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2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak

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This repository contains data extracted from the ECDC surveillance and Ministry of Health, Uganda bulletins in collaboration with the World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO).

Data changes

  • 2022-10-29: From this date data file (Surveillance_hospital_data_Ebola_outbreak.csv) contains case management summaries to accurately reflect the situation in hospitals.
  • 2022-11-11: From this date data files (epicurve_by_onset_date.csv, epicurve_by_notification_sex.csv) have cases (confirmed and probable) per date of notification by sex.
  • 2022-11-15: From this date data file (epicurve_by_onset_date_district.csv) have cases (confirmed and probable) per date of notification by district.

Getting the data

Direct download (CSV): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fbranda/ebola/main/Surveillance_data_Ebola_outbreak.csv

Python (requires pandas):

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fbranda/ebola/main/Surveillance_data_Ebola_outbreak.csv")

R (requires httr):

library(httr)
df <- read.csv(text=content(GET("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fbranda/ebola/main/Surveillance_data_Ebola_outbreak.csv")))

Contributions

  1. Branda F, Maruotti A. 2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak: early descriptions and open data. Journal of Medical Virology. 2022 Nov 24.
  2. Branda, Francesco and Mahal, Ahmed and Maruotti, Antonello and Pierini, Massimo and Mazzoli, Sandra. The challenges of open data for future epidemic preparedness: The experience of the 2022 Ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda

License and attribution

This repository and data exports are published under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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