Issue 41, October 10, 2014

Each Tuesday, to enhance awareness of emerging scientific knowledge, selected science clips will be posted here for the public health community. The focus is applied public health research and prevention science that has the capacity to improve health now.

1. Key Scientific Articles in Featured Topic Areas
   Subject matter experts decide what topic to feature, and articles are selected from the last 3 to 6 months of published literature. Key topic coincides monthly with other CDC products (e.g. Vital Signs).
   • Communicable Diseases - Ebola Virus Disease
     1. Ebola 2014 - new challenges, new global response and responsibility
        Frieden TR, Damon I, Bell BP, Kenyon T, Nichol S.
        N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 25;371(13):1177-80.
        
     2. Scale up the supply of experimental Ebola drugs
        Brady O.
        Nature. 2014 Aug 21;512(7514):233.
        
     3. Ebola virus disease in West Africa - no early end to the outbreak
        Chan M.
        N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 25;371(13):1183-5.
        
     4. Preparing for critical care services to patients with Ebola
        Decker BK, Sevransky JE, Barrett K, Davey RT, Chertow DS.
        Ann Intern Med. 2014 Sep 23.
        
     5. The Ebola emergency - immediate action, ongoing strategy
        Farrar JJ, Piot P.
        N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 22.
        
     6. Assessment of Ebola virus disease, health care infrastructure, and preparedness - four counties, southeastern Liberia, August 2014
        Forrester JD, Pillai SK, Beer KD, Bjork A, Neatherlin J, Massaquoi M, Nyenswah TG, et al.
        MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 7;63:1-3.
        
     7. Caring for critically ill patients with Ebola virus disease. Perspectives from West Africa
        Fowler RA, Fletcher T, Fischer WA, Lamontagne F, Jacob S, Brett-Major D, Lawler JV, et al.
        Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014 Oct 1;190(7):733-7.
        
     8. Ebola virus disease outbreak - West Africa, September 2014
        Incident Management System Ebola Epidemiology Team- CDC , Ministries of Health of Guinea- Sierra Leone- Liberia- Nigeria-, and Senegal , Viral Special Pathogens Branch- National Center for Emerging, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases- CDC .
        MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 3;63(39):865-6.
        
     9. Safe management of patients with serious communicable diseases: recent experience with Ebola virus
        Isakov A, Jamison A, Miles W, Ribner B.
        Ann Intern Med. 2014 Sep 23.
        
     10. Estimating the future number of cases in the Ebola epidemic - Liberia and Sierra Leone, 2014-2015
         Meltzer MI, Atkins CY, Santibanez S, Knust B, Petersen BW, Ervin ED, Nichol ST, et al.
         MMWR Surveill Summ. 2014 Sep 26;63:1-14.
         
     11. Reversion of advanced Ebola virus disease in nonhuman primates with ZMapp
         Qiu X, Wong G, Audet J, Bello A, Fernando L, Alimonti JB, Fausther-Bovendo H, et al.
         Nature. 2014 Oct 2;514(7520):47-53.
         
     12. A new approach for monitoring ebolavirus in wild great apes
         Reed PE, Mulangu S, Cameron KN, Ondzie AU, Joly D, Bermejo M, Rouquet P, et al.
         PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Sep;8(9):e3143.
         
     13. Ebola virus disease outbreak - Nigeria, July-September 2014
         Shuaib F, Gunnala R, Musa EO, Mahoney FJ, Oguntimehin O, Nguku PM, Nyanti SB, et al.
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 3;63(39):867-72.
         
     14. Ebola virus disease in West Africa - the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections
         WHO Ebola Response Team.
         N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 22.
         
     15. The Ebola outbreak in Western Africa: ethical obligations for care
         Yakubu A, Folayan MO, Sani-Gwarzo N, Nguku P, Peterson K, Brown B.
         J Med Ethics. 2014 Sep 9.
         
   
   

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