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Sierra Leone Now Bearing the Brunt: Out of 16,000 Ebola cases, nearly 7,000 people have died, according to WHO numbers released Friday. Sierra Leone, which is now enduring the highest caseload, needs more beds. A number of treatment centers are set to open in December, including 5 British-built treatment centers, but the UN expressed concern over who will staff the centers. ** Associated Press (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Ebola Vaccine Shows Promising Results: A fast-tracked small study of an Ebola vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline and the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases found that 20 people vaccinated developed immune responses against Ebola and no serious side effects. Next, the vaccine could move to trials among 15,000 people in Liberia and Sierra Leone, possibly by mid-January. The ** New England Journal of Medicine published the preliminary report (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
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Ebola Virus Found in Semen, WHO Warns: The Ebola virus may persist in the semen of men who have recovered from the virus for as long as 3 months, according to the WHO, based on a review of 4 earlier studies. Although the sexual transmission of Ebola virus disease has not been documented, such men should ideally abstain from sex (including oral sex) for 3 months after onset of symptoms. ** WHO (http://jhsph.us3.list-
Is Liberia Ready for Campaign Rallies? New Ebola cases are falling in Liberia, but the risk hasn’t passed—prompting concern over the resumption of crowds attending campaign rallies and parties related to the mid-December Senate election. ** NPR (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
America Learned All the Wrong Lessons in its First Brush with Ebola: America’s obsession with “at-risk” populations missed the point, recalling how the obsession with stigmatized gay men set back efforts to check HIV/AIDS, argues Hali Felt in this piece. ** Salon (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
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