Panic, paranoia, and public health - The AIDS epidemic's lessons for Ebola

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 2348-2349

  Gonsalves, Gregg ^a,b   Staley, Peter ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIDS Activist   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HAITIAN; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEMOPHILIA; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; INFECTION CONTROL; PANIC; PARANOIA; PROTECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNEMPLOYMENT; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84910045274     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1413425     Document Type: Article

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