Face of a Pandemic: The West Africa Ebola Outbreak

Global Health Security Agenda. 03/02/2017 This one-hour, two-minute webinar discusses the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, when an infectious and deadly pathogen with no known cure was rapidly spreading in multiple densely poorly resourced and populated cities in a region. It details the numbers of people served per pathologist in sub-Saharan Africa, the lack of preparedness for biosecurity threats in Africa, and how Ebola exposed the inadequate capacity to deal with pandemic events. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 3, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news