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Forty-two years of responding to Ebola virus outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review

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  • Sima Rugarabamu SACIDS Foundation for One Health – Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Human and Animals, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Chuo Kikuu, TanzaniaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Leonard Mboera SACIDS Foundation for One Health – Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Human and Animals, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Chuo Kikuu, Tanzania PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mark Rweyemamu SACIDS Foundation for One Health – Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Human and Animals, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Chuo Kikuu, Tanzania PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gaspary Mwanyika SACIDS Foundation for One Health – Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Human and Animals, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Chuo Kikuu, TanzaniaDepartment of Health Science and Technology, Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Mbeya, Tanzania PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julius Lutwama Department of Arbovirology, Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Uganda Virus research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Janusz Paweska National Institute of Communicable Diseases, National Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gerald Misinzo SACIDS Foundation for One Health – Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Human and Animals, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Chuo Kikuu, Tanzania PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sima Rugarabamu; sima.rugarabamu{at}sacids.org
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Rugarabamu S, Mboera L, Rweyemamu M, et al
Forty-two years of responding to Ebola virus outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review
BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e001955.

Publication history

  • Received September 3, 2019
  • Revised January 16, 2020
  • Accepted January 27, 2020
  • First published March 8, 2020.
Online issue publication 
July 23, 2020

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