Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
Echenberg, Myron J.
2011
RA644.C3 E24 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
Author Echenberg, Myron J.
ISBN 9781107001497
1107001498
9780521188203 (pbk.)
0521188202 (pbk.)
Publication Details New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xvi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number RA644.C3 E24 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5/14096
Summary "This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series African studies series ; 114.
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Part One. The first six pandemics, 1817-1947.
Cholera circles the globe
Medical responses
Cholera ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894
Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947.
Part Two. The seventh cholera pPandemic strikes Africa.
Medical changes
Seventh pandemic in Africa
Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees
Risk factors: public health policy choices among stable and weak states
Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state
Cholera today.

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