MMWR Vol. 63 / Early Release ► Developing an Incident Management System to Support Ebola Response — Liberia, July–August 2014

MMWR Vol. 63 / Early Release

MMWR Early Release Vol. 63, Early Release October 14, 2014

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Developing an Incident Management System to Support Ebola Response — Liberia, July–August 2014 Satish K. Pillai, MD, Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, Edward Rouse, MPA, et al. MMWR 2014;63(Early Release):1-5 Among the five West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak, Liberia has had the highest number of cases and deaths. CDC worked with the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) to establish incident management system principles. This report describes MOHSW’s Ebola response structure, plans made during the initial assessment, implementation of interventions aimed at improving the system, and plans for further development of the response