Sarthak07/ZEBOV-2013-WAfrica-data

Select data for the 2013- outbreak of Zaire Ebola in West Africa This data has been extracted from various sources to facilitate compartmental modeling efforts. The dataset is designed for simplicity of access. ## The Setup The main flatfile is kept in a large OpenOffice Spreadsheet. The summary and Sierra Leone country file are extracted with R. For sample R code to select a given region see the doSummary file. ## Disclaimer Obvious errors are obvious. This data is prone to off-by-one errors on the date, because results for a given day are often from the day before. Data gleaned from the preliminary NEJM article were literally picked from charts. ## Field Definitions * Total cases are suspect, probable and confirmed cases * Current Admitted is the total number of patients in isolation care centers * Total Recover is the number of recovered survivors of the disease * Total Death is the number of reported deaths, suspect, probable and confirmed * House is a binary operator for national house level quarantine.