Revue de l'infirmière
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Revue de l'infirmière · Jun 2015
[Ebola virus disease and accredited specialist health institutions].
Ebola virus disease (EVD) went in the space of a few months from being a forgotten tropical disease to a global "health emergency". The scope of this Ebola virus epidemic (Zaire strain), which has broken out in West Africa, its spread and the high number of deaths reported among frontline health workers are unprecedented. This article describes how a specialist hospital deals with imported cases of EVD.
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Sophie and Pierre have enrolled in the operational team of a humanitarian organisation for two months, in order to help contain the Ebola epidemic. They landed in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, only yesterday.