Ebola in Sierra Leone: A call for action

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9940, 2014, Pages 303-

  Ansumana, Rashid ^a   Bonwitt, Jesse ^a   Stenger, David A ^a,b   Jacobsen, Kathryn H ^a,c  

^a Mercy Hospital Research Laboratory Bo   (Sierra Leone)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIERRA LEONE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABORATORY TEST; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SELF CARE; SELF EVALUATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84905961392     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61119-3     Document Type: Letter

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