The United Nations (UN) Foundation blog has used some pretty strong language in their latest post of the 5 Things to Know on Ebola This Week.Number 2 on their list stated (by highlighting)...First detected case of Ebola transmitted through sexual intercourse Earlier research suggested that three months of abstinence or condom use among male survivors would suffice to prevent the transmission...
Compa�eros en Salud � a model for rural primary care in Chiapas, Mexico
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Publishing on 'ebola' is a booming pastime...
One of my jobs since October last year has been to keep up on the literature for Ebola virus and Ebola virus disease. At this stage I have a lot of reading to catch up on.There were 1,858 publications during the 37 years including 1977 to 2013. In 2014 and 2015 (so far), there have been...
Hans Rosling, a micro-outbreak of Ebola in Liberia and trust issues in Guinea...
As is always the case, Prof Rosling can be seen in front of an audience here, providing a beautifully articulated example of how trust in the Ebola virus disease (EVD) treatment centre/unit plays such a pivotal role in (a) the containment of EVD, even witting a family and...
DNA structure... a primer
A DNA Down Under postFor an organism, or a virus, to grow or replicate, it must make new pieces of itself and assemble those pieces into something functional.Simple pieces or units can form larger and larger structures. In humans this process starts with proteins then moves on to form cells, then tissues,...
Rhinoviruses (RVs)...a primer
Schematic of a human rhinovirus (RV) genome. (+)ssRNA genome.Based on GenBank accession no. NC_001490 for HRV-C3 (f.QPM).Use images freely but please cite www.newsmedicalnet.blogspot.com.au and Dr. Ian M Mackay as their source.Click on image to enlargeMore than 100 serologically distinct types...
The weakening pulse of the Ebola monster...
As of this post, some of the most comprehensive publicly available data on an emerging virus is coming out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in relation to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Yeah-that's what I said. Even with all the issues I complain about, its more detailed...
Where did the MERS-CoV comorbidity and animal contact fields go...? [UPDATED]
Is this the work of the US CDC and other visitors helping the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ministry of Health (MOH) resolve their Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) problem? Is it an arbitrary reporting change by the Command and Control Center (CCC)? Is it someone forgetting to...
