Cost of the Ebola Epidemic: Impact of the Response on the Healthcare System

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S)
• Description:
  During the height of the response, CDC trained 24,655 healthcare workers in West Africa on infection prevention and control practices. In the United States, more than 160 clinical webinars and conference calls were held with professional organization members and more than 6,500 people were trained during live training events throughout the response. In addition, Laboratory capacity was expanded in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, with 24 labs able to test for Ebola by the end of 2015.
• Subjects:
  Cost Of Illness Disease Outbreaks / Economics Ebolavirus Global Health Health Care Costs Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Economics Statistics
• Keywords:
  Ebola Ebola Virus Ebola Virus Disease Orthoebolavirus
• Series:
  Cost of the Ebola Epidemic
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Poster
• Place as Subject:
  Guinea ; Liberia ; Sierra Leone ; United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  DHCPP - Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions ; Global Health
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/156188/cdc_156188_DS1.pdf
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