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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

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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. / Gatherer, Derek.
In: Evidence Based Medicine, Vol. 20, No. 1, 02.2015, p. 28.

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Gatherer, D 2015, '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', Evidence Based Medicine, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 28. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmed-2014-110127

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Gatherer, D. (2015). 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. Evidence Based Medicine, 20(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmed-2014-110127

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Gatherer D. 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. Evidence Based Medicine. 2015 Feb;20(1):28. Epub 2014 Dec 18. doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2014-110127

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Gatherer, Derek. / 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. In: Evidence Based Medicine. 2015 ; Vol. 20, No. 1. pp. 28.

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