Ebola: Improving the Design of Protective Clothing for Emergency Workers Allows Them to Better Cope with Heat Stress and Help to Contain the Epidemic
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Ebola: Improving the Design of Protective Clothing for Emergency Workers Allows Them to Better Cope with Heat Stress and Help to Contain the Epidemic Kalev Kuklane1, Karin Lundgren1, Chuansi Gao1, Jakob Löndahl1, Elisabeth Dalholm Hornyanszky1, Per-Olof Östergren2, Per Becker3, Marcella C. Samuels4, Pernille Gooch4, Catharina Sternudd5, Maria Albin6, Tahir Taj6, Ebba Malmqvist6, Erik Swietlicki7, Lennart Olsson8, Kenneth Persson9, Johanna Alkan Olsson10,11 and Tord Kjellstrom12,13
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