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Exploratory investigation of region level risk factors of Ebola virus disease in West Africa

2018-08-03

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<h4>Background: </h4> Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a highly infectious disease that has produced over 25,000 cases in the past 50 years. While many past outbreaks resulted in relatively few cases, the 2014 outbreak in West Africa was the most deadly occurrence of EVD to date, producing over 15,000 confirmed cases. <h4>Objective: </h4> In this study, we investigated population level predictors of EVD risk at the r...

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Literature Corpus work: 7d117dc4-ab10-5acf-9218-c04e89eaabec
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3021v2

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