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Health seeking behavior after the 2013–16 Ebola epidemic: Lassa fever as a metric of persistent changes in Kenema District, Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND: The West African Ebola epidemic of 2013–2016 killed nearly 4,000 Sierra Leoneans and devastated health infrastructure across West Africa. Changes in health seeking behavior (HSB) during the outbreak resulted in dramatic underreporting and substantial declines in hospital presentations to...

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Autores principales:	Koch, Mikaela R., Kanneh, Lansana, Wise, Paul H., Kurina, Lianne M., Alhasan, Foday, Garry, Robert F., Schieffelin, John S., Shaffer, Jeffrey G., Grant, Donald S.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34260615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009576

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