Washington Post | "Americans may have been exposed in Congo Ebola outbreak”
The Washington Post interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the current Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
The Washington Post interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about how public health experts are responding to the current Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
“It is unfolding in exactly the kind of environment where containment becomes extraordinarily difficult,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Global Health Security at UCLA’s Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health. "Ebola containment depends on speed and precision … you have to identify cases quickly, isolate patients safely, trace contacts rapidly, and interrupt transmission chains before they expand. All of that becomes much harder in places dealing with fragile health infrastructure, conflict, displacement, mistrust, overcrowding and limited laboratory capacity.”
