Open AccessEbola: SA has no outbreak ‘laurels’ to rest on
Author(s) -
Chris Bateman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
south african medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 2078-5135
pISSN - 0256-9574
DOI - 10.7196/samj.8894
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , virology , pandemic , tuberculosis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , rest (music) , ebola virus , covid-19 , traditional medicine , environmental health , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , cardiology
South Africas record in handling the initial HIV/AIDS pandemic (without antiretroviral drugs) and the rapid spread of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis are major red flags warning that it may not have the capacity to face the deadly drug-defiant West African Ebola virus.
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