Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa — No Early End to the Outbreak

2014/08/20 by Margaret Chan · 248 citations
Medicine · #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research #Outbreak #Medicine #Ebola virus #Virology #Disease #Pathology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1056/nejmp1409859

published in New England Journal of Medicine 371(13), 1183-1185 (Massachusetts Medical Society)

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Abstract

The Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has grown so large and severe primarily because these countries are among the world's poorest. Poverty, dysfunctional health systems, and fear remain formidable obstacles to ending the outbreak.

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