Reporting epidemics: Newspapers, information dissemination and the story of Ebola in the Ugandan district of Luweero

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mwesiga, Allan ^a  

^a African Field Epidemiology Network ^*  (Uganda)

Author keywords

Case; Ebola; Epidemic; Media; Reporting; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UGANDA;

EID: 84856324281     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/pamj.v9i1.71222     Document Type: Article

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