The ebola outbreak in west africa not only posed a huge threat to children and their families in infected countries but more widely to public health systems and communities on the continent. Aug 04, 2015 the 711 number is used for ebola vaccine trial participants, while the 117 number is the national ebola hotline. The outbreak is the first in west africa and the first to affect major cities. The emerging infectious diseases journal has published many articles on ebola. In a study of 122 children from 5 ebola units during the 20142015 outbreak, bleeding was rare at presentation 5% and manifested subsequently in fewer than 50%. Ocha coordinates the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises. In the 2001 ebola virus outbreak in uganda and sudan, all children with laboratoryconfirmed ebola virus disease were febrile and only 16% had hemorrhage. The epidemiological data detailing the number of ebola cases is updated by the world health organization who.
A vaccine, rvsvzebov, has been developed against the strain that caused the 2015 west african outbreak. All tweets were extracted without any personal data to comply with ethical. It contains information on the west saharan response to ebola as well as highlights from the field in west africa from dr. In the recent ebola outbreak its now clear that superspreaders were an important component in driving the epidemic, said benjamin dalziel of oregon state university, who helped write the new study. The unprecedented ebola epidemic in west africa took the lives of more than 11,300 of the 28,600 people infected with the disease. For graphs, geographical distribution and more details see the weekly report on wednesdays. Although only twitter is discussed in this article, twitter activity during the recent ebola outbreak was more likely to coincide with news events rather than disease dynamics. The natural and human history of a deadly virus by. We collected tweets mentioning ebola in english during the early stage of the current ebola outbreak from july 24august 1, 2014.
Odlum and yoon collected over 42,000 tweets related to ebola during the outbreak in summer 2014 28. The natural and human history of a deadly virus by david quammen ebola. The hot zone elicited a major response by the who by shedding light on the ebola zaire outbreak. In humans, ebolaviruses are responsible for ebola virus disease evd, an illness characterized primarily by fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, and hemorrhaging. List of books and articles about ebola online research. Through content analysis of social media data, like tweets, public health. Using twitter in outbreak surveillance is immense, allowing for realtime data capture. The cdc foundation provides support to both centers. Ebola virus is transmitted in body fluids and secretions. Innovative technological approach to ebola virus disease. Ending ebola the childrens investment fund foundation.
Richard prestons the hot zone, an instant no1 bestseller when it. Pdf analyzing and visualizing the sentiment of the ebola outbreak. Constructed coauthorship networks between author affiliated institutions showed evd research publications increased and networks evolved over. The journal published its first ebola article in 1995, volume 1, issue number 3. In this webinar, cindy love, specialist in public health information management with the national library of medicine, discussed the nature of information flow during an infectious disease outbreak, with. You have more to worry about from the flu or norovirus science roundup photos, links, videos updated jan 10, 2019. It is used by local, state, and territorial health departments in the united states to report all waterborne and foodborne disease outbreaks and enteric disease outbreaks transmitted by contact with environmental sources, infected persons or animals, or. Ebolavirus, genus of viruses in the family filoviridae, certain members of which are particularly fatal in humans and nonhuman primates. Build the ebola database in africa nature research. Pdf the ebola virus outbreak has produced some of the most significant and fastest. Anti ebola therapy for patients with ebola virus disease. Twitter can support similar efforts for mass dissemination. The ebola virus can cause severe illness and death in people and other primates. Why this ebola outbreak is different than earlier versions.
