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Items Tagged with 'Ebola virus'

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Emergency response

First responders to get training in infectious disease safety

June 14, 2016
A training program will help approximately 35,000 first responders and workers whose jobs may expose them to infectious diseases protect themselves while also minimizing the spread of disease to others. The three-year, $9 million program is being launched by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other federal agencies.
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Ebola containment strategy succeeding in Liberia

February 23, 2015

The CDC’s Rapid Isolation and Treatment of Ebola (RITE) strategy is helping to end the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, according to new data reported in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).


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A NIOSH Science Blog post

Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development

How NIOSH is helping design improved PPEfor healthcare workers
Ronald Shaffer PhD
February 12, 2015

The current Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest in history and is unprecedented in many ways, including the large number of healthcare workers who have been infected while treating patients. The large scale of the epidemic, as well as the two healthcare workers who contracted Ebola while caring for the first case in the United States, has directed particular attention to the personal protective equipment (PPE) used by healthcare workers to reduce their risk of infection.


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How to protect workers who handle Ebola waste

December 17, 2014

Exposure to people infected with the Ebola virus isn’t the only danger related to the disease. Waste contaminated with the virus – such as medical and laboratory items -- can pose a serious hazard to workers who are tasked with handling, transporting and treating it.


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MSF health staff in protective clothing constructing perimeter for Ebola isolation ward.

CDC: More needs to be done to contain Ebola

Despite some progress, one new outbreak or cluster a day
November 24, 2014

The effort to contain the Ebola epidemic in Liberia is showing preliminary signs of progress in some counties, but maintaining and extending these trends will require sustained efforts, according to three early-release articles in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on November 14.


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Time, hazmat certification are top Ebola challenges for hospitals

November 14, 2014

The lack of available time to train staff, and uncertainties about certifications to ship infectious substances, are the top challenges facing hospitals undertaking Ebola preparedness and safety precautions, according to a recently conducted survey by EH&E, Inc., a leading provider of environmental and engineering consulting services.


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Product Innovations

Accuform Signs creates two informative Ebola posters

November 6, 2014

Accuform Signs, North America’s leading manufacturer of facility identification solutions, announced today that they’ve created two informative Ebola posters warning of the dangers that Ebola may present to the industrial manufacturing sector and where you can access further information.


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NYC gets first Ebola case

Doctor returning from relief work in West Africa tests positive
October 24, 2014

A U.S. physician who just returned from Guinea has tested positive for the Ebola virus, according to news sources, who say that Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, had been in the West African country working for Doctors Without Borders.


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Public health

CDC: Travelers from Ebola-impacted countries will be monitored

Even those without symptoms will be checked for 21 days
October 23, 2014

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday that public health authorities will begin active post-arrival monitoring of travelers whose travel originates in Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea.


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The latest on Ebola

October 17, 2014

Here’s breaking news about the Ebola outbreak  from various news sources: A Texas hospital health worker who may have handled Thomas Eric Duncan's fluid samples has been quarantined on a cruise ship in Belize -- another reminder of the widespread fears of the deadly virus.


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