Global Health Ebola Update 1/15

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Good News: Falling Incidence
New Ebola cases dipped last week in all 3 of West Africa's worst-hit countries last week, although hot spots persist—especially in the western part of Sierra Leone, according to the WHO’s January 14 situation report.

Sierra Leone continues to be most affected; it reported 184 new confirmed cases last week, while Guinea and Liberia reported 42 and 8 respectively. That takes the total for the epidemic to 21,296 cases, and 8,429 deaths.
** CIDRAP (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=cff8bcd3f2&e=9c1fcebfa3)



And Now, the Dose of Reality
New cases may be falling, but lest our hopes swell prematurely, let’s head over to Crawford Kilian’s H5N1 blog for another perspective. He points us to an important article in ** The Atlantic, Ebola’s Hidden Costs (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=0859be58cf&e=9c1fcebfa3)
as “a useful antidote to the premature euphoria I sense in the reports about declining (or even level) case incidence.”

Thanks for keeping it real, Craw.
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Related: Could the Ebola epidemic end this year? – ** PLOS Health Perspectives (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=dd2fa58409&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: West Africa - Ebola Outbreak, Fact Sheet #16 – ** USAID & CDC via ReliefWeb (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=f88d686207&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Study to examine Ebola’s survival rate, disinfection in sewage – ** UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=34d31a35e8&e=9c1fcebfa3)

Related: Wonks disagree over whether IMF contributed to Ebola crisis – ** Humanosphere (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=76010a3989&e=9c1fcebfa3)