Ebola in Sierra Leone, 2014 — ebola_sierraleone

These data consist of confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Sierra Leone from 2014 to 2015.

ebola_sierraleone_2014

Format

A data frame with 11,903 rows and 8 columns

id: Case ID
age: Age
sex: Sex
status: Case definition (confirmed or suspected)
date_of_onset: Date of symptom onset
date_of_sample: Date of sample testing
district: District
chiefdom: Chiefdom

The linelist data reported by Fang et al. (2016) cover the period 2014-05-18 to 2015-09-13, over which time there were 8538 confirmed cases and 3545 suspected cases.

Source

Fang et al. (2016)

References

L. Fang, et al. 2016. Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (16) 4488-4493; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518587113

Author

Data from Fang et al. (2016) Transfer to R and documentation by Finlay Campbell (finlaycampbell93@gmail.com).

Examples

## show first few cases
head(ebola_sierraleone_2014)
#>   id age sex    status date_of_onset date_of_sample district    chiefdom
#> 1  1  20   F confirmed    2014-05-18     2014-05-23 Kailahun  Kissi Teng
#> 2  2  42   F confirmed    2014-05-20     2014-05-25 Kailahun  Kissi Teng
#> 3  3  45   F confirmed    2014-05-20     2014-05-25 Kailahun Kissi Tonge
#> 4  4  15   F confirmed    2014-05-21     2014-05-26 Kailahun  Kissi Teng
#> 5  5  19   F confirmed    2014-05-21     2014-05-26 Kailahun  Kissi Teng
#> 6  6  55   F confirmed    2014-05-21     2014-05-26 Kailahun  Kissi Teng