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Ebola: Experiences from the field - Liberia
Abstract
The experience of all those who have worked with Ebola during the current outbreak has been different, and varied by time and place. I worked with Médicins sans Frontières in Monrovia during October/November 2014. This was the first-ever outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the overcrowded and impoverished areas of a capital city; Ebola was spreading rapidly, and case management had to be upscaled on an unprecedented basis. It was also a time of many questions: for clinicians, these centred on how to optimise survival, and how to maximise care in a resource-limited environment.
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Rosie Burton, Physician and Infectious Diseases Specialist, Khayelitsha District Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Date published: 2015-11-22
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