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- Title
Tackling emerging infections: clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014-2015.
- Authors
Walker, Naomi F.; Whitty, Christopher J. M.
- Abstract
The magnitude of the 2014-2015 West African Ebola virus disease outbreak was unforeseen at its onset and the initial international response was slow. The high mortality and the panic that this outbreak induced had a major effect on health systems. In this article we discuss some of the key public health and clinical lessons from this Ebola outbreak, including combining epidemiology, modelling and anthropology, and the initial evidence for the importance of fluid and antibiotic management.
- Subjects
AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE diseases; EBOLA virus disease; DISEASE outbreaks; POLYMERASE chain reaction; VIRAL vaccines; EARLY diagnosis; EBOLA virus
- Publication
Clinical Medicine, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 5, p457
- ISSN
1470-2118
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7861/clinmedicine.15-5-457