The Ebola ça suffit Vaccine Trial Team. Ring vaccination for Ebola : a novel approach to evaluate vaccine efficacy and effectiveness during an outbreak

Henao-Restrepo
27
June
2015
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Journal article
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Ebola
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Humanitarian Research
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This paper describes the protocol for a novel cluster randomised controlled trial design which used ring vaccination, an approach to communicable disease control which identifies individuals at high risk of infection due to their social or geographical connection to a known case, in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

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