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Pianka's acceptance speech [14] for the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science [15] resulted in a controversy in the popular press when Forrest Mims, vice-chair of the Academy's section on environmental science, claimed that Pianka had "enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola."
The first case of Ebola disease ever recorded occurred in August 1976 in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire). [12] The first victim of the disease was the village school headmaster, who had toured an area near the Central African Republic border along the Ebola river in ...
Stating that "the Ebola outbreak has decimated families, health systems, economies, and social structures", the WHO called the aftermath of the epidemic "an emergency within an emergency." [327] [328] On 22 January, the WHO issued Clinical Care for Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease: Interim Guidance. The guidance covers specific issues like ...
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. [1] Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after infection. [3] The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. [1]
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On 30 September, a cameraman was tested positive for Ebola in a Texas hospital after contracting the disease before traveling back to the United States from Liberia. He covered the Ebola outbreak for NBC News [46] [47] (see 2014 Ebola virus cases in the United States). Following this the Liberian government enacted strict restrictions on ...
The country was declared free of Ebola transmission on 29 December 2015, 42 days after the last Ebola patient tested negative for a second time. [34] Guinea was subsequently in a 90-day period of heightened surveillance according to the U.N. World Health Organization which also offered assistance [ 3 ] - with funding from the agency's donors.
In March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a major Ebola outbreak in Guinea, a western African nation, [1] the disease then rapidly spread to the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone with smaller outbreaks occurring in Senegal, Nigeria, and Mali; the resulting West African Ebola virus epidemic is the largest Ebola outbreak (cases and deaths) ever documented.