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Microbiology: Current Research
Volume 2
International Conference on
Emerging Diseases, Outbreaks & Case Studies
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16
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Annual Meeting on
March 28-29, 2018 | Orlando, USA
Influenza
T
he Ebola epidemic in West Africa from 2014 to 2015 was
the largest ever recorded in history, responsible for the
deaths of 11,314 patients across Sierra Leone, Liberia, and
Guinea. I had the opportunity to work in an Ebola Treatment
Unit (ETU) in Port Loko, Sierra Leone during 2015. At that
time, Port Loko was the district with the highest incidence
of new Ebola infections worldwide. I will discuss the staffing
structure of our ETU using teams of Sierra Leonean nationals
employed by their government alongside expatriates, our
treatment protocols in the ETU, and two cases of patients
who were treated at our ETU.
Speaker Biography
Asa Oxner Myers has completed her MD in 2011 from the University of South Florida
Morsani College of Medicine (USF) and her residency in Internal Medicine at Harvard
Medical School’s Teaching Hospital Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is the
Assistant Division Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at USF and the
Chairman of the Primary Care Quality and Patient-Centered Medical Home Committee.
She has an interest in global health and has worked in Botswana, South Africa, Sierra
Leone, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Thailand as well as leading Medical
students through research projects in up to 15 different countries annually.
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aoxner@health.usf.eduEbola: One perspective on treating this emerging disease from the field
Asa Oxner Myers
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, USA