Moving Towards a More Aggressive and Comprehensive Model of Care for Children with Ebola

Journal of Pediatrics
March 2016 Volume 170, p1-350
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Medical Progress
Moving Towards a More Aggressive and Comprehensive Model of Care for Children with Ebola
Indi Trehan, Tracy Kelly, Regan H. Marsh, Peter Matthew George, Charles W. Callahan
p28–33.e7
Published online: January 8 2016
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Ebola is a devastating illness for children, particularly those under 5 years of age.1-3 Although children are proportionally less affected than adults during outbreaks of Ebola, including in the current West Africa outbreak,4 it remains a major threat to child health in the affected nations and a neglected area of investigation and discussion.5 The threat is not only for those infected with Ebola, but for all children in the affected region because of the tremendous impact of this outbreak on national health care systems.