Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Masindi District, Uganda: outbreak description and lessons learned

BACKGROUND: Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is infamous for its high case-fatality proportion (CFP) and the ease with which it spreads among contacts of the diseased. We describe the course of the EHF outbreak in Masindi, Uganda, in the year 2000, and report on response activities. METHODS: We analys...

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Autores principales: Borchert, Matthias, Mutyaba, Imaam, Van Kerkhove, Maria D, Lutwama, Julius, Luwaga, Henry, Bisoborwa, Geoffrey, Turyagaruka, John, Pirard, Patricia, Ndayimirije, Nestor, Roddy, Paul, Van Der Stuyft, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22204600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-357

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