Surveillance and preparedness for ebola virus disease — New York City, 2014

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 63, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 934-936

  Benowitz, Isaac ^a,b   Ackelsberg, Joel ^b   Balter, Sharon E ^b   Baumgartner, Jennifer C ^b   Dentinger, Catherine ^a,b   Fine, Anne D ^b   Harper, Scott A ^a,b   Jones, Lucretia E ^b   Laraque, Fabienne ^b   Lee, Ellen H ^b   Merizalde, Giselle ^b   Quinn, Celia ^a,c   Slavinski, Sally ^b   Winters, Ann I ^b   Weiss, Don ^b   Yacisin, Kari A ^a,c   Varma, Jay K ^b   Layton, Marcelle C ^b  

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

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84910088458     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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