With a simple embed code, a hospital, health system, library, or health department website administrator can pull in a collection of dozens of cdc pages, a news feed, and a twitter feed featuring the most current ebola content, guidance and resources for healthcare practitioners. Ebola disasters and public health research guide library. With the query term ebola or ebola virus, we collected 16,189 news articles from 1006 different publications and 7,106,297 tweets with the twitter stream api. The release of teams of experts was immediate and massive. Cindy love, national library of medicine managing health information resources for ebola is now available online, along with the powerpoint slides. A terrifying true story is a bestselling 1994 nonfiction thriller by richard preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly ebolaviruses and marburgviruses. The 202015 outbreak of ebola was by far the largest to date. Ebola virus ebov infection is a widespread infection that has created a bad memory in africa. At the 117 ebola call center in freetown, over 100 operators work in three shifts to answer questions about sierra leones outbreak 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the 2014 and 2015 outbreak, more than 28,000 infections were reported by the world health organization, with about 11,300 deaths in guinea, liberia, and sierra leone. Topicbased content and sentiment analysis of ebola virus on twitter and in the news. In fact, odlum et al studied the use of twitter as a realtime method of ebola outbreak surveillance 12. Analysing published global ebola virus disease research. By connecting international health to national security, this campaign used the hot zone as a method of justifying increased intervention in the global phenomena of disease.
Data free fulltext using twitter for public health surveillance. The terrifying true story of the origins of the ebola virus by richard preston, ebola. We first extracted data from twitter by accessing the live stream api of twitter, using the tweepy package. Ebola hemorrhagic fever alternatively ebola haemorrhagic fever, ehf, or just ebola is a very rare, but severe, mostly fatal infectious disease occurring in humans and.
Health systems in west africa were illprepared for the arrival of ebola virus disease ebola. Richard prestons the hot zone, an instant no1 bestseller when it was published in 1994. When a weak, feverish person comes into a clinic in africa, there is no quick, reliable way to know whether the illness is ebola or one of many other diseases. Aug 01, 2014 fear over the ebola outbreak in west africa is growing as leaders struggle to try to stop the deadly virus. This week, the cdc predicted there could be tens of thousands of ebola cases if the disease is not controlled soon. Constructed coauthorship networks between author affiliated institutions showed evd research publications increased and networks evolved over time. The epidemic represented not just a problem for west africa, but for the world. Longitudinal analysis of host transcriptome response in wholeblood from cynomolgus macaques vaccinated with vsvebov 28, 21, 14, 7, and 3 days before ebov challenge. Chughtai, helping to solve the primary question of whats next and aiding in. Why this ebola outbreak is different than earlier versions in 1976, dr. Daily updates on the ebola outbreak 2012 from the ministry of health, uganda. Social media posts and online searches hold vital clues.
Our analysis for this observational study includes time series analysis with geologic visualization to observe information dissemination and content analysis using natural language processing to examine public knowledge and attitudes. Analyzing and visualizing the sentiment of the ebola outbreak via tweets. I found this book to be utterly fascinating and wow is it ever a page turner. It is engaging, contains enough human interest to keep us interested, and enough fact to shed light on a serious problem in west africa. Virus pathogen database and analysis resource vipr. This is actually a book originally published in 1995 and is not about the 2014 or any recent outbreak, but primarily about an outbreak of ebola in monkeys in the united states decades ago which fortunately didnt kill any humans. Fear over the ebola outbreak in west africa is growing as leaders struggle to try to stop the deadly virus. David heymann of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine helped curb the first ebola outbreak in what was then. The ebola outbreak in liberia was declared on march 31, 2014, and peaked in september 2014. Sep 26, 2014 this week, the cdc predicted there could be tens of thousands of ebola cases if the disease is not controlled soon. They collected tweets during the 2014 ebola outbreak, and they found that tweets. The 711 number is used for ebola vaccine trial participants, while the 117 number is the national ebola hotline. So, if you like medicine and mystery and a great story, this is the book for you.
Five years later, it tapped the who twitter feed and other sources to track the spread of the ebola virus, which ultimately killed more than 11,000 people in west africa. The surveillance outbreak response management and analysis system sormas is an opensource mobile and web application software that we developed to enable health workers to notify health departments about new cases of epidemicprone diseases, detect outbreaks, and simultaneously manage outbreak response. Microsoft, redmond, wa, usa comprised data on all patients admitted to the 2 elwa etus elwa1 and elwa2. The terrifying true story of the origins of the ebola. Pdf topicbased content and sentiment analysis of ebola virus on. Bette korber, and translated much of its tools, infrastructure and philosophy from hiv to hfv. Very good book from a doc who was there for the first recognized outbreak of ebola in zaire in the 1970s. Ebola vaccine works, study shows an ebola epidemic in guinea, sierra leone and liberia in. In humans, ebolaviruses are responsible for ebola virus disease evd, an illness characterized primarily by fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, and. Author alaya dawn johnson turns to a favorite novel for wisdom amid this epidemic.
