Fight or Flight — Facing the Marburg Outbreak in Rwanda

2024/11/20 by Jean Pierre Sibomana · 2 voices · 2 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Disaster Response and Management #Global Security and Public Health #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1056/nejmp2413951

openalex publication_date 2024/11/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

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• Increasing Occurrence of Marburg Virus Outbreaks in Africa: Risk Assessment for Public Health
• How Rwanda mounted a research response with an investigational vaccine just ten days into a Marburg outbreak

Discussions

• In Nature Briefing, I pride myself on my summaries. But sometimes you simply must click through and read the whole thing. Today is one of those times. Jean Pierre Sibomana's a account of Rwanda's firs [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]
• "I knew a premature VHF diagnosis could cause panic and have profound political implications." – A very strong piece in NEJM by Dr JP Sibomana on the personal and political complexity of diagnosing Rw [bsky, 5 points, 0 comments]

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