Ebola: medical guidance and lessons from West Africa with Dr Tom Fletcher

BMJ Clinical Director Dr Kieran Walsh speaks with Dr Tom Fletcher (http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-tom-fletcher) about Ebola infection. Dr Tom Fletcher is a Wellcome Trust/Ministry of Defence Research Training Fellow and an Infectious Diseases Speciality Registrar in Liverpool. He is a physician in the Defence Medical Services and his research is on investigating the pathogenesis of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever. He is specifically interested in viral haemorrhagic fevers and, during a recent secondment with the World Health Organisation, was deployed to West Africa to help with the Ebola outbreak. Here are links to studies and guidelines that were referred to. Ebola: Technical guidance documents for medical staff from the World Health Organisation (WHO)- http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/protective-measures-staff/en/. Implementing an Ebola Vaccine Study — Sierra Leone - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/su/pdfs/su6503a14.pdf. Phase 1 Trials of rVSV Ebola Vaccine in Africa and Europe - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1502924. To learn more about Ebola Virus Infection, visit BMJ Best Practice (http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/1210.html). _

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