Ebola wreaks havoc in Sierra Leone

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Koroma, Mohamed ^a,b   Lv, Shan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^b Freetown City Council   (Sierra Leone)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria Schistosomiasis and Filariasis   (China)

Author keywords

Control; Ebola virus disease; Government; Measures; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIERRA LEONE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85006200894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-4-10     Document Type: Article

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