Ebola and the Limited Effectiveness of Travel Restrictions

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 92-

  Folayan, Morenike ^a   Brown, Brandon ^b  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84924347845     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.1     Document Type: Letter

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