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Ebola Outbreak Control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

Richard Garfield ,
Peter Fonjungo ,
Gnakub Soke ,
Henry Baggett ,
Joel Montgomery ,
Richard Luce ,
John Klena ,
Placide Mbala-Kingebeni ,
Steve Ahuka  and
Dieudonne Mwamba
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Richard Garfield*
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Peter Fonjungo
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Gnakub Soke
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Henry Baggett
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Joel Montgomery
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Richard Luce
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John Klena
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Placide Mbala-Kingebeni
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, MOH, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Steve Ahuka
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, MOH, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dieudonne Mwamba
Affiliation:
National Public Health Institute, MOH, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfam
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, MOH, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Simon Agolory
Affiliation:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
*
Corresponding author: Richard Garfield RN, DrPH; Email: [email protected]
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Health Security is a major concern for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the second largest country in Africa, borders nine other countries, has more than 80 million inhabitants, and has suffered from decades of neglect and conflicts together with multiple recurrent disease outbreaks, including Ebola.

Type
Report from the Field
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 18 , 2024 , e287
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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