Ebola Virus Disease: Experience and Decision Making for the First Patients outside of Africa

PLoS Med. 2015 Jul 28;12(7):e1001857. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001857. eCollection 2015 Jul.

Authors

David S Stephens¹, Bruce S Ribner¹, Bryce D Gartland¹, Nancye R Feistritzer¹, Monica M Farley¹, Christian P Larsen¹, John T Fox¹

Affiliation

¹ Emory Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, Emory Ebola Task Force, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Healthcare, the Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

Abstract

David Stephens and colleagues describe their experience of treating patients with Ebola virus disease at Emory University in the United States.

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Decision Making
Disease Outbreaks / history
Georgia
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / history
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / therapy*
History, 21st Century
Hospitals, University
Humans
Infection Control / organization & administration*
Patient Isolation / organization & administration

Grants and funding

No funding was received for this work.