The next phase of the response must not be about deploying more people into communities simply to deliver interventions.
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Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.
Sierra Leone was one of three countries ravaged by the Ebola epidemic 10 years ago. A national vaccine campaign is a big step towards preventing future outbreaks.
The US was not ready for the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. What can public health leaders and policymakers do to make sure we don’t face another winter of rampant disease?
If we learn from COVID-19, there are three key areas to tackle to make cities safer from outbreaks of future infectious diseases.
Military support for coronavirus responses must remain subordinate to public health expertise – and learn from previous epidemics.
The high stress conditions of an outbreak can spread a dysfunctional culture among those working to fight it. A survey after the 2015 Ebola epidemic quantified the issue – and suggests a better way.
Banning travel might not always be the best way to respond to a disease outbreak.
There have been ten Ebola outbreaks recorded from the DRC between 1976 and 2018 from different locations. This implies that the virus is widely spread.
The final trials of the first effective Ebola vaccine show it’s safe to use against an outbreak.
In the future, consumers in the developed world could choose to purchase products from the companies that do the most to promote global health.
Recovering from Ebola can mean disability, stigma and the threat of the disease returning – but authorities are starting to act.
Governments in West Africa and international aid agencies should help facilitate adoptions locally and provide better health care and education to support entire communities.
Was the Ebola vaccine 100% effective, or 100% lucky? The good money is on a percentage somewhere in between, but in truth, we will never know.
Along with better strategies to respond to outbreaks in human populations, we need a stronger focus on surveillance in animals to identify infectious diseases before they pose a risk to human health.
Media coverage of the growing Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has presented world audiences with apocalyptic predictions of ultimate death tolls and grisly imaginings of its spread to…
Governments have a duty to protect their citizens but the plan to impose mandatory detention on health-care workers being suggested by some Australian states is excessive and unwarranted. On Monday, the…
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Communicable Disease Epidemiology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Infectious Diseases Lead, King's Sierra Leone Partnership, King's College London
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Principal Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Virus and Animal Reservoirs at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization and Co-Lead of One Health at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan
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Visiting Associate Professor, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Theory of Probability, University of Sussex
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PhD Candidate in Resource Management and Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, UNSW
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Principal Medical Scientist (PhD MPH), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Sussex
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Research fellow, University of Southern Queensland
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PhD Researcher, Queen Mary University of London