Face to Face with Ebola - An Emergency Care Center in Sierra Leone.
Abstract
At 6 a.m., our medical team arrives at the Ebola case-management center in the Kailahun district of Sierra Leone to take blood samples. At our 80-bed center here near the borders of Liberia and Guinea, 8 new patients were admitted yesterday, 9 need to have a repeat test 72 hours after their symptoms began, and some we hope to discharge today: at least 18 blood samples to obtain. The center currently houses 64 patients in all, 4 of them children less than 5 years of age. We have already seen 2 patients die today. I have been here for 7 . . .Publisher
Massachusetts Medical SocietyPubMed ID
25162580Type
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1533-4406ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1056/NEJMp1410179
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