Help from above: Outer space and the fight against Ebola

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 873-875

  Asrar, Farhan M ^a,b,c   Asrar, Suhail ^a   Clark, Jonathan B ^d   Kendall, David J W ^e,f   Ngo Anh, Thu Jennifer ^g   Brazeau, Stephanie ^h   Hulsroj, Peter ⁱ   Williams, Richard S ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Baylor College of Medicine ^*  (Austria)

^f CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^h PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ European Space Policy Institute Austria   (Austria)

^j NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABORATORY TEST; NOTE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSE RATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACE; TELEMEDICINE; TEMPERATURE; DRUG EFFECTS; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PROCEDURES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84937678209     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00153-X     Document Type: Note

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