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Comment
. 2015 Feb;20(1):28.
doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2014-110127. Epub 2014 Dec 18.

The unprecedented scale of the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak is due to environmental and sociological factors, not special attributes of the currently circulating strain of the virus

Derek Gatherer  1
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Comment

The unprecedented scale of the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak is due to environmental and sociological factors, not special attributes of the currently circulating strain of the virus

Derek Gatherer. Evid Based Med. 2015 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: PUBLIC HEALTH; VIROLOGY.

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