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Post-Ebola Syndrome, Sierra Leone - Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC

Overview of attention for article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 2016
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58 X users
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Title
Post-Ebola Syndrome, Sierra Leone - Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
Published in
Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 2016
DOI 10.3201/eid2204.151302
Pubmed ID
Authors

Janet T. Scott, Foday R. Sesay, Thomas A. Massaquoi, Baimba R. Idriss, Foday Sahr, Malcolm G. Semple

Abstract

Thousands of persons have survived Ebola virus disease. Almost all survivors describe symptoms that persist or develop after hospital discharge. A cross-sectional survey of the symptoms of all survivors from the Ebola treatment unit (ETU) at 34th Regimental Military Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone (MH34), was conducted after discharge at their initial follow-up appointment within 3 weeks after their second negative PCR result. From its opening on December 1, 2014, through March 31, 2015, the MH34 ETU treated 84 persons (8-70 years of age) with PCR-confirmed Ebola virus disease, of whom 44 survived. Survivors reported musculoskeletal pain (70%), headache (48%), and ocular problems (14%). Those who reported headache had had lower admission cycle threshold Ebola PCR than did those who did not (p<0.03). This complete survivor cohort from 1 ETU enables analysis of the proportion of symptoms of post-Ebola syndrome. The Ebola epidemic is waning, but the effects of the disease will remain.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Sierra Leone 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 148 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 25 16%
Student > Master 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Student > Bachelor 16 11%
Other 12 8%
Other 29 19%
Unknown 26 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 9%
Social Sciences 12 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 11 7%
Other 25 16%
Unknown 38 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 212. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2024.
All research outputs
#183,893
of 25,506,250 outputs
Outputs from Emerging Infectious Diseases
#328
of 9,724 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,298
of 314,981 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Emerging Infectious Diseases
#6
of 136 outputs
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