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It takes threat of Ebola to see lessons from low income countries

Authors: Matthew Harris, Viva Dadwal, Albert Wu, Shamsuzzoha B Syed

Published in: Globalization and Health | Issue 1/2015

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In his recent perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, the head of the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Thomas Frieden, and colleagues, were concerned that the arrival of the Ebola virus (EVD) in Lagos, Nigeria heralded a concerning escalation of the epidemic in West Africa [1]. By 24th September 2014, a total of 20 EVD cases (19 laboratory confirmed, one probable) had been reported in Nigeria. All 20 cases stemmed from a single index patient, a traveller returning from Liberia on 20th July 2014. Unless Nigeria responded quickly and effectively, the virus would spread rapidly in Africa’s largest city and into the country beyond [2]. …

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Title: It takes threat of Ebola to see lessons from low income countries
Authors: Matthew Harris
Viva Dadwal
Albert Wu
Shamsuzzoha B Syed
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Globalization and Health / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-015-0102-3

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