Echenberg, Myron J. <br/><br/>
Africa in the time of cholera  a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present /  [Texte imprimé] : 
Myron Echenberg 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2011 
 - 1 vol. (XVI-208 p.) :  ill., cartep ;  23 cm 
 - African studies ;  114 .
 - African studies series (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) .
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<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/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1-1070-0149-7 1107001498 978-0-5211-8820-3 0521188202 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cholera Cholera Cholera Epidemics Cholera Disease Outbreaks History, 19th Century History, 20th Century History, 21st Century 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>614.514096