PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Naomi F Walker
AU  - Christopher JM Whitty
TI  - Tackling emerging infections: clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014–2015
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-5-457
DP  - 2015 Oct 05
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 457--460
VI  - 15
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/5/457.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/5/457.full
SO  - Clin Med2015 Oct 05; 15
AB  - 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.