Ebola in west Africa: from disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis

Lancet Infect Dis. 2014 Nov;14(11):1034-1035. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70956-9. Epub 2014 Oct 1.

Authors

Peter Piot¹, Jean-Jacques Muyembe², W John Edmunds³

Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
³ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.

PMID: 25282665
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70956-9

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MeSH terms

Africa, Western / epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control / methods
Developing Countries
Epidemics*
Health Services Accessibility*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology*
Humans
Socioeconomic Factors*