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Flight of the aerosol

Posted onFebruary 9, 2020November 9, 20207 Comments

Understanding what we mean when we discuss airborne virus infection risk. An article collaboratively written by (alphabetically).. Dr. Katherine ArdenA former postdoctoral researcher with interests in the detection, culture, characterization and epidemiology of respiratory viruses.Dr Graham Read More …

CategoriesCoronavirus, Ebola virus, Transmission

Could Measles virus and Ebola virus be working together in the DRC?

Posted onSeptember 7, 2019September 9, 20192 Comments

Measles, resulting from measles virus (MeV) infection can cause immune suppression and “immune amnesia”. MeV infection most often affects non-immune children but can occur in any age group. Immune suppression Read More …

CategoriesEbola virus, Measles, Vaccines & vaccination

Testing out OpenStreetMap stuff

Posted onAugust 20, 2019August 22, 20191 Comment

To bring you and I some better maps and to try and prove that this old dog can still learn new tricks, I’ve had a go at using OpenStreetMap via Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsMaps, OpenStreetMaps

PHEIC news

Posted onJuly 25, 2019July 25, 2019

Almost a year (51 weeks) since the first 25 cases of fever were reported by the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 30 Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsDemocratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, PHEIC

Ebola virus disease crosses the border into Uganda

Posted onJune 12, 2019June 13, 2019

The first confirmed case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been reported in a child identified in Kasese, Uganda. The child, who died has a history of travelling to The Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagschild, EVD, Uganda

Portrait of uncontrolled Ebola

Posted onMay 13, 2019May 15, 2019

The latest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak has been a slow burn in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the first official report in July 2018. With the wonderful Read More …

CategoriesEbola virus

More confirmed Ebola deaths than cases?

Posted onMay 7, 2019May 7, 2019

A strange number pattern has appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) Ebola virus disease (EVD) Reports for a couple of the affected health Read More …

CategoriesEbola virus

Home. It’s where the viruses spread.

Posted onMarch 10, 2019March 11, 2019

Some see a mild illness, or no obvious illness at all, after infection by Ebola virus as almost heretical. But new evidence adds to that which already exists – it Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsAntibodies, asymptomatic, Guinea, Mayinga, mild illness, West Africa, Zaire ebolavirus

Will violence Let Go of the DRC long enough to kick out Ebola virus?

Posted onFebruary 28, 2019March 4, 2019

The 2018/19 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was showing some promising signs of control earlier this week. Then the latest attacks Read More …

CategoriesEbola virus

Ebola virus disease (EVD) update: to 01JAN2019

Posted onJanuary 3, 2019January 3, 2019

This is a brief Ebola virus disease (EVD) update of the latest number of people infected with, vaccinated against disease due to and killed as a result of, Ebola virus Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola virus disease, snapdate

No, it isn’t time to cede the field to endemic Ebola virus disease in the DRC

Posted onNovember 21, 2018November 22, 20181 Comment

A few weeks ago, the Director of the CDC made comments to the mainstream media raising the spectre of endemic Ebola virus disease, or an ongoing, permanent infection in the Read More …

CategoriesCommunication, Ebola virusTagsDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola virus, Ebola virus disease

Minding the gap: looking at numbers early in an outbreak

Posted onAugust 15, 2018August 25, 20182 Comments

The second Ebola virus disease for 2018 continues to unfold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nearly two weeks have passed since the official announcement of the outbreak by the Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsControl gap, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ebola virus, Ebola virus disease, epidemiology, Equateur Province, EVD, Ituri Province, North Kivu Province

SNAPDATE: Ebola virus numbers

Posted onAugust 8, 2018August 25, 2018

The latest Ebola virus disease (EVD) figures of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) are out and I’ve plotted them below. The important numbers remain Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsDemocratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ebola virus disease, EVD, Hypsignathus monstrosus, Update

The proportion of fatal cases (PFC)…

Posted onAugust 6, 2018August 25, 2018

In July 2013 I coined an initialism for Virology Down Under (VDU) to avoid using the term Case Fatality Ratio/Rate/Risk (CFR); the Proportion of Fatal Cases (PFC). IMPORTED POST* I use Read More …

CategoriesEbola virus, H7N9Tagsimported, PFC, proportion of fatal cases

Ebola virus disease numbers from a double-province outbreak

Posted onAugust 5, 2018August 6, 20182 Comments

In spectacularly rapid fashion, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has started it’s daily, very detailed, Ebola virus disease updates to cover the case details and Read More …

CategoriesEbola virusTagsDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola virus disease, Zaire ebolavirus

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