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100 1 _aEchenberg, Myron J.
245 1 0 _aAfrica in the time of cholera
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba history of pandemics from 1817 to the present /
_cMyron Echenberg.
264 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _axvi, 208 p. :
_bill., maps.
490 1 _aAfrican studies ;
_v114
500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
520 _a"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _zAfrica
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _zAfrica
_xHistory
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650 0 _zAfrica
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650 0 _zAfrica
_xHistory.
653 _aCholera
653 _aCholera
653 _aCholera
653 _aEpidemics
655 4 _aElectronic books.
655 _aFernzugriff
830 0 _aAfrican studies series ;
_v114.
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