Infection rates and risk factors for infection among health workers during Ebola and Marburg virus outbreaks: a systematic review

SA Selvaraj, KE Lee, M Harrell, I Ivanov… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Infection in health workers (HWs) has characterized outbreaks of Ebola virus
disease (EVD) and Marburg virus disease (MVD). We conducted a systematic review to …

Epidemic preparedness and management: A guide on Lassa fever outbreak preparedness plan

AA Fatiregun, EE Isere - Nigerian Medical Journal, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Epidemic prone diseases threaten public health security. These include diseases such as
cholera, meningitis, and hemorrhagic fevers, especially Lassa fever for which Nigeria …

Contact tracing during an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Western area districts of Sierra Leone: lessons for future Ebola outbreak response

OO Olu, M Lamunu, M Nanyunja, F Dafae… - Frontiers in public …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Contact tracing is a critical strategy required for timely prevention and control of
Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks. Available evidence suggests that poor contact tracing …

Epidemiology and management of the 2013–16 West African Ebola outbreak

ML Boisen, JN Hartnett, A Goba, MA Vandi… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The 2013–16 West African Ebola outbreak is the largest, most geographically dispersed,
and deadliest on record, with 28,616 suspected cases and 11,310 deaths recorded to date …

Measuring media campaigns effectiveness for environmental health for Sustainable Development: A study of Ebola outbreak in Lagos State, Nigeria

O Nelson, BJ Namtira - Journal of Health Management, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In the field of media and health communication studies, there have been various studies on
the nature and danger of virus and infectious diseases in the African continent. However …

West Africa 2013: re‐examining Ebola

DG Bausch, A Rojek - Emerging Infections 10, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) that began in Guinea in 2013 and then rapidly
spread through Liberia and Sierra Leone lasted over 2 years and resulted in over 28,500 …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons learnt from epidemiological investigation of Lassa Fever outbreak in a southwest state of Nigeria December 2015 to April 2016

EE Isere, AA Fatiregun, O Ilesanmi, I Ijarotimi… - PLoS …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Introduction: An outbreak of Lassa Fever (LF) reported and confirmed in Ondo state,
Southwest Nigeria in January 2016 was investigated. This paper provides the epidemiology …

Justice, Well-Being, and Civic Duty in the Age of a Pandemic: Why we all Need to Do our bit

JC Bester - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2020 - Springer
This article presents an argument related to justice obligations during a pandemic and
explores implications of the argument. A just society responds to a serious threat to the well …

Reporting quality of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa: a systematic analysis

N Huynh, A Baumann, M Loeb - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic analysis of the reporting quality of the
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa from 2014–2018 using the Modified …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of infrared and electronic digital thermometry in growing broilers.

MO Abioja, SI Balogun, OF Akinjute, OA Iyanda - 2019 - researchgate.net
Body temperature (BT) data obtained from 150 unsexed broiler chickens aged 28d were
used to compare accuracy of different thermometers. Electronic digital (ED) and infrared (IR) …