Canadian doctor Rob Fowler recognized for life-saving treatment in Ebola outbreakMortality rates went from 80 per cent to less than 40 per cent after an Ebola treatment was changed. Rob Fowler is being recognized with the Royal College Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award for his part in that change. Rob Fowler arrived in West Africa shortly after the Ebola outbreak began in 2014, he saw an opportunity to change the way patients were treated. Rob Fowler and Dr. Tom Fletcher, providing clinical care to patients with Ebola in Guinea, March 2014. Rob Fowler with members of the WHO Clinical Management Training and Mentorship Team in Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 2014.

Source: CBC News April 19, 2017 17:26 UTC