Protecting the health care worker during outbreaks - The case of viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks

摘要

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, an International Medical Humanitarian Non Governmental Organization, has an experience of 20 years in intervening in Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) Outbreaks (Marburg-, Ebola-, Lassa-fever- outbreaks). Healthcare providers caring for Ebola-, Marburg-, and, in a lesser extend, Lassa-patients, are, next to family and friends of patients, at highest risk of getting infected by those diseases, as they are most likely to come in contact with infectious blood and/or body fluids of VHF patients.