A Review of the Role of Food and the Food System in the Transmission and Spread of Ebolavirus

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Mann, Erin ^a   Streng, Stephen ^a   Bergeron, Justin ^a   Kircher, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; BUSHMEAT; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FOMITE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; FRUIT; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PIG; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST AFRICAN; AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLAVIRUS; FOOD; FOOD POISONING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EBOLAVIRUS; FOOD; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84953302957     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004160     Document Type: Review

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