Open AccessJustice in Libya? Let Scientific Evidence Prevail
Author(s) -
Martin Hirsch
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1086/512102
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , virology , environmental health , family medicine
In 2001, a report by Yerly et al. in the Journal of Infectious Diseases described an outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections that occurred at Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya, in 1998 [1]. This nosocomial outbreak eventually involved >400 children, with 52 deaths having occurred to date. The Libyan representative to the World Health Organization provided plasma samples collected from individuals in the outbreak to the
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