Ebola in west Africa: From disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1034-1035

  Piot, Peter ^a   Muyembe, Jean Jacques ^b   Edmunds, W John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Virology   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST AFRICAN; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFECTION CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84908287083     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70956-9     Document Type: Note

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