Ebola virus disease in a humanitarian aid worker — New York City, October 2014

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 321-323

  Yacisin, Kari ^a,b   Balter, Sharon ^b   Fine, Annie ^b   Weiss, Don ^b   Ackelsberg, Joel ^b   Prezant, David ^c   Wilson, Ross ^d   Starr, David ^b   Rakeman, Jennifer ^b   Raphael, Marisa ^b   Quinn, Celia ^a,b   Toprani, Amita ^b   Clark, Nancy ^b   Link, Nathan ^e   Daskalakis, Demetre ^b   Maybank, Aletha ^b   Layton, Marcelle ^b   Varma, Jay K ^b  

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

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^c Government of New york   (United States)

^d NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALTRUISM; CASE REPORT; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ALTRUISM; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY;

EID: 84929939760     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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