What Factors Might Have Led to the Emergence of Ebola in West Africa?

Kathleen A. Alexander; Claire E. Sanderson; Madav Marathe; Bryan L. Lewis; Caitlin M. Rivers; Jeffrey Shaman; John M. Drake; Eric Lofgren; Virginia M. Dato; Marisa C. Eisenberg; Stephen Eubank

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003652

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What Factors Might Have Led to the Emergence of Ebola in West Africa?

Kathleen A. Alexander ,

* E-mail: kathyalx@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Claire E. Sanderson,

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Madav Marathe,

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Bryan L. Lewis,

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Caitlin M. Rivers,

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Jeffrey Shaman,

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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John M. Drake,

Affiliation Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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Eric Lofgren,

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Virginia M. Dato,

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Marisa C. Eisenberg,

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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Stephen Eubank

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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What Factors Might Have Led to the Emergence of Ebola in West Africa?

Kathleen A. Alexander,
Claire E. Sanderson,
Madav Marathe,
Bryan L. Lewis,
Caitlin M. Rivers,
Jeffrey Shaman,
John M. Drake,
Eric Lofgren,
Virginia M. Dato,
Marisa C. Eisenberg

Published: June 4, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003652

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