Ebola Virus Disease among Children in West Africa
Open Access
- 26 March 2015
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 372 (13), 1274-1277
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1415318
Abstract
The epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa has caused clinical illness and deaths among persons with reported ages ranging from less than 1 year to more than 100 years. Most published estimates of key epidemiologic parameters have been based on patients of all ages1,2 and have thus been dominated by cases in which patients are 16 years of age or older, and as of January 5, 2015, these cases accounted for 79% of the confirmed and probable cases for which age has been reported.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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