The colliding epidemics of COVID-19, Ebola, and measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: jbn16@pitt.edu.
² National Institute of Biomedical Research and Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
³ World Health Organization, Health Emergencies Program, COVID-19 Response, Epidemiological Surveillance Team, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁴ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.

Jean B Nachega et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;8(8):e991-e992.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30281-3. Epub 2020 Jun 23.

¹ Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: jbn16@pitt.edu.
² National Institute of Biomedical Research and Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
³ World Health Organization, Health Emergencies Program, COVID-19 Response, Epidemiological Surveillance Team, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁴ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.

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