West African Ebola epidemic: lessons and a call to action

The current Ebola epidemic in West Africa is unprecedented in terms of magnitude and spread. A year after the index case had been identified in a remote village in Guinea, over 17,000 cases and 6,000 deaths were reported in Africa and beyond. Many interventions have been implemented but the outbreak...

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Autor principal: Ameme, Donne Kofi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Letter to the Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26740834
http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2015.22.1.6040
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spelling pubmed-46955222016-01-06 West African Ebola epidemic: lessons and a call to action Ameme, Donne Kofi Pan Afr Med J Letter to the Editors The current Ebola epidemic in West Africa is unprecedented in terms of magnitude and spread. A year after the index case had been identified in a remote village in Guinea, over 17,000 cases and 6,000 deaths were reported in Africa and beyond. Many interventions have been implemented but the outbreak rages on. This paper examines key gaps in the interventions and calls for evidence-based actions to reverse the trend and prevent future epidemics of this proportion. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4695522/ /pubmed/26740834 http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2015.22.1.6040 Text en © Donne Kofi Ameme et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695522/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2015.22.1.6040
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