Deadly river : cholera and cover-up in post-earthquake Haiti /

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In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold--soon to become the world's largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frerichs, Ralph R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Subjects:
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
2010
Cholera > Haiti > Epidemiology.
Earthquake relief > Haiti > International cooperation.
Emergency medical services > Haiti > International cooperation.
Humanitarian assistance > Haiti > International cooperation.
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.
Water-supply.
Emergency medical services.
Water Supply
Cholera > epidemiology
Waterborne Diseases > epidemiology
Emergency Medical Services
Disasters > prevention & control
Choléra > Haïti > Épidémiologie.
Services des urgences médicales > Haïti > Coopération internationale.
Aide humanitaire > Haïti > Coopération internationale.
Tremblement de terre d'Haïti, Haïti, 2010.
Eau > Approvisionnement.
Services des urgences médicales.
emergency medical centers.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Cholera > Epidemiology.
Emergency medical services > International cooperation.
Haiti
Haiti.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Upheaval
  • Vibrio cholerae
  • Rumors
  • Stealth
  • Hypotheses
  • Maps
  • Altered reality
  • Journalist
  • Secrecy
  • Obfuscation
  • Speculation
  • Pandemics and South Asia
  • Report
  • Vodou and cholera
  • Inquiry
  • Politics before science
  • Nepal
  • Concealed in the field
  • Quarantine and isolation
  • The wall cracks
  • Answers
  • Sanitation, water, and vaccination
  • Struggles and elimination
  • Rapprochement.

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