Ebola in West Africa:an international medical emergency

作     者：Yasir Waheed 

作者机构：Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences(ASAB)National University of Sciences and Technology 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第9期

页      面：673-674页

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Ebola West Africa Therapeutics Health workers 

摘      要：West Africa is facing the worst Ebola outbreak with 3685 cases and 1841 deaths reported from Liberia,Cuinea,Senegal,Sierra Leona and *** is no vaccine or direct treatment available to treat the patients with *** Health Organization(WHO) has approved the use of experimental drugs for Ebola *** workers are at high *** governments and WHO are responsible to provide necessary protective equipment to health workers dealing with *** is a strong need to identify the invisible chains of virus *** Bank pledges $200 million to fight against Ebola,while WHO said $430 million are needed to control the Ebola *** can be contained by early detection and isolation of case,contact tracing,monitoring of contacts and adaptation of rigorous procedures for virus control.