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  • Citing overlooked social, economic, health impacts, study estimates West Africa Ebola outbreak costs

    During the 2013 to 2016 spread of Ebola across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as health systems and health workers were overtaken by the impacts of the virus, about a million fewer children in the affected areas were vaccinated against measles who otherwise would have been — leading to the possibility of from 2,000 to 16,000 additional measles-related deaths in the years to come.