Following the conclusion of the SIMEX, trainers and participants reviewed and evaluated the performance of all involved actors in order to maximize timely, effective, and coordinated responses to an
EVD outbreak.
The advisory was released by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) following the declaration of
EVD as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Last month, several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries responded to a warning by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) that regional countries should seek to enhance disease surveillance at ports of entry and at health facilities following the categorisation of the current outbreak of the
EVD as a public health emergency.
The Ebola virus CANNOT spread to others until a person develops signs or symptoms of
EVD.
The application of
EVD is optional: in practice, the Secretary of State makes a case to the Attorney General that the conditions in a particular country would place returning foreign nationals at risk.
EVD survivors often have substantial long-term medical sequelae (4), and viable EBOV can persist in immunologically protected body sites, such as the male gonads and the chambers of the eye (5,6).
Ye Li, M.D., Ph.D., from Capital Medical University in Beijing, and colleagues performed preoperative and postoperative computed tomography (CT) scanning for every patient who needed
EVD insertion.
However, the article also highlighted that all
EVD alerts from neighbouring nations have been ruled out, indicating that the outbreak is contained in Congo at the moment.
EVD is a treatment that allows the temporary drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the ventricles of the brain, relieving raised intracranial pressure.
SAB-139 was produced from SAB's proprietary DiversitAb platform utilizing transgenic cattle (Tc Bovine) to produce large amounts of natural human, rather than bovine, antibodies in response to an antigen--in this case
EVD.