The first mile: community experience of outbreak control during an Ebola outbreak in Luwero District, Uganda

BACKGROUND: A major challenge to outbreak control lies in early detection of viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) in local community contexts during the critical initial stages of an epidemic, when risk of spreading is its highest (“the first mile”). In this paper we document how a major Ebola outbreak...

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Autores principales: de Vries, Daniel H., Rwemisisi, Jude T., Musinguzi, Laban K., Benoni, Turinawe E., Muhangi, Denis, de Groot, Marije, Kaawa-Mafigiri, David, Pool, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26883621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2852-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26883621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2852-0

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