The ongoing Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018-2019

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 381, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 373-383

  Kalenga, Oly Ilunga ^a   Moeti, Matshidiso ^b   Sparrow, Annie ^d   Nguyen, Vinh Kim ^c   Lucey, Daniel ^e   Ghebreyesus, Tedros A ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE;

CONGO; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG SAFETY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; VACCINATION; VACCINATION COVERAGE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WAR;

ARMED CONFLICTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONTACT TRACING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; EBOLA VACCINES; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 85069908416     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1904253     Document Type: Review

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