How to prepare for the next inevitable Ebola outbreak: lessons from West Africa

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
² Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. merawia@africacdc.org.
⁴ Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁵ WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, Berlin, Germany.
⁶ Université Gamal Abdel de Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
⁷ African Risk Capacity, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁸ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁹ National Institute for Research in Public Health, Bamako, Mali.
¹⁰ World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
¹¹ Health and Development in Action, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
¹² Independent Consultant, Dakar, Senegal.
¹³ Consultant on Health Security, Abuja, Nigeria.
¹⁴ National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
¹⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁶ National Public Health Institute, Monrovia, Liberia.
¹⁷ World Health Organization Country office, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁸ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Henry Kyobe Bosa et al. Nat Med. 2024 Dec.

. 2024 Dec;30(12):3413-3416.

doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03295-x.

¹ Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
² Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. merawia@africacdc.org.
⁴ Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁵ WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, Berlin, Germany.
⁶ Université Gamal Abdel de Conakry, Conakry, Guinea.
⁷ African Risk Capacity, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁸ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁹ National Institute for Research in Public Health, Bamako, Mali.
¹⁰ World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
¹¹ Health and Development in Action, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
¹² Independent Consultant, Dakar, Senegal.
¹³ Consultant on Health Security, Abuja, Nigeria.
¹⁴ National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
¹⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁶ National Public Health Institute, Monrovia, Liberia.
¹⁷ World Health Organization Country office, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁸ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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