title: Ebola in west Africa: from disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: peter.piot@lshtm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piot
authors.affiliation: Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
authors.forename: Jean-Jacques
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Muyembe
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.
authors.forename: W John
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Edmunds
mesh_terms: D000354:Africa, Western / Q000453:epidemiology; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods; D003906:Developing Countries; D058872:Epidemics; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors