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Author(s): James Lyons-Weiler
ISBN(s): 9789814675918, 9814675911
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.31 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9814675911 
ISBN 13: 9789814675918
Author: James Lyons Weiler

Selected as CHOICE magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title, January 2017.The book is a narrative of the unfolding of the Ebola virus disease outbreak from a scientific view point. The author provides an analysis of the scientific basis of public health policies that have influenced the public’s, and the medical community’s, abilities to understand the virus and the disease. This is done in the context of providing insights into the biology of the virus, and exploring open questions, including its likely modes of transmission. The author has included citations from the scientific literature and the press, as well as quotes from expert interviews. The book will help sort out the fact from fiction, given the confusion that arose after the virus arrived in the US. The author used his objective research skills and knowledge of evolutionary genetics and molecular biology to find out what was known, and what questions remained unanswered, and even what questions remained unasked.Written in an accessible style, it is intended for the educated general public, scientists, policy makers, health care workers, and politicians. It delves into the problems of trying to derive a logic-based understanding of a highly lethal emerging disease in 2014, when research funding cuts have gutted research institutions, and when public health institutions really were woefully unprepared. It is a highly distinct narrative analysis that is sure to stimulate new research and thinking in public policy. It will inform thousands of people of the nature of the virus, how it works, in terms they are likely to be able to understand. It will allow others to rapidly catch up with the story of Ebola.

Ebola An Evolving Story 1st Table of contents:

1. Origins of the Epidemic
The Wee Beastie
The Molecular Battlefield
References
2. How Well Do We Understand the 2014 Ebolavirus ?
Phylogenies Are Not Data
Evolution Caught Red-handed
References
3. Ways in Which Ebola Guinea May Differ from Past Outbreaks: Evolution of Viral Phenotypes
“Going Airborne”
Shifting Other Routes of Transmission
Replicating More Slowly
Asymptomatic Transmission
Change in Host Tissue Virulence Patterns, and Primary Mode of Death
References
4. Biological Knowledge and Ebola Policy
Indirect Transmissions
MRSA Indirect Transmission Analogy
Doctors and Nurses, The First Line of Defense
Reverse White Coat Syndrome?
References
5. “How Cruel is That?”
“How Cruel is That?”
References
6. With Blinded Eyes
References
7. Are We Asking the Right Questions and Solving All the Right Problem(s)?
“We are Prepared to Handle an Ebola Outbreak in the United States”
Early Diagnosis to Protect the Public Health
References
8. Evolution is Real: Deadly Consequences of Dogma
References
9. Promising Treatments
Vaccine Development
Pharmaceutical Hopefuls
Managing the Spread via “Ebola-Free Zones”
Treating the Reservoir Hosts
Hemopurification (Dialysis)
References
10. Policy Analysis
Probabilities and Modes of Transmission
Self-Monitoring, Self-Quarantine, or Mandatory Quarantine?
No Mutations?
Can Humans get Ebola from Dogs?
Policy Assessment
Conclusions
Recommendations
References
11. A Rational Analysis of Irrational Decisions, or Don’t Fear the Reaper
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Fear and Government Policy
References
Appendix 1
(a) Penalties for persons violating quarantine laws
Appendix 2: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Clinical Outcomes Data Form

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