Ebola Science Resources

This post was created initially to save me searching around for links while looking for updates.  But hopefully it will help you too.

It will almost certainly grow; please feel free to send me relevant links in any given category – either through the comments, or @harlingg or through email.  Thanks.

1. Scientific work

• Journal collections of Ebola-related material, either Ebola-specific pages, searches for Ebola or journals with low throughput and high proportion Ebola.
  • Science. Heavier on basic science of the virus
  • The Lancet. Heavier on clinical matters
  • New England Journal of Medicine. Heavier on epidemiology
  • The BMJ.  Very little research to date.
  • JAMA.  This is a search results, rather than a dedicated landing, page.
  • MMWR. Operational research; run by the US CDC.
  • PLoS Currents Outbreaks. Rapid review; becoming a go-to journal for Ebola, despite being very new.
  • Eurosurveillance. Mixture of operations and epidemiology; run by the European CDC.
  • The arXiv. Pre-prints of more technical scientific pieces, some of which have been subsequently published.
  • BMC and Springer journals. Heavier on viriology.

2. Data sources

• Numbers
  • World Health Organization situation reports (every Weds/Fri)
  • Guinea national data, via UN OCHA and sometimes via the French Embassy website (but this can take digging, the 14th October update isn’t linked on the News page).
  • Sierra Leone national data
  • Liberia national data (impressive interactive data, but no sitreps since 11th October – written on 18 Oct)
  • Caitlin Rivers maintains an Ebola github including much of this, including county-level figures
    • Datamarket has made these data available through its API.

• • WHO (infrequently updated)
  • Healthmap (crowdsourced via social media)
  • Openstreetmap. A basemap for other work, such as:
    • Ebola e-tracking (Cedric Moro)

Acknowledgements:

• Several of these links were lifted from the NYU Ebola Hackathon page (1-2 Nov if you are in the area).
• For up-to-date information I would also recommend ReliefWeb’s Ebola monitoring page.
• Tech4relief maintains a resource list focused on data sources.
• And Defense One has a nice overview of many of the above sources but with real sentences.
• And for something (far) more wide-ranging than this, see Lab Rat‘s Ebola reference page.