Thursday 17 May 2018

'Shocking' lack of research into care of patients with Ebola

'Shocking' lack of research into care of patients with Ebola Too much medical machismo meant that basic questions on how best to treat patients with Ebola were not answered during the world’s biggest outbreak of the disease in 2014.

Nearly 30,000 patients became ill – 11,000 of whom died – during the Ebola outbreak which struck Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia in 2014.

After the world was initially slow to respond to the disease, huge numbers of health care workers and researchers descended on the three countries to care for patients and to test out experimental new drugs. The Daily Telegraph

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