Temporal Variations in the Effective Reproduction Number of the 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak
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Temporal Variations in the Effective Reproduction Number of the 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak
Background The rapidly evolving 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa is the largest documented in history, both in terms of the number of people infected and in the geographic spread. The high morbidity and mortality have inspired response strategies to the outbreak at the individual, regional, and national levels. Methods to provide real-time assessment of changing transmissi...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Currents
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2157-3999
DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.9e4c4294ec8ce1adad283172b16bc908