Médecins Sans Frontières & Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum

Médecins Sans Frontières: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that the Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than the response, calling for immediate expansion of testing, faster deployment of aid workers, and sustained access for medical supplies.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum>>>, medical director of the India — National Geophysical Research Institute>>>, confirmed an American doctor was among the confirmed cases in Bunia.

Médecins Sans Frontières: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) is actively responding to the Ebola outbreak, highlighting the worsening insecurity and catastrophic hygiene conditions in displacement sites.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, a Congolese virologist, highlighted that the Bundibugyo strain complicates the response as existing treatments and vaccines are for the Zaire strain.

Médecins Sans Frontières: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) teams have identified suspected Ebola cases in Bunia hospitals, but found no available isolation wards, illustrating the overwhelmed healthcare infrastructure.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, director of Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB), detailed the botched testing and shipping of samples that delayed the identification of the correct Ebola strain.

Médecins Sans Frontières: Providing frontline medical care and warning the outbreak is spreading at an 'alarming and unprecedented rate'. Its operations are vital in affected areas.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Virologist who helped discover Ebola, criticizing the response as 'slow and ineffective'. His critique is influential.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, director of the Congolese National Institute for Biomedical Research, confirmed a positive Ebola case in Goma.