TY  - BOOK
AU  - Echenberg,Myron J.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Africa in the time of cholera: a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present 
T2  - African studies
AV  - RA644.C3 E24 2011eb
U1  - 614.5/14096 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cholera
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10470805
ER  -