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How to prepare for the next inevitable Ebola outbreak: lessons from West Africa

Nature Medicine volume 30, pages 3413–3416 (2024)Cite this article

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Many lessons have been learned 10 years after the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, but urgent work is now needed to prevent another outbreak.

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  1. Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

    Henry Kyobe Bosa, Misaki Wayengera, Henry G. Mwebesa & Jane Ruth Aceng

  2. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Neema Kamara, Merawi Aragaw, Mosoka P. Fallah, Justin Maeda, Benjamin Djoudalbaye, Alain Ngashi Ngongo, Tajudeen Raji, Ahmed Ouma Ogwell & Jean Kaseya

  3. Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Patrick D. M. C. Katoto

  4. WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, Berlin, Germany

    Chikwe Ihekweazu

  5. Université Gamal Abdel de Conakry, Conakry, Guinea

    Moussa Douno

  6. African Risk Capacity, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Robert Kwame Agyarko

  7. Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Placide Mbala

  8. National Institute for Research in Public Health, Bamako, Mali

    Mamadou Souncalo Traoré

  9. World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

    Ambrose Talisuna, Olushayo Oluseun Olu & Francis Chisaka Kasolo

  10. Health and Development in Action, Freetown, Sierra Leone

    James Bangura

  11. Independent Consultant, Dakar, Senegal

    Abdoulaye Bousso

  12. Consultant on Health Security, Abuja, Nigeria

    Obasanya Joshua

  13. National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone

    James Sylvester Squire

  14. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Tolbert Nyenswah

  15. National Public Health Institute, Monrovia, Liberia

    Thelma V. Nelson

  16. World Health Organization Country office, Kampala, Uganda

    Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam

  17. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Ibrahima Socé Fall

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Bosa, H.K., Kamara, N., Aragaw, M. et al. How to prepare for the next inevitable Ebola outbreak: lessons from West Africa. Nat Med 30, 3413–3416 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03295-x

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