title: Ebola: Experiences from the field--Liberia.
abstract: The experience of all those who have worked with Ebola during the current outbreak has been different, and varied by time and place. I worked with Médicins sans Frontières in Monrovia during October/November 2014. This was the first-ever outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the overcrowded and impoverished areas of a capital city; Ebola was spreading rapidly, and case management had to be upscaled on an unprecedented basis. It was also a time of many questions: for clinicians, these centred on how to optimise survival, and how to maximise care in a resource-limited environment.
authors.affiliation: Physician and Infectious Diseases Specialist, Khayelitsha District Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. rosie@polka.co.za.
authors.forename: Rosie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Burton
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007988:Liberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D013534:Survival