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The 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak: Local contexts and future issues

2016-01-23

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Ebola is just one example of the many emerging and re-emerging diseases that continue to affect mainly the developing world. We argue that the unprecedented high level of infections and deaths in the 2013-2016 West African Ebola epidemic, together with the more general impact of Ebola and other emerging diseases on societies, is reflective of the unpreparedness of affected countries prior to an outbreak. Typically...

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Literature Corpus work: 5d24234a-5ab8-56bf-89f4-e5feb5041849
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1678v1

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