Fwd: U.S. Forest Service researchers - Social Vulnerability and Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Liberia

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> From: Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>
> Subject: U.S. Forest Service researchers - Social Vulnerability and Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Liberia
> Date: September 16, 2015 at 9:24:17 AM EDT
> To: "M. D. Michael McDonald" <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>, Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com>
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> Mike / Albert
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> FYI . . . A newly published research study by U.S. Forest Service researchers demonstrates that the social vulnerability indices used in climate change and natural hazards research can also be used in other contexts such as disease outbreaks.
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> Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia
>> http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/news/597 <http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/news/597>
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> PLOS ONE - Social Vulnerability and Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Liberia
> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137208 <http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137208>
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> Kathy