Recommendations include executive-level management that spells out a national plan, pulls together a policy council, and unifies the biodefense budget.
For the 2nd week in a row, Guinea reported 3 new Ebola patients, all from the same family and one pregnant.
Two of the new cases were not part of known transmission chains, which is a concern.
The condition of a Scottish nurse who is hospitalized with neurologic complications following an Ebola infection has been upgraded from critical to serious but stable, Royal Free London hospital said yesterday in an update.
The ECDC says more study is needed on the reappearance of viral RNA in a UK nurse.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) this week published a report on a 2-day medical countermeasure workshop it held in late March to discuss how to how better develop and deliver medical countermeasures (MCMs) for emerging infectious disease threats, based on challenges that flared up during West Africa's Ebola outbreak.
Scottish nurse has a severe CNS disorder, and her spinal fluid tested positive for Ebola.
A CDC review finds that 17 states exceeded the agency's Ebola screening and monitoring policies.
Two studies shed new light on the threat of sexual transmission by survivors.
The threat of more cases still looms in West Africa, with contacts still being traced.
