Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience
by Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, Committee on Clinical Trials During the 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak
English | July 28, 2017 | ASIN: B074CCDS3F | 343 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan).