How Twitter may have helped Nigeria contain Ebola

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Carter, Meg ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CHOLERA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SENEGAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIAL MEDIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNET; NIGERIA;

EID: 84911423430     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6946     Document Type: Short Survey

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