RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Tackling emerging infections: clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014–2015
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 457
OP 460
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-5-457
VO 15
IS 5
A1 Walker, Naomi F
A1 Whitty, Christopher JM
YR 2015
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/5/457.abstract
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.