Containing the Threat—Don't Forget Ebola

No slack in diseases threat

While the threat from global human diseases appears to have been low over recent months, a new report warns that there must be no false sense of security and that the world will face a new deadly threat on the scale of Aids, Sars or Ebola within a decade. The World Health Organisation, in its annual report last month, warned that diseases were spreading more quickly than at any time in history....

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A Systematic Review of Computational Drug Discovery, Development, and Repurposing for Ebola Virus Disease Treatment.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a deadly global public health threat, with no currently approved treatments. Traditional drug discovery and development is too expensive and inefficient to react quickly to the threat. We review published research studies that utilize computational approaches to find or develop drugs that target the Ebola virus and synthesize its results. A variety of hypothesized a...

Preparing an Academic Medical Center to Manage Patients Infected With Ebola: Experiences of a University Hospital.

As Ebola has spread beyond West Africa, the challenges confronting health care systems with no experience in managing such patients are enormous. Not only is Ebola a significant threat to a population's health, it can infect the medical personnel trying to treat it. As such, it represents a major challenge to those in public health, emergency medical services (EMS), and acute care hospitals. Ou...

Fear of Ebola: The Influence of Collectivism on Xenophobic Threat Responses.

In response to the Ebola scare in 2014, many people evinced strong fear and xenophobia. The present study, informed by the pathogen-prevalence hypothesis, tested the influence of individualism and collectivism on xenophobic response to the threat of Ebola. A nationally representative sample of 1,000 Americans completed a survey, indicating their perceptions of their vulnerability to Ebola, abil...