Editor's Note #19 VDU takes a pause...[UPDATE]

With so many other great, and sometimes overlapping, graphical sources of MERS-CoV information around right now, this seems like a good time to take a break from blogging for a while. In the short-term, I'm going to devote my hobby-time to some other virus-related reading & quite...

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Ebola virus disease (EVD) 2014 West African outbreak..

I will update this static page (link won't change so you can bookmark it) with the 2014 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) numbers after they are released by the World Health Organization (WHO). The date these graphs were last updated is listed at the top of the first panel or "dashboard" of graphs an totals .The WHO create multi-page Situation Reports [2] and brief Situation Summaries.[3]...

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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) West Africa update for 1-July-2014... [UPDATED]

Some quick visualizations of the Zaire ebolavirus outbreak data based, as previously,[1] on the World Health Organization's publicly available data.The presentation below is made using Tableau, a new platform for me so please let me know of anything that has failed, numbers that are wrong, something that's translated / formatted badly on your device...whatever. Tableau...

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