{"id":3378,"date":"2014-10-30T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2014-10-31T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:29:34","slug":"ebola-status-quo-in-liberia-could-be-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ebola-status-quo-in-liberia-could-be-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: Status quo in Liberia could be deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mathematical model suggests that no single intervention is sufficient to curb the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The authors modelled the potential effect of four non-pharmaceutical interventions recommended by the WHO, such as isolating Ebola cases at hospitals, quarantining patients\u2019 contacts, and implementing sanitary funeral practices.<\/p>\n<p>Their model suggest that no single intervention is sufficient, and that multiple interventions are needed. The model also shows that by December, hundreds of new infections could arise daily in Liberia alone under the status quo.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in <em>Science\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>October 30, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/publichealth.yale.edu\/people\/alison_galvani.profile\" target=\"_blank\">Alison P. Galvani<\/a>, Yale School of Public Health, USA<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematical model suggests that no single intervention is sufficient to curb the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The authors modelled the potential effect of four non-pharmaceutical interventions recommended by the WHO, such as isolating Ebola cases at hospitals, quarantining patients\u2019 contacts, and implementing sanitary funeral practices. Their model suggest that no single intervention is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Su","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}