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23/10/2014

The recovery of Teresa Romero will foster the research in ebola

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23/10/2014

Diana Pou, member of the Infectious Diseases group at VHIR, is consultant of the Ebola scientific committee in Spain

Doctor Diana Pou, member of the Infectious Diseases group at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) and the Catalan program for international health (PROSICS), is a consultant of the scientific committee of Ebola in Spain at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) of the Spanish government. Pou worked in Africa with Médecins Sans Frontières for several periods in 9 years, and has experienced in first person 3 ebola outbreaks. For the specialist in tropical medicine, the recovery of the Spanish nurse assistant, Teresa Romero, “opens the door to the research in ebola”. According to the Spanish news agency "http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20141022/54418178446/la-curacion-de-teresa-romero-abre-las-puertas-a-investigar-farmaco-antiebola.html" EFE, she assured that pharmaceutical companies are who decide when will arrive the first drug for ebola. Nonetheless, since this case, “the expectations in the knowledge of the virus, the disease, the possible treatments and the vaccines have increased” Pou reported. The physician was interviewed in "http://www.324.cat/video/5299802/altres/Curacio-Teresa-Romero-permetra-investigar-Ebola" TV3 and "http://www.8tv.cat/8aldia/videos/diana-pou-sha-de-gestionar-mes-una-epidemia-de-por-que-una-epidemia-debola/" 8TV, where she explained her experience as a consultant of the Spanish government. She also explained that there is still a long shot of new cases in Spain, and insisted on the need to manage what she considers an ‘epidemic of fear’ among the society.

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