Extending the "social": anthropological contributions to the study of viral haemorrhagic fevers

Hannah Brown; Ann H Kelly; Almudena Marí Sáez; Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet; Rashid Ansumana; Jesse Bonwitt; N'Faly Magassouba; Foday Sahr; Matthias Borchert

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003651

Extending the "social": anthropological contributions to the study of viral haemorrhagic fevers

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Apr 16;9(4):e0003651. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003651. eCollection 2015 Apr.

Authors

Hannah Brown¹, Ann H Kelly², Almudena Marí Sáez³, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet⁴, Rashid Ansumana⁵, Jesse Bonwitt¹, N'Faly Magassouba⁶, Foday Sahr⁷, Matthias Borchert⁸

Affiliations

¹ Anthropology Department, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.
² Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom; Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
³ Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
⁵ Mercy Hospital Research Laboratory, Bo, Sierra Leone.
⁶ Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, National Hospital Donka, Conakry, Guinea.
⁷ Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
⁸ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the German Research Council (DFG): BO3790/1-1 and FI1781/1-1 http://www.dfg.de/en/ The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.