EBOLA: HOW A PEOPLE'S SCIENCE HELPED END AN EPIDEMIC

Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-181

  Richards, Paul ^a  

^a NJALA UNIVERSITY   (Sierra Leone)

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