Five Lessons Learned During the Latest Ebola Outbreak in DRC

Publication language
English
Pages
1pp
Date published
27 Jun 2017
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Health
Countries
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Link
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/five-lessons-learned-during-latest-…

Four people died in the most recent Ebola outbreak that occurred in a remote, forested area of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This small outbreak (five laboratory-confirmed and three probable cases) was quickly curtailed. These are five lessons Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) learned from the first Ebola outbreak since the end of the epidemic that devastated West Africa in 2014 and 2015.