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The vaccine is controlling deaths -- but what we're seeing is a virus that has established itself as endemic, and in some countries it's made greater progress than others because there have been less rigid controls.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If the WHO loses its funding it cannot continue to do its work. It works on a shoe-string budget already, of course it would be disastrous for the WHO to lose funding.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
They'll be available if this outbreak continues for any long period of time, but nobody knows what will happen to this outbreak.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The health risks for people in the city depends on how they're closing it down.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
A border doesn't stop infections, people can cross borders while they're in the incubation period. So screening will pick out some, but it certainly won't get others, so what's important at screening is to tell people, not only' we're taking your temperature'. But giving them some kind of notification about where they go should they get a fever.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The CDC might have access to info that WHO doesn't have, and vice versa.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
But social media has become active ... and that's an area that's difficult to control.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If a health system cannot handle (an outbreak), there's pandemonium.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Infectious agents travel around in humans many times within their incubation period.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The rodents that live there can't get food and go into human areas for food.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Lassa fever occurs because people live in the forest and destroy it for farming.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have to deal with that as a reality, it's difficult to manage health worker migration.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If (an infection) stays local, it burns out, people learn what to do.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The experts at the meeting felt there was no reason to decrease travel to these areas. What is important( is) for people to understand their individual risk they undergo when they go to these areas. The risk of international spread is not a significant concern.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This infection is a predicament for all people of child-bearing age who live in Brazil or who travel to Brazil. And that includes both men and women, women could get infected and come back and become pregnant within three weeks or four weeks, or they could be pregnant when they get there. And men could go there and come back with the infection and infect their sexual partner back home.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The problem is not the Olympics, the problem is other travel besides the Olympics, if there is a problem, people go in and out of Brazil all the time for holiday, for business, for whatever. And the Olympics is much less travel, it would be one-time travel. It's actually in the winter months when hopefully transmission (of the virus) is less.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The government has made the right recommendations about infection control in health facilities...the virus is passed from person to person by poor infection control.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
They urinate and defecate on the rice, which makes the uncooked rice a source of human infection.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
When the rains are over, the rats then come closer to humans to steal grains.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
What we see in Brazil now is what could occur in Colombia and other countries in the next few months and it's very alarming.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It doesn't surprise me that in Liberia where there has been a much more intense Ebola information campaign, quarantine and a military intervention that the disease has been brought under control faster than in Guinea.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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