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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsCholera, an acute waterborne diarrheal illness, poses a major threat to global health, especially in developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Estimates suggest that cholera affects approximately 2.9 million people each year across the 69 countries in which it is endemic, and it causes an estimated 100,000 deaths annually [Ali et al., 2…
By Liz Wells and Holly Bennett
A forecasting tool that uses data routinely collected by state health departments could be used to forecast disease in the event of a bioterrorist attack or new influenza pandemic.
EpiFX, which was co-developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne and the Defence Science Technology (DST) Group, is already p…
For most of human history, when the world’s population was small and sparsely distributed, infectious diseases were lethal but local. Since then, rising populations and globalisation have turned viruses and bacteria into mass killers.
A century ago, the Spanish flu pandemic killed approximately 50m, recording more deaths than World War I. Although impr…
Cholera outbreaks continue to take thousands of lives year after year. Using satellite data and specialized algorithms, one group was able to accurately predict an outbreak weeks in advance. This tool could give communities time to prepare.
The outbreak of disease is the life-threatening start of a worst-case scenario, with the potential to become an e…
This study aims to address the question of how to optimize risk messages for diffusion across networks and, as a result, increase message exposure. In this study the researchers add to this growing body of research by identifying message-level strategies to increase message passing during high-ambiguity events. Social media platforms like Twitter and Fa…
By Salem Solomon
With the Democratic Republic of Congo facing its second major Ebola outbreak this year, emergency responders have worked to contain the spread of the disease. Scientists, meanwhile, are testing the effectiveness of experimental vaccines in the field.
Alongside these efforts, researchers in the DRC are collecting data that will im…
By Gerardo Fortuna
The EU’s preparedness for outbreaks of infectious disease has increased, but member states still need to overcome ethical, administrative, regulatory and logistic bottlenecks for boosting clinical research, medical experts said at a scientific meeting in Brussels.
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The main idea to emerge from the meeting…
By Inna Lazareva
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Marie-Claire Thérèse Fwelo, a WHO official who has worked on all nine Ebola outbreaks in her native DRC, said it was key to counter misinformation, citing rumours that the vaccine could make people sterile, or that Ebola was caused by a curse.
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Quick diagnosis is a challenge - the latest DRC outbreak may have gone undetec…
As the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak spirals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda and DRC have resolved to increase cross-border surveillance on both sides of the Uganda-DRC border. This was the consensus during a cross-border meeting among health officials from the two countries, held at Kasindi- Lubiriha immigrations office, in DRC.…