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SUBMITTER: Takahashi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4691345 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150301 6227
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has caused substantial morbidity and mortality. The outbreak has also disrupted health care services, including childhood vaccinations, creating a second public health crisis. We project that after 6 to 18 months of disruptions, a large connected cluster of children unvaccinated for measles will accumulate across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This pool of susceptibility increases the expected size of a regional measles outbreak from 127,000 to 227,000 cases ...[more]