Tropical Medicine Research Guide

10/14/2014 - This four-and-a-half-hour symposium convened thought leaders to put the Ebola virus disease outbreak into perspective, discuss possible therapeutics, and strategize best options for response in the short- and long-term. A keynote speaker, five presentations, and a multidisciplinary panel addressed topics that included a lack of coordination and leadership at the global level, an overview of experimental medical countermeasures for Ebola, and ethical decisions that need grappling with in real-time

October 9, 2014
Speaker: Cindy Love, National Library of Medicine
Managing health information resources for Ebola is now available online, along with the PowerPoint slides. 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 a special focus on Ebola-related resources from the National Library of Medicine.

25 August 2014

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have put together a web site in response to the outbreak of Ebola in Africa. This resource will have the most up to date information.

page last updated: September 10, 2014

Updates daily.

Mostly newspaper headlines from around the world. Check the currency of stories.

Use filters: Publication Date, Source, Location, Language

European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. It is an EU agency with aim to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases. It is seated in Stockholm, Sweden.

U.N. Portal on Pandemic Influenza. Look at the Emerging Threats tab.

Contains grey literature: the result of daily searches of federal and international government and agency websites

NLM Disaster Management Center

October 9, 2014
Speaker: Cindy Love, National Library of Medicine
Managing health information resources for Ebola is now available online, along with the PowerPoint slides. 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 a special focus on Ebola-related resources from the National Library of Medicine.

25 August 2014

Updated daily. Find guidelines from CDC, World Health Organization and others; reports; government documents; factsheets and more.

Genome and protein sequences is now available from the NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information

by Marcia Gaudet, author of Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America and professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

Morbidity and mortality weekly reports for Ebola

October 31, 2014 - Highlights practical examples of the work of the CDC-funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers' (PERLCs) toward improving both the quality of and capacity for public health preparedness training and evaluation for the frontline public health workforce

Begin your search by perusing the Medical Subject Heading (MESH) thesaurus. Use subheadings to search more specifically.

From home page, select Clinical Queries and use term ebola hemorrhagic fever. Narrow results to select clinical study categories, systematic reviews, and medical genetics.

Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made this collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public

Bausch DG, Schwarz L (2014) Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea: Where Ecology Meets Economy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(7): e3056. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003056

Baize, S., Pannetier, D., Oestereich, L., Rieger, T., Koivogui, L., Magassouba, N., . . . Günther, S. (2014). Emergence of zaire ebola virus disease in guinea — preliminary report. N Engl J Med, doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1404505
PMID: 24738640

Ki, M. (2014). What do we really fear? the epidemiological characteristics of ebola and our preparedness. Epidemiology and Health, 36, e2014014. doi:10.4178/epih/e2014014 [doi]

Dr. Osterholm is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences and the Council of Foreign Relations.

Use these terms to find disaster-related journal articles in PubMed. From the Disaster Information Management Research Center

July 11, 2014

CDC Health Information for International Travel (commonly called the Yellow Book) is published every two years by CDC as a reference for those who advise international travelers about health risks. Travel notices, disease directory, Infectious Diseases Related To Travel, vaccine recommendations by destination.

The Harrison's Online chapter on Ebola and Marburg Viruses is openly available, no subscription required.

The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is a technical collaboration of existing institutions and networks who pool human and technical resources for the rapid identification, confirmation and response to outbreaks of international importance. The Network provides an operational framework to link this expertise and skill to keep the international community constantly alert to the threat of outbreaks and ready to respond.

ProMED-mail - the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases -is an Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health, including those in animals and in plants grown for food or animal feed.

The Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium is a partnership of research institutes whose mission is to promote global health and safety by creating new products to diagnose, treat and significantly reduce the incidence and mortality rate of viral hemorrhagic fevers.

Tulane requires you to store and update any changes to your personal travel information and local contact information in the secure MyTrips (formerly Personal Travel Locator) so contact can be made in an emergency.

World Health Organization Media Centre

Includes a reference list

Relief Central is a free mobile and web resource to assist relief workers, first responders, and others called to serve in disaster relief situations around the world.

Last Updated: September 11, 2014 04:14 GMT
International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.
Has educational material.

Found in WHO Media Centre/News/Statements.
Includes an audio file available of WHO's 8/12/2014 press conference with Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny.