Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land

A few years ago, only some students of geography knew that Ebola was the name of a small river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1976, in the village of Yambuku, a man died of a rare hemorrhagic fever which alerted the scientific world. Rumor has it that this man bought a fruit bat and later c...

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Coiffman, Felipe
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2016
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health
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salud pública
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title Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
spellingShingle Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health
ébola
salud pública
virus
ebola
virus
public health
title_short Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
title_full Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
title_fullStr Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
title_full_unstemmed Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
title_sort Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Coiffman, Felipe
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Coiffman, Felipe
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ébola
salud pública
virus
ebola
virus
public health
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salud pública
virus
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virus
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