An expanded definition of public health outbreak surveillance is needed as social media content can be used to support and enhance existing early warning systems. The natural and human history of a deadly virus is a very interesting behindthescenes look at the quest to find the host animal carrying this devastating virus. This is a true account of the ebola outbreak that includes graphic descriptions of the horrors of this terrible virus. For this, we extracted the live streaming data from twitter over time and studied its pattern based on the ebola timeline. Twitter data and measured opinion proportions in topic such as business and. The ebola database stems from the hemorrhagic fever viruses hfv database project founded by dr. Who hails triumph as merck ebola vaccine gets european green light. Ebola hemorrhagic fever alternatively ebola haemorrhagic fever, ehf, or just ebola is a very rare, but severe, mostly fatal infectious disease occurring in humans and other primates, caused by.
As such, the model created using the cellphone data, combined with the latest. The 2014 ebola outbreak is the largest outbreak in history, with more than 3,600 infections and 1,800 deaths as of the end of august, according to the world health organization. Topicbased content and sentiment analysis of ebola virus. The national outbreak reporting system nors is a webbased platform that launched in 2009. With the query term ebola or ebola virus, we collected 16,189 news articles. Underreporting of cases during a large outbreak of disease is not without precedent 15. Jun 01, 2015 twitter can support similar efforts for mass dissemination. It was effective, but it was experimental and saw limited use during the outbreak. Oct 28, 2014 all current writing on ebola has to reckon with a single, largely outdated book. What can we learn about the ebola outbreak from tweets. All current writing on ebola has to reckon with a single, largely outdated book.
This brief book is a product of sections of his 2012 book spillover and recent events. From origins to outbreak covers ebola virus disease in its entirety from its origins through major outbreaks in the past to the present day outbreak. Everyone needs to learn more about the way an outbreak is just a few viral transmissions away from an epidemic and. The cure for ebola cant be found by pointing fingers, but that wont stop some conservatives from playing the obama blame game. This book continued to fuel the emerging diseases campaign. Oct 01, 2014 ebola virus is transmitted in body fluids and secretions. These data were collected on mohsw case forms and entered into a database emulating these forms using epi info version 7 software centers for disease control and prevention, atlanta, ga, usa. International conference on knowledge discovery and data mining.
To build trust, capacity and utility, put local researchers in charge of planned platform, says brian conton. Information resource web page resulted in 2100 visits to the page in the month ending september 19, 2014. The basis of the book was prestons 1992 new yorker article crisis in the hot zone. Aug 17, 2014 why this ebola outbreak is different than earlier versions in 1976, dr. The full extent of the 2017 outbreak is still not yet clear. We advocate for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all. Genetics of the 2014 ebola outbreak national institutes. Ebola spotlight emerging infectious diseases journal cdc. Prepare for an ebola outbreak and ebola virus info, were that both the news events and disease dynamics were discussed in a factual manner. Topicbased content and sentiment analysis of ebola virus on. Ebola patients among medical workers in spain and obamas speech on the outbreak provided new fuel for social media hoaxes recently, according to social media risk management specialists zerofox. Cdc foundation supports response to ebola epidemic in west. The basis of the book was prestons 1992 new yorker article crisis in the hot zone the filovirusesincluding ebola virus, sudan virus, marburg virus, and ravn virusare. Twitter map outlines some elementary geography a rudimentary graphic has hit a nerve online by demonstrating that most of continent is free of the deadly virus although.
How big data could help stop the ebola outbreakcommentary. Use of capturerecapture to estimate underreporting of ebola. Author summary ebola virus disease evd research publications were used to analyse and visualise collaborations between institutions jointly publishing research results, using freely available social network analysis tools. Use of capturerecapture to estimate underreporting of.