Ensuring Biosecurity Combating Ebola at Home and Abroad

摘要

The rain had stopped but everything remained wet, even as the hot, sweltering West African humidity lingered. The largest Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in history had been raging for months. It was September 2014, and the first U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) team had just arrived in Monrovia, Liberia, known as the wettest capital in the world, at the peak of precipitation and monsoon thunderstorm season. The stifling discomfort was just the first of many challenges PHS officers faced, and overcame-both at home and overseas-in the international fight against Ebola.