Necessary Improvements of WHO Ebola Case Definitions Needed
Current WHO Ebola case definitions perform suboptimally at case identification in both community and clinical triage settings.
Current WHO Ebola case definitions perform suboptimally at case identification in both community and clinical triage settings.
After treating an Ebola patient, a nurse is cleared for airplane travel.
Vaccine being used in ‘compassionate use’ capacity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The treatments, REGN-EB3 and mAb-114, are both monoclonal antibodies.
Rwanda has closed its border with Congo due to the Ebola outbreak.
Declarations of emergency typically spur increases in global attention and aid.
Remdesivir, ZMapp monoclonal antibodies both appear to block growth of the Ebola virus strain.
A simple intradermalanti-Ebola DNA vaccine may generate strong immunogenicity and induce long-term immune responses in nonhuman primates.
The immunogenicity generated by 3 experimental Ebola vaccines appears to be long-lasting, as it has persisted for at least 2.5 years.
Deaths include 163 confirmed Ebola cases, 35 probable cases.