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Ebola situation assessment - 24 October 2014

Mali’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s first case of Ebola virus disease. The Ministry received positive laboratory results, from PCR testing, on Thursday and informed WHO immediately. In line with standard procedures, samples are being sent to a WHO-approved laboratory for further testing and diagnostic work.Details about...

24 OCTOBER 2014 : GENEVA - The World Health Organization convened a meeting with high-ranking government representatives from Ebola-affected countries and development partners, civil society, regulatory agencies, vaccine manufacturers and funding agencies yesterday to discuss and agree on how to fast track testing and deployment of vaccines in sufficient numbers to impact the Ebola...

Disease outbreak news 23 October 2014
On 21 October 2014, WHO was notified by the National IHR Focal Point for France of 4 cases of chikungunya locally-acquired infection in Montpellier, France. The cases were confirmed by tests conducted by the French National Reference Laboratory for arboviruses on 20 October 2014. This is the first time that locally-acquired transmission of chikungunya...

Disease Outbreak News - 24 October 2014
On 17 October 2014, WHO EURO was notified by the National IHR Focal Point for Turkey of a laboratory-confirmed case of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). On 11 October 2014, the patient died. This is the first MERS-CoV case in Turkey.

Details of the case are as follows:

The case is a 42-year-old male, Turkish...

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Geneviève Fioraso, secrétaire d’Etat en charge de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, tient à saluer le développement par le CEA d’un test diagnostic rapide du virus Ebola, eZYSCREEN, dont la phase d’industrialisation démarrera à la fin du mois.



Le laboratoire Inserm de haute sécurité microbiologique P4 Jean Mérieux a accordé sa validation technique sur la...

23 October 2014


Speaker Key
TJ        Tarik Jasarevic
KF       Keiji Fukuda
IN        Isabelle Nuttall
SB       Simeon Bennett
GS       Gabriela Sotomayor
MF      Miriam Falco
HB      Helen Branswell
AG      Anne Gulland
AN      Amy Nutt
KW     Karen Weintraub
JB        Jason Beaubien
SN       Stephanie Nebehay...

The third meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the IHR 2005 regarding the 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD, or “Ebola”) outbreak in West Africa was conducted with members and advisors of the Emergency Committee on Wednesday, 22 October 2014, from 1300 to 1710 CET.  


This meeting was convened in advance of the 3-month date of the expiration of...

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