Using the Untested Ebola Drug in Ebola Affected Patients: An Ethical Dilemma

Anemia during Hospitalization in the Patients with Ebola Virus Disease

Ebola virus disease is the important emerging disease in Africa. This infection is deadly and has the main clinical feature as an acute hemorrhagic fever. The main hematological alteration in this infection is the platelet change. However, the change in other hematological parameters should be mentioned. 

Ebola or Not? Evaluating the Ill Traveler From Ebola-Affected Countries in West Africa

Background.  The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa had global impact beyond the primarily affected countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Other countries, including the United States, encountered numerous patients who arrived from highly affected countries with fever or other signs or symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease (EVD). Methods.  We describe our experience evaluat...

Ebola Treatment and Prevention are not the only Battles: Understanding Ebola-related Fear and Stigma

Ethical considerations of experimental interventions in the Ebola outbreak.

Background The outbreak of Ebola virus raging in west Africa is special in two respects. First, with more than 2100 infections and 1100 deaths, it has already become the most severe and largest documented Ebola outbreak. It is also occurring in some of the world’s least developed countries, and is therefore extremely complex to address. Second, experimental interventions that are still in the p...

Ethical considerations surrounding the response to Ebola: the Spanish experience

BACKGROUND The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, with 28,646 reported cases and 11,323 deaths, was declared a public health emergency of international interest by the World Health Organisation. In Spain, a single reported case triggered a public health crisis of a markedly media-centred nature. The approach to the first EVD epidemic has given rise to various ethical considerations arou...

Reflections on ethical challenges associated with the Ebola epidemic.

The recent tragic, horrifying and extensively reported Ebola epidemic [1] must surely lead us to question why, despite major medical progress, such epidemics continue to emerge. We should also consider their implications for our global collective future. Seeking to understand the Ebola epidemic requires viewing it in the broadest historical and sociopolitical contexts that have shaped health gl...