Ebola in west Africa: from disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis
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Ebola in west Africa: from disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis.
1034 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 14 November 2014 The epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in west Africa is the 25th known outbreak since 1976, but is fundamentally diff erent from all previous cases. Besides the fact that it is the fi rst Ebola outbreak in west Africa, it is the largest and longest Ebola epidemic, and the fi rst to involve three entire countries and capital cities, with a...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1473-3099
DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(14)70956-9