CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: CDC Around the World: Ebola in Sierra Leone

sábado, 8 de agosto de 2015

CDC Around the World: Ebola in Sierra Leone

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Responders on duty at the Ebola Call Center in Freetown,
Sierra Leone take calls about possible Ebola cases, requests
for ambulances, and health concerns from Ebola vaccine trial
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Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Ebola in Sierra Leone

CDC Ebola Updates

In the News

On the Calendar

Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Ebola in Sierra Leone

Blog of the Week

MABINTY TARAWALLY: 1-1-7 HOTLINE RESPONDER

Mabinty Tarawally has worked as a 1-1-7 Call Center responder for almost a year. When she began, the national call center consisted of seven people who handled 100 calls a day in a small room at the World Health Organization’s Sierra Leone country office. Tarawally joined the 1-1-7 Call Center in September 2014, and has seen the number and nature of calls from Sierra Leoneans change over the course of the outbreak…read blog
blog

Infographic of the Week

EBOLA CALL CENTER IN SIERRA LEONE

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Infographic of the week: Ebola call center in Sierra Leone

Video of the Week

EBOLA ON THE GROUND: THE RESPONSE

OB Sisay, Situation Room Director of Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Centre, takes us on a step-by-step guide to how Sierra Leoneans have worked tirelessly to get the Ebola outbreak under control—from the emergency call center and the neighborhood surveillance officers to the contact tracers and the armed quarantine zones, and from the new “safe and dignified” burial practices to the recently constructed Ebola graveyards…watch video
Video of the week

Story of the Week

1-1-7 EBOLA CALL CENTER IN SIERRA LEONE: EXPANDING AND ACCELERATING RESPONSE TO CALLS FOR AMBULANCES AND BURIAL TEAMS

At the 1-1-7 Ebola Call Center in Freetown, over 100 operators work in three shifts to answer questions about Sierra Leone’s outbreak 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They work at a steady pace, on up-to-date software systems, answering callers’ questions and entering requests for ambulances to pick up people with Ebola symptoms. They also log requests for burial teams to come to homes where they remove the bodies of the people who died to be tested for Ebola and receive safe and dignified burials…read story

CDC Ebola Updates

Latest Outbreak Info
The World Health Organization has reported 27,926 cases of Ebola and 11,298 deaths worldwide…read more

Q & A on Ebola

Podcast: CDC Ebola Response Update

Updated Review of Human-to-Human Transmission of Ebola Virus

Distribution map showing days since most recent cases of Ebola in West Africa