Harnessing case isolation and ring vaccination to control Ebola.

Harnessing case isolation and ring vaccination to control Ebola.

As a devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues, non-pharmaceutical control measures including contact tracing, quarantine, and case isolation are being implemented. In addition, public health agencies are scaling up efforts to test and deploy candidate vaccines. Given the experimental natu...

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Main Authors: Chad Wells, Dan Yamin, Martial L Ndeffo-Mbah, Natasha Wenzel, Stephen G Gaffney, Jeffrey P Townsend, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Mosoka Fallah, Tolbert G Nyenswah, Frederick L Altice, Katherine E Atkins, Alison P Galvani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-05-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4449200?pdf=render

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