Ebola Outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2017-2019
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Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
BACKGROUND The seventh reported outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the equatorial African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began on July 26, 2014, as another large EVD epidemic continued to spread in West Africa. Simultaneous reports of EVD in equatorial and West Africa raised the question of whether the two outbreaks were linked. METHODS We obtained data from patients ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Biosecurity
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2652-0036
DOI: 10.31646/gbio.31