Social pathways for Ebola virus disease in rural Sierra Leone, and some implications for containment.

• Main Authors: Paul Richards (Author), Joseph Amara (Author), Mariane C Ferme (Author), Prince Kamara (Author), Esther Mokuwa (Author), Amara Idara Sheriff (Author), Roland Suluku (Author), Maarten Voors (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Upper West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Molecular evidence suggests spread has been almost exclusively through human-to-human contact. Social factors are thus clearly important to understand the epidemic and ways in which it might be stopped, bu...