Ebola virus disease in West Africa--the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections.
The New England journal of medicine·
- DOI
- 10.1056/nejmoa1411100
- PMID
- 25244186
- PMCID
- PMC4235004
- OpenAlex
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- Study type
- Mathematical modelling
- Publisher
- Publisher unavailable
- Article type
- journal-article
- Integrity
- current
Why this research matters now
A central West Africa Ebola epidemic analysis connecting case surveillance with forward projections.
Structured evidence summary
Research question
What did the first nine months of the West Africa Ebola epidemic imply for future epidemic trajectory?
Study design
Epidemic analysis with forward projections.
Population and setting
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
Main findings
This field has not yet received a quality-gated evidence summary. Consult the original article.
Public-health relevance
Shows how surveillance data can support epidemic projection and response planning.
Important limitations
Limitations could not be fully assessed from the available metadata.
GIDS interpretation
Use as historical context for signal-to-literature links during Ebola events.
Related GIDS surveillance
Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.
Evidence relationships
This article has 9 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.