Librarian
IFSI Library Information
Library Hours:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday - Friday
Special operating hours may be held during events.
IFSI Library Staff:
Lian Ruan, Head Librarian: lruan@illinois.edu
Diane Richardson, Reference & User Training Librarian: dlrichar@illinois.edu
David Ehrenhart, Archivist and Metadata Librarian: ehrenha1@illinois.edu
What is Ebola?
Ebola originated in 1976 in two separate, simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus is a hemorrhagic fever virus, which affects the way that your blood clots and leads to organ failure and internal bleeding. It is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of somehow who is sick with or has died from the virus. Historically, only two cases of Ebola have originated in the United States, and no cases have been diagnosed in the United States since 2014.
Read more at the Johns Hopkins Medicine Website.
Ebola Information
- Confronting Ebola: Addressing a 21st Century Global Health CrisisArchived CDC testimony from 2019, which details the efforts the CDC has undertaken to combat Ebola in West Africa.
- Early Identification and Prevention of the Spread of Ebola — United StatesAn article from the CDC, summarizing the efforts at identifying and preventing the spread of Ebola in the United States.
- Ebola in the United States - Public Reactions and ImplicationsAn article from 2015, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that examines public perceptions about the dangers and transmissibility of Ebola.
- Local Health Department Preparedness and Response to Ebola in the United StatesA blog post written in 2015 that examines efforts that local health departments were taking at the time to combat the possible spread of Ebola.
- PPE: Confirmed Patients and Clinically Unstable Patients Suspected to have VHFA CDC guide on PPE use when treating potential or confirmed cases of certain Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, including Ebola.
- Interim Guidance for Emergency Services Dealing with Certain Viral Hemorrhagic FeversA CDC guide meant to prepare first responders to remain safe and properly manage patients while handling certain viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola and Marburg.
- We Were There - EbolaVideo recording of September 5th, 2019 "We Were There" lecture detailing the CDC response to the Zaire Ebola outbreak of 1976.
- Meet the disease detectives tracking Ebola at the CDCThis 2014 video features PBS NewsHour's Kathleen McCleery reporting from Atlanta on the challenges of keeping up with the fast-moving epidemic