outbreaks (version 1.9.0)

ebola_sierraleone_2014: Ebola in Sierra Leone, 2014

Description

These data consist of confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Sierra Leone from 2014 to 2015.

Usage

ebola_sierraleone_2014

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 11,903 rows and 8 columns

id

Case ID

age

Age

sex

Sex

status

Case definition (confirmed or suspected)

date_of_onset

Date of symptom onset

date_of_sample

Date of sample testing

district

District

chiefdom

Chiefdom

The linelist data reported by Fang et al. (2016) cover the period 2014-05-18 to 2015-09-13, over which time there were 8538 confirmed cases and 3545 suspected cases.

References

L. Fang, et al. 2016. Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (16) 4488-4493; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518587113

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
## show first few cases
head(ebola_sierraleone_2014)

# }

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