Dr Nadia Wauquier interview and PDF transcript

[00:00:00] General background, French and British, MA in Medical and Molecular Biology, PhD on Ebola, working with Joseph Fair at Metabiota, arriving in Sierra Leone in 2011 at Kenema Hospital, directing research for Metabiota, describes work in Sierra Leone before Ebola outbreak in 2014. [00:08:00] Recalls first hearing about Ebola in Guinea. [00:10:00] Receiving Ebola and Lassa Fever blood samples from Guinea in March 2014, assisting the Ministry of Health. [00:16:30] Recalls role of journalists tracing early Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, talks about early Ebola cases, the first cases in Kenema. [00:22:50] Reflects on what could have been done differently during Ebola outbreak, lack of WHO clinicians, panic of nursing staff, nurses strike. [00:25:00] Contact tracing being set up, lack of staffing at Kenema hospital, role directing operations. [00:31:00] How she felt about her own safety, being worried about her lab tech, talks about lab technician who was a friend passing away from Ebola. [00:33:50] Conspiracy theories around Ebola, witchcraft story in Port Loko, nurse in Kenema conspiracy theory that caused riots. [00:41:25] End of Interview.

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