The 2013–15 Ebola virus disease epidemic put health care workers at high risk of a disease with a very high fatality rate in the epidemic areas [1]. Not only were nurses and doctors at risk, but also staff engaged in transportation, cleaning and burial of patients. At that time, it was unclear how best to minimize health care workers’ risk of infection. To cover part of those needs, Cochrane Work conducted a systematic review on personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in health care staff [1]. Now that the frenzy of the epidemic has passed, the World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a task force to use the experiences and the available scientific evidence to be better prepared for a new epidemic. The Cochrane review will be part of the evidence underpinning new guidelines that should increase protection of health care workers against either new epidemics of these same diseases or epidemics of new diseases.
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