Understanding West Africa's Ebola Epidemic

From 2013 to 2015, over 11,000 people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first time the virus was able to spread beyond rural areas to major cities, overturning conventional assumptions about its epidemiology.With backgrounds ranging from development to disease control, the contributors to this volume - some of them based in countries affected by the Ebola epidemic - consider the underlying factors that shaped this unprecedented outbreak. While championing the heroic efforts of local communities and aid workers in halting the spread of the disease, the contributors also reveal deep structural problems in both the countries and humanitarian agencies involved, which hampered the efforts to contain the epidemic. Alarmingly, they show that little has been learned from these events, with health provision remaining underfunded and poorly equipped to deal with future outbreaks. Such issues, they argue, reflect the wider challenges we face in tackling epidemic disease in an increasingly interconnected world.>

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• Authors: Ibrahim Abdullah, Ibrahim Rashid Abdullah, Ismail Rashid
• Assisted by: Ibrahim Abdullah (Editor), Abdullah Ibrahim (Editor), Ismail Rashid (Editor), Rashid Ismail (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781786991683
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-168-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Security and Society in Africa; Print on Demand; Security and Society in Africa
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Infectious & contagious diseases, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Political Economy, Public health & preventive medicine, West Africa, Development Studies, Public health and preventive medicine, Infectious and contagious diseases, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, For higher / tertiary / university education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, For higher education, universities (Denmark)