Jeremy FarrarVerified account

What are the risks? The biggest risk is that the security situation gets worse & the critical public health interventions are interrupted, people migrate because of violence & ebola spreads across DRC or across borders, the next month is critical.

My reflections-we should prepare for this epidemic going on for many months, we should prepare for good & bad scenarios and not be surprised by either, as always we should be prepared to deal with the unexpected, an unrelated epidemic ebola or other elsewhere as we deal with this

Infection control in all settings, clinical facilities, triage, safe burials, community settings is absolutely crucial.

Access to rapid diagnostics & real time sequence of virus to inform about transmission chains & true scale of the epidemic would be invaluable. The best care possible, fluids, oxygen, critical care, and when possible assessment of the four potential drugs for ebola.

Been remarkable that almost 60,000 people been vaccinated,teams who have engaged with communities, offered vaccine & deployed it have been amazing, the logistics & those developed vaccine @Merck @MSDInvents deserve great credit-Guniea,@MSF,@WHO,@NIH,@EU,@DFID_UK, @wellcometrust