected patients.
Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic disease marked by nausea, vomiting , and diarrhea and in the end stages of disease is marked by cardiac, pulmonary, liver, and kidney failure. Most patients develop hemorrhages from the skin, mouth, nose, eyes, and rectum.
There currently is no proven cure or antidote for the disease The World Health Organization this week convened an international panel of ethici...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 15, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease antiviral colloidal Ebola nano Nigeria silver Source Type: blogs
Robin Williams Had Undisclosed Parkinson’s Disease
Robin Williams had undisclosed Parkinson’s disease according to this wife in a report released today. He was apparently sober but struggling with depression, anxiety, and an early stage of the disease.
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