A plan for community event-based surveillance to reduce Ebola transmission — Sierra Leone, 2014–2015

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 70-73

  Crowe, Sam ^a,b   Hertz, Darren ^c   Maenner, Matt ^a,b   Ratnayake, Ruwan ^c   Baker, Pieter ^c   Ryan Lash, R ^b   Klena, John ^b   Lee Kwan, Seung Hee ^a,b   Williams, Candice ^a,b   Jonnie, Gabriel T ^c   Gorina, Yelena ^b   Anderson, Alicia ^b   Saffa, Gbessay ^d   Carr, Dana ^e   Tuma, Jude ^e   Miller, Laura ^c   Turay, Alhajie ^d   Belay, Ermias ^b  

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

^b CDC Sierra Leone Ebola Response Team   (United States)

^c International Rescue Committee ^*  (United States)

^d Bo District Health Management Team Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SIERRA LEONE;

HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84922438421     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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