The Ebola suspect's dilemma

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages e254-e256

  Richardson, Eugene T ^a,b,c   Barrie, Mohamed Bailor ^b   Nutt, Cameron T ^b,d   Kelly, J Daniel ^b,e   Frankfurter, Raphael ^b,e   Fallah, Mosoka P ^f,g,h   Farmer, Paul E ^a,b,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Ministry of Health   (Liberia)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LIBERIA   (Liberia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION; MALARIA; MORTALITY RISK; NOTE; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER DILEMMA; PROBABILITY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SOCIAL STIGMA; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AFRICA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONER DILEMMA;

EID: 85013192678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30041-4     Document Type: Note

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