PLOS Resources on Ebola - Speaking of Medicine

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-08

Summary:

"The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa probably began in Guinea in 2013, but it was only recognized properly in early 2014 and shows, at the time of writing, no sign of subsiding. The continuous human-to-human transmission of this new outbreak virus has become increasingly worrisome. Analyses thus far of this outbreak mark it as the most serious in recent years and the effects are already being felt far beyond those who are infected and dying; whole communities in West Africa are suffering because of its negative effects on health care and other infrastructures. Globally, countries far removed from the outbreak are considering their local responses, were Ebola to be imported; and the ripple effects on the normal movement of trade and people are just becoming apparent. There is an urgent need for research into all aspects of this Ebola outbreak.  PLOS is addressing this need today through two channels.  First is the rapid publication of important early research in PLOS Currents Outbreaks.  The second is a new PLOS Collection that pulls together all the current published articles in the PLOS corpus, which are, like all our content, freely and openly available for download, use and reuse. The Collection is available on Flipboard as well as being described below ..."

Link:

http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2014/09/05/plos-resources-ebola/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.africa oa.advocacy oa.public_health oa.gold oa.plos oa.journals oa.south

Date tagged:

09/08/2014, 15:33

Date published:

09/08/2014, 11:33