Ebola: Limitations of correcting misinformation

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9975, 2015, Pages 1275-1277

  Chandler, Clare ^a   Fairhead, James ^b   Kelly, Ann ^c   Leach, Melissa ^d   Martineau, Frederick ^a   Mokuwa, Esther ^e   Parker, Melissa ^a   Richards, Paul ^e   Wilkinson, Annie ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^e NJALA UNIVERSITY   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEXUAL PRACTICE; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RISK REDUCTION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84926526784     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62382-5     Document Type: Note

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