Media Availability: Recent Ebola Outbreak Highlights Need for Better Global Response

Media Availability: Recent Ebola Outbreak Highlights Need for Better Global Response

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NIAID Ebola Expert Offers Ideas on 

Improving Outbreak Response

Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D., an expert on Ebola virus and 

chief of NIAID’s Laboratory of Virology, emphasizes the need 

for real-time data sharing by scientists to improve the public 

health response to outbreaks, such as the Ebola outbreak 

currently underway in West Africa. Ebola virus disease is one 

of the world’s most deadly diseases, with a case fatality rate 

ranging from 30 to 90 percent.

Visit the NIAID website for more on Dr. Feldmann’s article 

“Ebola—A Surprise in West Africa?” published in the 

New England Journal of Medicine.