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

Affiliations

• ¹ 1.Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology, Design Sciences, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden E-mail: kalev.kuklane@design.lth.se.
• ² 2.Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ³ 3.Centre for Societal Resilience, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ⁴ 4.Human Ecology, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ⁵ 5.Architecture and Build Environment, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ⁶ 6.Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ⁷ 7.Nuclear Physics, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ⁸ 8.Lund University Center for Sustainability Science, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ⁹ 9.Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ¹⁰ 10.Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden 11.Center for Work Environment and Leadership, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
• ¹¹ 12.Health and Environment International Trust, 168 Stafford Drive, Mapua, 7005 New Zealand 13.Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, PO Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden.