Is the United Nations catching up with Ebola at last?
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Is the United Nations catching up with Ebola at last?
Early inMay, six weeks after the first case of Ebola virus disease had been confirmed in west Africa and rapidly spread into three of the poorest countries in the world, the director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared a public health emergency of international concern. It is “an extraordinary event and a public health risk to other states for which a coordinated r...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6576