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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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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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