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An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reviewed and conducted an analysis of the clinical trials conducted during the 2014–2015 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak in West Africa. The committee developed a report to inform guidelines and best practices for all future clinical trials conducted in response to a future outbreak. Particular emphasis was given to clinical trials for vaccine and therapeutic candidates for EVD conducted by the international community in settings where there is limited healthcare and research infrastructure.
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Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience
Consensus Study Report
·2017
The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Republi...
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