Survey among survivors of the 1995 Ebola epidemic in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Their feelings and experiences

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 883-885

  De Roo, Ann ^a   Ado, Bwaka ^b   Rose, Berthe ^b   Guimard, Yves ^a   Fonck, Karolien ^a   Colebunders, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Kikwit General Hospital   (Congo)

Author keywords

Democratic Republic of Congo; Ebola; Kikwit; Survivors

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; EPIDEMIC; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGO; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

CONGO; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO;

EID: 0031731594     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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