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. 2014 Nov 1;105(6):e466. doi: 10.17269/cjph.105.4883

Increasing public awareness of Ebola virus disease symptoms using a pictogram based poster

Andrea Walsh 1, Régis Vaillancourt 1,, Annie Pouliot 1
PMCID: PMC6972464  PMID: 25560898

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