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Microbiology: Current Research
Volume 2
International Conference on
Emerging Diseases, Outbreaks & Case Studies
&
16
th
Annual Meeting on
March 28-29, 2018 | Orlando, USA
Influenza
E
bola hit the population epicenters of three West African
countries from 2014 to 2015 and was responsible for over
11,000 deaths across Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. This
Ebola outbreak was facilitated by severe insufficiences in the
healthcare system of the affected countries and incredibly high
population density with unsanitary living conditions brought
on by absolute poverty. I had the honor to work in an Ebola
Treatment Unit (ETU) in Port Loko, Sierra Leone during 2015.
I stayed for another year after the epidemic to care for Ebola
survivors once it was over. While caring for survivors, my clinic
was one of the sites conducting semen testing for persistence
of Ebola RNA in male survivors’ semen. I will discuss several of
the landmark studies on Ebola since the outbreak concluded
including the persistence of Ebola RNA in human semen, the
efficacy of an Ebola vaccine, and the seropositivity rate of
asymptomatic contacts of Ebola patients.
Speaker Biography
Andrew Myers has completed his MD in 2011 from the University of South Florida
(USF), Morsani College of Medicine and his Residency in Internal Medicine at the
George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the Director of Quality for
the Division of Hospital Medicine at USF and currently working on projects to improve
sepsis outcomes and reduce hospital-acquired
C. difficile
. He has an interest in global
health and has worked in Botswana, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Dominican Republic,
and Thailand. He is a leading Medical student through research projects in up to 15
different countries annually.
e:
awm@health.usf.eduAndrew Myers
University of South Florida, USA
Updates on Ebola viral disease breakthroughs since the 2014-2015 epidemic