Some of the most interesting stuff that has crossed my desk on the spread of Ebola codes from the anthropologists who have been working in West Africa for a long time:
http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/590-village-funerals-and-the-spread-of-ebola-virus-disease
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2014/10/31/social-pathways-ebola-virus-disease-rural-sierra-leone-implications-containment/
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I want to save a bookmark to this little table in a big report on the economic impacts of Ebola in West Africa: World Bank country offices in Nigeria and Senegal produced estimates of the cost of successfully tracing contacts when responding to imported cases. Expensive, but worth it!
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A few links to Les Roberts blogging from Sierra Leone:
http://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/les-says-farewell/
http://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/oneheavygig/
http://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/les-roberts-the-prediction-landscape-is-looking-bad/
http://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/les-roberts-day-10-leaving-columbia-to-be-at-peace-with-columbia/
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