Nigeria is Ebola free - no new cases since September. Heres a look at how they handled the outbreak. All outbreaks prior to this one in West Africa have been controlled through the implementation and strict maintenance of basic public health strategies – early diagnosis and isolation of infected individuals, provision of appropriate protective equipment for medical staff, contact tracing and education and awareness campaigns targeting the local population. But in the case of the current outbreak, the virus was able to spread in the highly dense and mobile population before these interventions could be put in place. popsci/article/science/break-transmission-how-nigeria-took-control-ebola
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:24:18 +0000
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