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Pre-course reading
The hot topics below are set for discussion at this year's Global Health Forum. Listed are 5 pdf documuments and webpage articles that we ask you to kindly read before attending the forum to provide background and insight into these very current global health issues.
Timeline of the disease
1976 : Emergence of virus; outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan
1979 : Ebola virus disappears! Not recognised again until 1994
1994 onwards : further outbreaks in Central Africa with increasing frequency
March 2014- now: the current outbreak (the largest yet) confirmed in West Africa :
Siera Leone 1107 cases, Liberia 403 cases, Guinea 579 cases, Nigeria 16, Senegal 1. The number of suspected cases and deaths however is much higher!
[http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ebola-virus/pages/ebola-virus.aspx]
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Ebola Outbreak 2014
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Ebola Outbreak 2014
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1. EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
2. VACCINES
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3. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
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4. RESOURCE SCARCITY
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5. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FRAGILE STATES
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