Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present Myron Echenberg.
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TextSeries: African studies (Cambridge, England) ; 114.Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xvi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780521188203 (pbk.)
- Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
- Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
- Epidemics -- History -- Africa
- Cholera -- history -- Africa
- Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Africa
- History, 19th Century -- Africa
- History, 20th Century -- Africa
- History, 21st Century -- Africa
- 614.514096 ECH/Afr 22
- RA644.C3 E24 2011
- 2011 D-807
- WC 264
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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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