Post-Ebola Measles Outbreak in Lola, Guinea, January–June 2015

During public health crises such as the recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in West Africa, breakdowns in public health systems can lead to epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases. We report here on an outbreak of measles in the prefecture of Lola, Guinea, which started in January 2015.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2016-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid2206.151652PMID 27191621PMCID 4880080
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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