naturalfeature:sierra liberia

Evidence for sexual transmission of the #Ebola Virus.

In December 2013 cases of Ebola, a viral haemorrhagic fever with an extremely high mortality rate, began to emerge in Guinea, West Africa, marking the beginning of the most severe outbreak of the disease ever recorded. The epidemic rapidly spread to several neighbouring countries, including Sierra Leone and Liberia where if became established and killed large numbers of people before being eradicated. Liberia was officially declared free of Ebola on 3 September 2015, though cases were still being reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone, albeit at a much lower rate than during the peak of the epidemic.

▻http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.it/2015/11/evidence-for-sexual-transmission-of.html

#Ebola : le #PNUD appelle à agir pour éviter un #effondrement_économique régional

7 octobre 2014 – Au début d’une visite de 10 jours dans les pays les plus touchés par l’épidémie d’Ebola (Guinée, Sierra Leone et Libéria), un haut responsable du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) a déclaré lundi qu’il fallait tout faire pour que cette crise sanitaire ne devienne pas une crise socio-économique régionale.

▻http://www.un.org/africarenewal/fr/derni%C3%A8re-heure/ebola-le-pnud-appelle-%C3%A0-agir-pour-%C3%A9viter-un-effondrement-%C3%A9conomiq

#Ebola: Where we are; where we should be
▻http://africasacountry.com/ebola-where-we-are-where-we-should-be

Is it coincidental that the so-called Ebola humanitarian crisis—dubbed global complex emergency by the West—is unfolding on the upper Guinea coast the site of intense activities during the European slave trade? Is it coincidental that the upper Guinea Coast, or precisely the Mano River Basin, which include two Pan-African state projects, #Sierra_Leone and #Liberia, […]

#BREAKING #DEVELOPMENT_&_AID #POLITICS #aid #development #Governance #health #Industry

Modeling the Impact of Interventions on an Epidemic of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia – PLOS Currents Outbreaks
▻http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/obk-14-0043-modeling-the-impact-of-interventions-on-an-epidemic-of-eb

The basic reproduction number (R0) for the baseline scenario was calculated in the same manner as in Legrand et al.10 Briefly, R0 is broken into three components, representing the respective contributions of community, hospital and funereal transmissions, as well as an overall R0 reflecting the epidemic potential for the disease. In the baseline scenario, we estimate an overall R0 of 2.22, made up of an R0 of 1.35 from the community, 0.35 from hospitals and 0.53 from funerals for Liberia. Sierra Leone’s R0 was estimated to be 1.78, made up of an R0 of 1.11 from the community, 0.24 from hospitals and 0.43 from funerals.

http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/files/2014/09/LiberiaCombinedTrajectory.png

World Health Organization says Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/15/ebol-o15.html

World Health Organization says Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week

By Andre Damon
15 October 2014

The number of new Ebola cases in Africa could grow as high as 10,000 per week, ten times higher than earlier estimates, according to projections the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, who heads the WHO response to the crisis, said the public health organization now estimates the mortality rate in the countries affected by the outbreak—Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea—to be around 70 percent. Even though earlier statistics had shown a survival rate of around fifty percent, the UN-affiliated organization is now recording “at best 30 percent survival,” he said.

#ebola

The Ebola epidemic: A social disaster in West Africa - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/09/pers-o09.html

The world has looked on in horror as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has rapidly developed into a humanitarian catastrophe. The present outbreak, concentrated in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, has infected more than 8,000 people already.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the situation in West Africa “continues to deteriorate, with widespread and persistent transmission of [Ebola].” The WHO also reported that there is no evidence that the epidemic is being contained and that a recent decline in reported cases was due to “deterioration in the ability of overwhelmed responders to record accurate epidemiological data.”

#ebola

Deux cartes uMap:

– deSyracuse #Syria civil war (8 August 2014)
▻http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/desyracuse-syria-civil-war-8-august-2014_14181#7/34.814/39.974

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/qtk9pqw5xl4u0mf/syria-umap.png

– Eric Moro #Ebola E-tracking in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea (started July 11)
▻http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/ebola-e-tracking-in-sierra-leone-liberia-and-guine_12522#8/8.086/-11.121

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/a44dvog6w9zk7k1/ebola-tracking-umap.png

#cartographie #outil #merci @ybon

#Mapping the acceleration of #Ebola in West Africa in five charts - Quartz
►http://qz.com/243686/five-charts-show-how-the-ebola-contagion-is-accelerating-in-west-africa

one of the big reasons why ebola is devastating Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia : physician density

http://img.qz.com/2014/08/one-of-the-big-reasons-why-ebola-is-devastating-guinea-sierra-leone-liberia-physician-density_chartbuilder.png http://img.qz.com/2014/08/where-the-ebola-pandemic-is-gaining-momentum-guinea-cases-guinea-deaths-sierra-leone-cases-sierra-leone-deaths-liberia-cases-liberia-deaths_chartbuilder.png

#santé #inégalités

#Lebanon stops work permits for #Ebola-hit nations
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-stops-work-permits-ebola-hit-nations

Lebanon’s labor ministry said Friday it has suspended the issuance of work permits to residents of several African countries hit by an outbreak of the Ebola virus. In a statement carried by Lebanon’s National News Agency, the ministry said that “as a result of fears about public health and to prevent an Ebola epidemic, the labor ministry is no longer receiving work permit requests from residents of #Sierra_Leone, #Guinea and #Liberia.” read more

West Africa #ebola epidemic is ’out of control’ | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/23/west-africa-ebola-epidemic-out-of-control

The ebola epidemic in west Africa is “out of control” and will be contained only if politicians, religious leaders and aid agencies urgently improve their response to the unprecedented outbreak, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned.

The disease, which is continuing to spread through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, has so far claimed 350 lives, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

#santé