Effectiveness of screening for Ebola at airports

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9962, 2015, Pages 23-24

  Read, Jonathan M ^a   Diggle, Peter J ^a,c   Chirombo, James ^a   Solomon, Tom ^a,b   Baylis, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b THE WALTON CENTRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AIRPORT; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GUINEA; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; LIBERIA; MASS SCREENING; NIGERIA; SIERRA LEONE; THERMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; AVIATION; EBOLA VIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PATHOGENICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR TRAVEL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84920412049     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61894-8     Document Type: Letter

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