Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present /

"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher.

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Hlavní autor: Echenberg, Myron J.
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Edice:African studies series ; 114.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The First Six Cholera Pandemics, 1817-1947: 1. 'The fiend of pestilence' circles the globe; 2. Medical responses; 3. Cholera ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947; Part II. The Seventh Cholera Pandemic Strikes Africa: 5. Medical changes; 6. Seventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk factors: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.