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2025-05-02 • PLOS Global Public Health
2025-05-02 • PLOS Global Public Health
Clinical trials in settings with intermittent or non-existent internet and power connectivity, for example ...
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2025-03-25 • Lancet Global Health
2025-03-25 • Lancet Global Health
Journal Article
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2024-12-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2024-12-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
The west Africa Ebola disease epidemic (2014-16) marked a historic change of course for patient care during emerging infectious disease outbreaks. The epidemic response was a failure ...
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2024-09-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2024-09-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever with few options for diagnosis and treatment; it is also under-researched with knowledge gaps on its epidemiology. A point-of-car...
Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever with few options for diagnosis and treatment; it is also under-researched with knowledge gaps on its epidemiology. A point-of-car...
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|Commentary
2024-03-15 • Science
2024-03-15 • Science
For those exposed to filovirus, such as Sudan virus and Ebola virus, a new study offers hope.
Journal Article
|Commentary
2023-08-19 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2023-08-19 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Although there are now approved treatments and vaccines for Ebola virus disease (EVD), the case fatality of EVD remains unacceptably high even when treated with the newly approved therap...
Conference Material
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2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
BACKGROUND
Lassa fever (LF), a haemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa fever virus (LASV), is endemic in West Africa causing an estimated 300 000 to 500 000 cases and 5 000 fataliti...
Lassa fever (LF), a haemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa fever virus (LASV), is endemic in West Africa causing an estimated 300 000 to 500 000 cases and 5 000 fataliti...
Conference Material
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2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
2023-06-08 • Epicentre Scientific Day Paris 2023
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2022-01-06 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2022-01-06 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BACKGROUND
Only one recommendation currently exists for the treatment of Lassa fever (LF), which is ribavirin administered in conjunction with supportive care. This recommendation is...
Only one recommendation currently exists for the treatment of Lassa fever (LF), which is ribavirin administered in conjunction with supportive care. This recommendation is...
Journal Article
|Letter
2022-06-30 • New England Journal of Medicine
2022-06-30 • New England Journal of Medicine
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2020-12-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2020-12-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Lassa fever (LF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness with various clinical manifestations. Neurological symptoms are not commonly present at the early stage of the dise...
Lassa fever (LF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness with various clinical manifestations. Neurological symptoms are not commonly present at the early stage of the dise...
Journal Article
|Case Report/Series
2019-12-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2019-12-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
The signs and symptoms of Lassa fever are initially indistinguishable from other febrile illnesses common in the tropics and complications of pregnancy. Surviving Lassa fe...
The signs and symptoms of Lassa fever are initially indistinguishable from other febrile illnesses common in the tropics and complications of pregnancy. Surviving Lassa fe...
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|Review
2011-11-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2011-11-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Testing an innovative therapy for filovirus hemorrhagic fever (FHF) in an outbreak setting may be years away. Moreover, beyond anecdotal evidence, little is known about best practice for...
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2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging, zoonotic, arboviral hemorrhagic fever threatening livestock and humans mainly in Africa. RVF is of global concern, having expanded its geographica...
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|Short Report
2014-10-09 • New England Journal of Medicine
2014-10-09 • New England Journal of Medicine
In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of a communicable disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and a high fatality rate in Guinea. ...
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2010-01-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-01-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Interviews were conducted with health workers and community members in Masindi, Uganda on improving the acceptability of infection control measures used during an Ebola outbreak. Measure...