Ebola: Improving the design of protective clothing for emergency workers allows them to better cope with heat stress and help to contain the epidemic

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 258-261

  Kuklane, Kalev ^a   Lundgren, Karin ^a   Gao, Chuansi ^a   Löndahl, Jakob ^a   Hornyanszky, Elisabeth Dalholm ^a   Östergren, Per Olof ^a   Becker, Per ^a   Samuels, Marcella C ^a   Gooch, Pernille ^a   Sternudd, Catharina ^a   Albin, Maria ^a   Taj, Tahir ^a   Malmqvist, Ebba ^a   Swietlicki, Erik ^a   Olsson, Lennart ^a   Persson, Kenneth ^a   Olsson, Johanna Alkan ^a   Kjellstrom, Tord ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Social Medicine and Global Health Lund University ^*  (New Zealand)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ECONOMICS; HEAT; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARDS; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSMISSION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

EID: 84935078302     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mev003     Document Type: Letter

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