Monday, 16 July, 2018

Ebola 2014

Posted on Thursday, 16 October, 2014Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Ebola 2014

The current Ebola outbreak has caught governments unprepared to tackle its spread to population centres outside west Africa. This 9 minutes video features some commentary from Dr. Joel Montgomery, Team Leader for US Centers for Disease Control Ebola outbreak response in Liberia. He is a specialist in hemorrhagic fevers, currently based in the US-CDC office in Nairobi and he shares some of his perspective on the outbreak based on his two separate deployments to the outbreak in Liberia.

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