Selected article for: "Ebola virus disease and public health"

Author: S Pooransingh; S Mohammed; K Melville; C Mohammed; M Mohammed; R Mohammed; W Mootoo; M Morris; D Motilal; B Bhagwandeen; I Dialsingh
Title: Knowledge and attitudes of Ebola among the general public of Trinidad and Tobago during the 2014-15 West Africa outbreak
  • Document date: 2018_6_14
  • ID: 6pqjnkkw_42
    Snippet: Ebola virus disease was chosen for this study as this disease was of grave concern at the time of the outbreaks since the disease left the African continent for the first time. To quote Dr Keiji Fukuda, a WHO expert, "what happens in Africa affects your neighborhood, either directly or indirectly…the IHR are founded on that principle...but the world beyond public health remains largely unconvinced of it. To really make strides against diseases .....
    Document: Ebola virus disease was chosen for this study as this disease was of grave concern at the time of the outbreaks since the disease left the African continent for the first time. To quote Dr Keiji Fukuda, a WHO expert, "what happens in Africa affects your neighborhood, either directly or indirectly…the IHR are founded on that principle...but the world beyond public health remains largely unconvinced of it. To really make strides against diseases like Ebola, we have to convince people that there is no "over there" for infectious pathogens in a globalized world (2) .

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