Ebola Virus Imported from Guinea to Senegal, 2014

Kà, Daye; Fall, Gamou; Diallo, Viviane Cissé; Faye, Ousmane; Fortes, Louise; Faye, Oumar; Bah, Elhadji Ibrahim; Diallo, Kadia Mbaye; Balique, Fanny; Ndour, Cheikh Tidiane; Seydi, Moussa; Sall, Amadou Alpha

doi:10.3201/eid2306.161092

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“…Many Peul reduced the frequency of trips to Guinea, diminished the number of visitors from Guinea they hosted, quizzed would-be visitors from Guinea on their contact history and kept a close eye on the health of visitors during their stay in Senegal (Interviews 19, 21). By the end of the epidemic in 2016, only one person infected with the virus had travelled from Guinea to Senegal (Ka et al 2017).…”

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Epidemics and intra-communal contestations: Ekeh, ‘les Guinéens’and Ebola in West Africa

Onoma

2018

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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As the Ebola epidemic ravaged the Mano River Basin in 2014, there was concern in Senegal that the resident Peul community of Guinean origins will cause the spread of the disease to Senegal. These fears went unrealized as the Peul migrants embraced many of the epidemic control and prevention measures, which often distanced them from primordial publics in Guinea. While partly motivated by concern over the dangers of Ebola, Peul migrants embraced these measures also because the epidemic and measures advocated to curb it allowed them to assert greater autonomy in their often-fractious relations with primordial publics in their places of origin in Guinea. Their embrace of these measures suggests a rethink of the emphasis on intercommunal strife, intra-communal conviviality and trenchant state-society chasms, which pervades much work on the political economy of postcolonial Africa and which draws significant inspiration from the work of Peter Ekeh.

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Epidemics and intra-communal contestations: Ekeh, ‘les Guinéens’and Ebola in West Africa

Onoma

2018

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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“…Pikine's population in 2013 stood at 1,170,791, making it the most populated department in the country whose population then stood at 13,508,715 inhabitants (ANSD 2016:11). The fact that Dakar was the place where the only Ebola case in Senegal occurred (Ka et al 2017;Desclaux & Sow 2015) makes the study of xenophobic responses to the epidemic there particularly rewarding. Pikine has a significant Peul community with links to Guinea, making the study of attitudes toward them by other residents of Senegal viable.…”

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Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic: Proximity and the Targeting of Peul Migrants in Senegal

Onoma¹

2019

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Abstract:This article examines the effect of geographical proximity on targeting patterns during Ebola-era xenophobic outbursts by Senegalese against a migrant Peul population of Guinean origins. It highlights the limited extent to which epidemics shape the micro-dynamics of outbreaks of xenophobia during public health crises, demonstrating that epidemics are not defining events that inflect inter-group relations. They mostly reinforce long-persisting patterns of exclusion. The conclusion is that the contours of xenophobia in contexts marked by public health crises and in those situations in which these issues of public health do not constitute a major concern tend to mirror each other.

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“…Heavy-and light-chain sequences are then obtained through reverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Although this single B-cell isolation can be used to efficiently isolate potent neutralizing antibodies, it is time-consuming and requires a [34,35]. The virulence of these five Ebola viruses varies, and ZEBOV has the highest mortality rate of 90% [7].…”

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Human monoclonal antibodies as candidate therapeutics against emerging viruses

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Front. Med.

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The emergence of new pathogens, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and Ebola virus, poses serious challenges to global public health and highlights the urgent need for novel antiviral approaches. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been successfully used to treat various diseases, particularly cancer and immunological disorders. Antigen-specific mAbs have been isolated using several different approaches, including hybridoma, transgenic mice, phage display, yeast display, and single B-cell isolation. Consequently, an increasing number of mAbs, which exhibit high potency against emerging viruses in vitro and in animal models of infection, have been developed. In this paper, we summarize historical trends and recent developments in mAb discovery, compare the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to mAb production, and discuss the potential use of such strategies for the development of antivirals against emerging diseases. We also review the application of recently developed human mAbs against SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and Ebola virus and discuss prospects for the development of mAbs as therapeutic agents against emerging viral diseases.

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Ebola Virus Imported from Guinea to Senegal, 2014

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Epidemics and intra-communal contestations: Ekeh, ‘les Guinéens’and Ebola in West Africa

Epidemics and intra-communal contestations: Ekeh, ‘les Guinéens’and Ebola in West Africa

Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic: Proximity and the Targeting of Peul Migrants in Senegal

Human monoclonal antibodies as candidate therapeutics against emerging viruses

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