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. 2014 Sep 30;6(10):3699-718.
doi: 10.3390/v6103699.

A call to action to enhance filovirus disease outbreak preparedness and response

Paul Roddy  1
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A call to action to enhance filovirus disease outbreak preparedness and response

Paul Roddy. Viruses. .

Abstract

The frequency and magnitude of recognized and declared filovirus-disease outbreaks have increased in recent years, while pathogenic filoviruses are potentially ubiquitous throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, the efficiency and effectiveness of filovirus-disease outbreak preparedness and response efforts are currently limited by inherent challenges and persistent shortcomings. This paper delineates some of these challenges and shortcomings and provides a proposal for enhancing future filovirus-disease outbreak preparedness and response. The proposal serves as a call for prompt action by the organizations that comprise filovirus-disease outbreak response teams, namely, Ministries of Health of outbreak-prone countries, the World Health Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Atlanta, and others.

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Annual recognized and declared filovirus-disease cases and deaths in humans, 1967–18 September 2014. Note: Biosafety level-4 laboratory accidental filovirus exposures are included as they involve human cases. Filovirus-disease cases and deaths from outbreaks that occurred over multiple years are assigned to their first year of occurrence. Data source: Table 1.
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