Category: 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak

Working collaboratively to support Ebola response efforts in Sierra Leone

CDC’s FETP partnerships with African nations continue to be leveraged beyond their national borders and for new and unexpected health threats. Dr. Bao-Ping’s blog posted originally on March 31 is being highlighted again as a reminder of how FETPs support global as well as individual nation’s health security. In late November 2014, during the peak Read More >

June 15, 2015 by Bao-Ping Zhu, MD, PhD, MS, CDC Epidemiologist and Uganda FETP Resident Advisor1 Comment

Archive, Ebola, Emergency Response and Recovery, global disease detection

2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak, disease detectives, Ebola response, FETP, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Preparedness Workshops Help At-Risk Countries Prepare for Ebola

Figure 1: Real time contact tracing system used in Nigeria to track Ebola resposne (September 9, 2014)

A recent news story in Bloomberg Businessweek proclaims “How to Avert an Ebola Nightmare: Lessons from Nigeria’s Victory.” The article outlines the remarkable achievement of Nigeria’s Ministry of Health with partners, including CDC, to contain the spread of Ebola in that country. Now declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria stands as a Read More >

November 4, 2014 by Frederick J. Angulo, DVM, PhD2 Comments

Archive, Ebola, global health security, infectious disease

2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak, Nigeria, West Africa