Dr Abdeen Khairy: The first doctor, worldwide, who gave his life fighting Ebola epidemic in 1976.

Dr Mahgoub Osman Karrar who wrote the first clinical report on Ebola virus disease worldwide.

EDITORIAL NOTE: Dr Ibrahim Hassan Fahal cordially contributed this article and sent the original document of the late Dr Mahjoub Osman Karrar who wrote the first clinical report on Ebola virus disease worldwide in 1976. On 4 October 1976, an epidemiologist from the Central Ministry of Health, Sudan, Dr Ali Ahmed Idris, accompanied by a clinical team of physicians arrived in Maridi to investigat...

Remembering the first doctors worldwide who offered their lives fighting Ebola virus epidemic.

A good death---Ebola and sacrifice.

A friend of ours, Dr. Sam Brisbane, died recently. He was a Liberian doctor, and he died from Ebola, a horrible, nightmarish disease. Information coming out of Liberia has been scarce. Since Dr. Brisbane’s death, we’ve learned that other doctors and nurses with whom we’ve worked have also contracted Ebola and have died or are being treated in the types of rudimentary facilities we see on the ne...

A review on West African Ebola epidemic dynamics models

Background and aims: The world is threatened by disease outbreak that reaches a public health emergency of international concern, studies to inform public and agencies for effective containment strategy are necessary. Several studies provided vital information of the dynamics and control of Ebola epidemic outbreak in West Africa. Methodologies and techniques in those researches...

Ebola hemorrhagic fever in 2014: the tale of an evolving epidemic.

Sometimes a woman would clutch his sleeve, crying shrilly: “Doctor, you’ll save him, won’t you?” But he wasn’t there for saving life; he was there to order a sick man’s evacuation. How futile was the hatred he saw on faces then! “You haven’t a heart!” a woman told him on one occasion. She was wrong; he had one. It saw him through his twenty-hour day, when he hourly watched men dying who were me...