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“Present”: Ebola’s Impact on PAs in Liberia

The author interviews Jerry Kollie, PA, President of the Liberia National Physician Assistants Association, about how the deadly outbreak affected clinicians in his country.
Clinician Reviews. 2015 September;25(9):41-42
August 31, 2015 | Clinician Reviews
John Oliphant, PA-C
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John Oliphant, PA-C

John Oliphant is an Assistant Professor in the Rochester Institute of Technology PA Program. He is also a board member for Our World Outreach, an organization that was the 2015 recipient of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Caring For Communities Award for their work in sending personal protective equipment to the health care workers in Liberia during the Ebola virus outbreak.


AFTERMATH
On May 9, 2015, the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola after 42 consecutive days without a new case. That changed on June 29, when Liberia experienced its first new case of Ebola virus since March 20.

In the neighboring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone, Ebola cases are still regularly occurring (although fewer than at the peak of the outbreak).

As of August 19, 2015, 880 health care workers have become infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone; 512 have reportedly died. In Liberia alone, 192 health care worker deaths have been attributed to Ebola.1

REFERENCES
1. World Health Organization. Ebola Situation Report, 19 August, 2015. https://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-19-august-2015. Accessed August 24, 2015. 

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