Based on borrowed museum specimens and fresh collections from South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, many specimens of Neomacrocoris Montandon have been made available for study. Neomacrocoris liberianus n. sp. is described from Liberia and Sierra Leone based on two museum specimens. Neomacrocoris bondelaufa Sites is synonymized with N. transvaalensis (Distant) and distribution records for N. parv...

We report the complete genome sequence of Ebola virus from a health worker linked to a cluster of cases occurring in the fishing community of Aberdeen, Sierra Leone (February 2015), which were characterized by unusually severe presentation. The sequence, clustering in the SL subclade 3.2.4, harbors mutations potentially relevant for pathogenesis.

A surgeon who caught Ebola virus disease while working in Sierra Leone died early in the morning of 17 November while undergoing treatment in the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Martin Salia, a Sierra Leone national and a permanent US resident, practiced as a surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He was flown to Omaha from Sierr...

We developed an agent-based model to investigate the epidemic dynamics of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia and Sierra Leone from May 27 to December 21, 2014. The dynamics of the agent-based simulator evolve on small-world transmission networks of sizes equal to the population of each country, with adjustable densities to account for the effects of public health intervention policies and ind...