ebola_sierraleone_2014 {outbreaks}

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

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.

Author(s)

Data from Fang et al. (2016) Transfer to R and documentation by Finlay Campbell ([e-mail]).

Source

Fang et al. (2016)

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

## show first few cases
head(ebola_sierraleone_2014)