[Media Watch] Being an Ebola virus hunter

Guido van der Groen, author of the book On the trail of Ebola: my life as a virus hunter, was starting his career as a researcher in the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, when the outbreak of Ebola virus disease was declared in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1976. Similarly, I was working in Connaught Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, when the declaration of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea came in March, 2014. It was my first job in global health as the clinical lead of a small health organisation, and, like van der Groen, I found myself with a desire to get involved in the outbreak (infectious diseases doctors tend to volunteer for things that others run away from) but without enough experience to understand what it would imply.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Media Watch Source Type: research