SEMESTER-V CHILD HEALTH NURSING-UNIT-1-INTRODUCTION.pdf
“Just a few days . . . Ebola, Zaire, 1976”
1. “Just a few days . . . Ebola, Zaire, 1976”
Joel Breman, MD, DTPH
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
50th Anniversary Celebration
Epidemic Intelligence Service
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, April 22, 2001
2. International Commission for the Investigation and
Control of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), 1976-77
Collaborators
Belgium
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Canada
France
South Africa
United States
World Health Organization
3. International Commission for the Investigation and
Control of EHF 1976-77
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Participation
Task Force Backup, Atlanta
In DR Congo (Zaire)
John Bryan, EIS 1968
Joel Breman, EIS 1976
Lyle Conrad, EIS 1965
Stan Foster, EIS, 1962
Bill Foege, EIS 1971
David Heymann, EIS 1976
Larry Schonberger, EIS 1971
Karl Johnson
David Sencer, EIS 1975
Joe McCormick, EIS 1973
Phil Brachman, EIS 1954
Michael White, EIS 1975
Laboratory, CDC
Luanne Elliot
In Sudan Jim Lange
Fred Murphy
Don Francis, EIS 1971
Pat Webb
Herta Wulff
4. Ebola, Zaire, 1976
Spectrum of Emotion and Activity
Highest Less high
Anxiety
Confidence
Emotion
Uncertainty Anger
(false) Celebration
Terror
Sorrow Understanding
Comfort
Fear
(false)
Activity
People Active case
fleeing Rapid Patient detection
Chaos
Surveillance management
Commissio Plasmapheresis
n formed Isolation and Investigations/ Field
quarantine quick Investigations
Low
Information Sharing
High
6. Number of Cases of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in the
Equator Region, by Day of Onset and Probable Type of
50 Transmission, 1976
45 Probable Type of
Transmission
40
Person to Person
35 Both
Cases
30 Syringe
25
20
15
10
5
1-3 4-6 7-9 10-12 13-15 16-18 19-21 22-24 25-27 28-30 1-3 4-6 7-9 10-12 13-15 16-18 19-21 22-24 25-27 28-30
September October
7. Ebola Virus, Zaire, 1976
Unfixed diagnostic specimen from
Vero cell passage: sodium
phosphotungstate x 90,000
(Fred Murphy)