Ebola Health Workers Caring For Pregnant Women Face Risks, Must Make Quick Treatment Decisions, Experts Say

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Ebola health workers face life or death decision on pregnant women: experts
“…Health workers [in West Africa] have very little time to decide whether a pregnant woman with complications is free of Ebola and should have the necessary intervention, or may have Ebola and should have minimal procedures, experts said in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology…” (Guilbert, 1/14).

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