Strategies for containing Ebola in West Africa

Science

Volumn 346, Issue 6212, 2014, Pages 991-995

  Pandey, Abhishek ^a   Atkins, Katherine E ^a,b   Medlock, Jan ^c   Wenzel, Natasha ^a   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a   Childs, James E ^a   Nyenswah, Tolbert G ^d   Ndeffo Mbah, Martial L ^a   Galvani, Alison P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Liberia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUARANTINE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; VIRAL DISEASE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CADAVER; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LIBERIA; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; SANITATION; SOCIAL WELFARE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

WEST AFRICA;

AFRICA, WESTERN; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84911891126     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1260612     Document Type: Article

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