CDC Around the World: Ebola in Sierra Leone

CDC Around the World: Ebola in Sierra Leone

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Health care workers participate in a simulation exercise on Ebola infection prevention and control in Freetown, Sierra Leone. View full-sized photo

Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Ebola in Sierra Leone

CDC Ebola Updates

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Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Ebola in Sierra Leone

Blog of the Week HARD BUT FULLFILLING WORK IN THE FIGHT AGAINST EBOLA  The fruit bat dropped silently from the delivery room ceiling and quickly crawled away as the nurse explained how she mixed the 0.5% chlorine solution used to sterilize the medical instruments. It was a normal day of assessing the infection prevention and control (IPC) procedures of peripheral health units (PHUs) in the rural areas of Kambia district, Sierra Leone. Bats are very common in PHUs, creating challenges to IPC steps and standards…read blog

Infographic of the Week

HEALTHCARE WORKERS TRAINED IN EBOLA INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL View full-sized infographic

Video of the Week

SIERRA LEONE: EBOLA TRAINING ACADEMY IN FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE Since 1 December 2014, The International Organization for Migration managed National Ebola Training Academy at the Siaka Stevens Stadium and the Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine in Freetown, Sierra Leone has trained over 5,900 frontline health care professionals on Infection Prevention and Control in collaboration with…watch video

Story of the Week

IMPROVING INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN SIERRA LEONE At the height of Sierra Leone’s Ebola outbreak, the walls of Connaught Hospital in Freetown were papered with tributes to dozens of staff members who had been infected with Ebola at the hospital and died. Tragically, they represent only a fraction of the doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, and hygienists who were infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone…read story

CDC Ebola Updates

Latest Outbreak Info The World Health Organization has reported 27,741 cases of Ebola and 11,284 deaths worldwide…read more Q & A on Ebola Updated Case Counts (From WHO Situation Reports) The Road to Zero: CDC’s Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic, 2014–2015 More resources on the CDC Ebola website >>

In the News

CDC versus Ebola: The Road to Zero CDC Newsroom July 9, 2015 Driven to Extinction The Scientist July 1, 2015 Ebola and Malaria The Lancet June 23, 2015 Ebola to blame for more malaria deaths in west Africa The Conversation June 23, 2015

On the Calendar

July 28: World Hepatitis Day August 1-7: World Breastfeeding Week