Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Masindi District, Uganda: outbreak description and lessons learned
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- 28 December 2011
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (1), 357
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-357
Abstract
Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is infamous for its high case-fatality proportion (CFP) and the ease with which it spreads among contacts of the diseased. We describe the course of the EHF outbreak in Masindi, Uganda, in the year 2000, and report on response activities.Keywords
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