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TTI (test, trace, isolate) has to be in place, fully working, capable dealing any surge immediately, locally responsive, rapid results & infection rates have to be lower. And trusted.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And is there really a difference between a global epidemic and a pandemic? And does it make a difference to what we do? i don't think so.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In the end if you move from a binary to a three or four stage process, you'll always have these semantic arguments, and is there really a difference between a global epidemic and a pandemic? And does it make a difference to what we do?
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Essentially the WHO is between a rock and a hard place.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is possible that often mild symptoms, and probability of people being affected and infectious without experiencing symptoms, from this coronavirus may be masking the true numbers of people who have been infected, and the extent of person to person transmission.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Wuhan is a major hub and with travel being a huge part of the fast-approaching Chinese New Year, the concern level must remain high, it is probable that we are looking at patients being affected over a number of days from multiple animal sources and with some degree of human-to-human transmission.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The more we learn about these two treatments, ...the closer we can get to turning Ebola from a terrifying disease to one that is preventable and treatable, we won't ever get rid of Ebola but we should be able to stop these outbreaks from turning into major national and regional epidemics.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Vaccines, for example, are one of our most powerful public health tools, and we need people to have confidence in them if they are to be most effective, no matter how great your idea, how exciting your new treatment or how robust your science, it must be accepted by the people who stand to benefit from it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
No public health can work without the support of the society it's in. The science is clear in all of these things, but unless it has not just tacit support, but engaged support, then public health really struggles.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I respect the advice of the emergency committee but do believe a Public Health Emergency of International Concern would have been justified.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Doing so would raise the levels of international political support, which has been seriously lacking so far, show strong support for DRC and neighboring countries and WHO, and release more resources, including finance, healthcare workers, enhanced logistics, security and infrastructure.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Although Congo Ebola outbreak does not at this time pose a global health threat, I want to emphasise that for the affected families and communities, Congo Ebola outbreak is very much Congo Ebola outbreak, we also need the international community to step up Congo Ebola outbreak financial commitment to ending Congo Ebola outbreak.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
A step up in the national response with full international support is critical if we're to contain the epidemic and ensure the very best protection for the communities at risk and for the health workers working to protect lives, this needs to be championed at the highest political levels, including at the UN and the upcoming G20.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This epidemic is in a truly frightening phase and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon, there are now more deaths than any other Ebola outbreak in history, bar the West Africa Epidemic of 2013-16, and there can be no doubt that the situation could escalate towards those terrible levels.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can expect and should plan for more cases in DRC and neighboring countries.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This epidemic is in a truly frightening phase and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon, we can expect and should plan for more cases in DRC and neighboring countries.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This epidemic will not be brought under control without a really significant shift in the response, community trust and safety, as well as community engagement and ownership of the response is critical.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The numbers are nothing short of terrifying, this epidemic will not be brought under control without a really significant shift in the response.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is ultimately these measures that will bring this epidemic to an end.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The community in North Kivu must be at the center of the response, their trust and ownership is critical and is extremely challenging.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The worst case scenario is that political instability remains, mistrust grows ... and then there's nothing to stop the epidemic getting embedded into a big urban centre and taking off as it did in West Africa.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When you have political instability, public health always suffers.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is impossible to overstate the implications of this work in all Sir Gregory P. Winter daily lives -- biofuels, chemicals, environment, medicine and so much more e.g. treatment of cancer, arthritis, Crohn's, UC and infections -- there are patients with Ebola being treated today with antibody therapies, this has impacted so much of modern medicine.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's critical that we encourage companies to keep working on this, firstly, it may be that two vaccines may have very different characteristics.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We can't predict how the outbreak will progress, and the WHO must keep the situation under frequent review and not hesitate to declare a PHEIC if the situation shows signs of deteriorating.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
You can't overrespond in this scenario, but the vaccine must be seen in the context of an overarching public health response. Critically that means early diagnosis, early isolation, safe burials and understanding the social context. The vaccine can only be a part of the solution.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We know that Zika has been present in Southeast Asia and Africa for many years and yet has not taken off there as it has in South America. This is what the international research effort needs to work out, and quickly.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After the hard lessons we've learned, it would be a tragedy not to put a final stop to the current Ebola epidemic and be prepared for the next outbreak.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The job is still not done, as Ebola infection rates come under control it's a huge concern that complacency sets in, attention moves to more immediate threats and Ebola vaccine development is left half-finished.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The increase in reported cases of Guillain-Barré in Brazil and other South American countries seems to suggest that a similar situation may be occurring in the current outbreak, although the link here is yet to be proven definitively.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is particularly true for Zika, where so much is still unknown about the virus, how it is spread and the possible link with microcephaly.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Epidemic and pandemic diseases are among the greatest of all threats to human health and security, against which we have for too long done too little to prepare, after four inquiries into the preventable tragedy of Ebola, there is now a strong consensus about what must be done. The WHO’s leadership and member states must make 2016 the year of decision and act now.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's so thinly stretched, there's arguably no organization on earth that could cover all those (topics) at sufficient depth to be authoritative.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The WHO faced heavy criticism for waiting too long to declare the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency and they should be congratulated for being far more proactive this time.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As we saw with the new confirmed case just last week, the Ebola epidemic is likely to have a long tail and it's possible that several more isolated cases will emerge in the coming weeks and months, this vaccine...could still play an important role in containing any additional flare ups of this outbreak, as well as being available to help prevent future epidemics.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage, yet for many decades, the world has invested far less in preventing, preparing for and responding to these threats than in comparable risks to international and financial security.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What we need to see now is action, the WHO's leadership and its member states must make 2016 the year in which we learn the lessons of past epidemics and pandemics and implement these valuable measures, to build a more resilient global health system.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We can now be certain that the health of livestock animals, and how we care for them, is inextricably linked to our own health and the effectiveness of medicines we rely on every day, we need international governments, policy makers and the agricultural industry to coordinate their actions and set tangible targets for the reduction and better use of antibiotics in animals.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The uncertainty is very difficult to communicate, but it absolutely underlines why research is so critical, there are so many unanswered questions, all with really profound implications - for the epidemic, for the survivors and their families, and for the next inevitable outbreak of Ebola.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is totally unprecedented. We've never seen this, and there's so much uncertainty, is this a one off? A very rare event? Or is this going to be quite common? The honest answer is we don't know.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It also reminds us that the Ebola epidemic could be far from over, with more than 17,000 Ebola survivors, it's possible that further cases of delayed transmission and late complications will occur.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This trial dared to use a highly innovative and pragmatic design, which allowed the team in Guinea to assess this vaccine in the middle of an epidemic, our hope is that this vaccine will now help bring this epidemic to an end and be available for the inevitable future Ebola epidemics.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We can no longer sit back and ignore the chronic lack of progress in developing new vaccines, and improving existing ones.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's essential that this new body is accountable and can show leadership in the face of emerging health threats, with the authority and independence to act quickly when needed, the support of the global community is also crucial if we are to avert another catastrophe on the scale of Ebola.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We mustn't think surveillance itself is enough. The world is already much better at detecting these things as they emerge. But what we need is the capacity to respond.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The collective expertise of the world's infectious disease experts is more powerful than any single lab, and the best way of tapping into this...is to make data freely available as soon as possible.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Families who know what it is like to care for a child with a devastating disease are the people best placed to decide whether mitochondrial donation is the right option.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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