Ebola in urban slums: The elephant in the room

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2014, Pages e685-

  Snyder, Robert E ^a   Marlow, Mariel A ^a   Riley, Lee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

BREEDING; CROWDING (AREA); CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LAND USE; LETTER; SANITATION; URBAN SLUM; URBANIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; POVERTY; URBAN POPULATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; POVERTY AREAS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84918836427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70339-0     Document Type: Letter

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