Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Light of Other Epidemics

The first part of this chapter discusses the common features of various epidemics and prevailing concepts related to spread and remission of epidemics. The current Ebola virus disease epidemic is compared with epidemics that occurred over the past centuries. The second part discusses the role of com...

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Autor principal: Qureshi, Adnan I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149723/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804230-4.00004-2
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spelling pubmed-71497232020-04-13 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Light of Other Epidemics Qureshi, Adnan I Ebola Virus Disease Article The first part of this chapter discusses the common features of various epidemics and prevailing concepts related to spread and remission of epidemics. The current Ebola virus disease epidemic is compared with epidemics that occurred over the past centuries. The second part discusses the role of community-wide preventive measures implemented in previous epidemics, the process of vaccine development, and the evolution of quarantine and current implementation across nations. 2016 2016-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7149723/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804230-4.00004-2 Text en Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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