Wednesday, 13 January 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (04): WHO, prevention, research, drugs & vaccines

Ebola -- Liberia
"We've got to focus on what could potentially happen next," says David Pigott, a spatial epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, UK, and that means uncovering the species that harbour Ebola in the wild to try to prevent deadly outbreaks in the future.
It is no easy task. Since the disease 1st emerged in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) 40 years ago, efforts to trace the origins of the outbreaks, including the most recent one, have come up frustratingly empty. Wild

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/1OjlSz4

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