YouTube videos as a source of medical information during the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic

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Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-5

  Nagpal, Sajan Jiv Singh ^a   Karimianpour, Ahmadreza ^a   Mukhija, Dhruvika ^a   Mohan, Diwakar ^b   Brateanu, Andrei ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; Ebola hemorrhagic fever; Epidemics; Multimedia; Patient education; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958179096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-1251-9     Document Type: Article

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