Epidemic : Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak /

A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for the next great threat. In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Reid
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ebola virus disease.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Maladie à virus Ebola.
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Epidemics > Prevention > International cooperation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Emile
  • A mysterious killer
  • Into the fight
  • A turning point
  • Roaring back
  • Death of a hero
  • Lagos
  • The samaritans
  • A call for help
  • 70-30
  • Darkest days
  • Deployment
  • Dallas
  • The Ebola czar
  • Panic and quarantine
  • The Obama phones
  • The burial team
  • A waning tide
  • Medicine without borders
  • The next outbreak.

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