The Ebola outbreak, 2013–2016: Old lessons for new epidemics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1721, 2017, Pages

  Coltart, Cordelia E M ^a   Lindsey, Benjamin ^b   Ghinai, Isaac ^a   Johnson, Anne M ^a   Heymann, David L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ebola; Ebola outbreak; Ebola virus disease; West Africa

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

WEST AFRICA;

EBOLA VIRUS;

AFRICA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 85017324704     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0297     Document Type: Review

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