Ebola: As Other Doctors Die, Heading Straight Into The Outbreak To Help
Original article from: WBUR’s CommonHealth posted on August 1, 2014. By Carey Goldberg
If all goes as planned, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia will soon head straight into the heart of the Ebola outbreak that has already killed more than 700 people in western Africa, including at least 50 health care workers. Global and U.S. health authorities announced Thursday that they would ramp up efforts to bring the epidemic under control, but that it would likely take at least three to six months.
Dr. Bhadelia is director of infection control at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory in Boston and a hospital epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center. She’s slated to travel to Sierra Leone in mid-August, to share her expertise on infection control and also care directly for Ebola patients. Our conversation, edited: