Demystifying Medicine 2020: Ebola: Then, Now and the NIH (National Institutes of Health) | NLM

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Demystifying Medicine 2020: Ebola: Then, Now and the NIH (National Institutes of Health)

01/14/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 1/14/2020. This one-hour, 44-minute presentation discusses how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been at the forefront in the global effort to prevent the spread of Ebola virus. NIH staff were deployed in western Africa during the 2015-2016 Ebola outbreak to provide primary care to those infected, and Ebola patients were received at the NIH Clinical Center. For many years prior, NIH scientists studied the natural reservoirs of emerging viruses such as Ebola virus and have elucidated the biology of Ebola virus infection, which has informed the creation of investigational Ebola vaccines. (Video or Multimedia)