Echenberg, Myron J. <br/><br/>
Africa in the time of cholera  a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present /  [electronic resource] : 
Myron Echenberg. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2011. 
 - xvi, 208 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - African studies ;  114 .
 - African studies series ;  114. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107001497  9780521188203 9781139080484  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--History--Africa--19th century.--History--Africa--20th century.--History--Africa--21st century.--History.--Africa
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cholera Cholera Cholera Epidemics 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/><br/>Fernzugriff