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Peer reviewedHistorical baselineOpen accessEbola

Ebola virus disease in West Africa--the first 9 months of the epidemic and forward projections.

The New England journal of medicine·

WHO Ebola Response Team, Aylward B, Barboza P, Bawo L, Bertherat E, Bilivogui P, Blake I, Brennan R

DOI
10.1056/nejmoa1411100
PMID
25244186
PMCID
PMC4235004
OpenAlex
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.

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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.

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Related GIDS surveillance

Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.

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Evidence relationships

This article has 9 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.

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