An account of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria: implications and lessons learnt

• Main Authors: Akaninyene Otu (Author), Soter Ameh (Author), Egbe Osifo-Dawodu (Author), Enoma Alade (Author), Susan Ekuri (Author), Jide Idris (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak remains unprecedented both in the number of cases, deaths and geographic scope. The first case of EVD was confirmed in Lagos Nigeria on 23 July 2014 and spread to involve 19 laboratory-confirmed EVD cases. The EVD cases were not limited...