Understanding Ebola: The 2014 epidemic

Globalization and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kaner, Jolie ^a,b   Schaack, Sarah ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

2014 outbreak; Ebola; Ebolavirus; Epidemic; Review

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TREATMENT; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIC; PEST OUTBREAK; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRAL DISEASE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORTALITY RATE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; SOCIAL STIGMA; TRAVEL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AFRICA; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GUINEA; LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA]; SIERRA LEONE;

EBOLA VIRUS; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84992109033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0194-4     Document Type: Review

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