Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa — The First 9 Months

Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa — The First 9 Months

To the Editor: The World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola Response Team (Oct. 16 issue) 1 predicted that the current Ebola epidemic would claim a dreadful 20,000 combined cases by early November 2014, assuming no change in the control measures applied in West Africa. The threat that Ebola poses to na...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2015-01, Vol.372 (2), p.188-189
Hauptverfasser: Rebaudet, Stanislas, Moore, Sandra, Piarroux, Renaud, Helleringer, Stéphane, Grépin, Karen A, Noymer, Andrew, Dye, Christopher
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cholera
Ebola virus
Ebolavirus
Epidemics
Epidemics - statistics & numerical data
Female
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology
Humans
Male
Public health
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Zusammenfassung:To the Editor: The World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola Response Team (Oct. 16 issue) 1 predicted that the current Ebola epidemic would claim a dreadful 20,000 combined cases by early November 2014, assuming no change in the control measures applied in West Africa. The threat that Ebola poses to national public health and social, economic, and security foundations may worsen if a secondary epidemic eventually explodes in the region. Since June 2014, nearby Ghana has been affected by a serious cholera epidemic that was responsible for 12,622 cases as of September 6. 2 Current cholera and Ebola zones are separated by Ivory . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMc1413884