Ebola 2014 - New challenges, new global response and responsibility

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1177-1180

  Frieden, Thomas R ^a   Damon, Inger ^a   Bell, Beth P ^a   Kenyon, Thomas ^a   Nichol, Stuart ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS VACCINE;

AFRICA; AIRPLANE CREW; ASIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; NIGERIA; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ARTICLE; HEALTH;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84907424155     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1409903     Document Type: Article

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