Tackling Emerging Infections: Clinical and Public Health Lessons from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak, 2014-2015

Overview

Journal Clin Med (Lond)

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2015 Oct 3

PMID 26430185

Citations 10

Authors

Naomi F Walker

Christopher Jm Whitty

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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.

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