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Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium. bkerstie@jhsph.edu |
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| dc.creator |
Kerstiëns, B |
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| dc.creator |
Matthys, F |
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| dc.date |
1999-02 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T07:10:12Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T07:10:12Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Interventions to Control Virus Transmission During an Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Experience from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. 1999, 179 Suppl 1:S263-7 J. Infect. Dis. |
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| dc.identifier |
0022-1899 |
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| dc.identifier |
9988193 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10144/19312 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/handle/10144/19312 |
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| dc.identifier |
The Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10144/19312 |
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| dc.description |
On 6 May 1995, the Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) coordinator in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), received a request for assistance for what was believed to be a concurrent outbreak of bacillary dysentery and viral hemorrhagic fever (suspected Ebola hemorrhagic fever [EHF]) in the town of Kikwit, DRC. On 11 May, the MSF intervention team assessed Kikwit General Hospital. This initial assessment revealed a nonfunctional isolation ward for suspected EHF cases; a lack of water and electricity; no waste disposal system; and no protective gear for medical staff. The priorities set by MSF were to establish a functional isolation ward to deal with EHF and to distribute protective supplies to individuals who were involved with patient care. Before the intervention, 67 health workers contracted EHF; after the initiation of control measures, just 3 cases were reported among health staff and none among Red Cross volunteers involved in body burial. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Published by Infectious Diseases Society of America |
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| dc.relation |
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jid |
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| dc.rights |
Archived on this site with permission and copyright 200X by the Infectious Diseases Society of America |
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| dc.title |
Interventions to Control Virus Transmission During an Outbreak of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Experience from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. |
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