"Explores the history and impact of Ebola"--
EBOLA At a Catholic mission in Yambuku, a remote area of Zaire, Mabalo Lokela, a local teacher, visits the clinic with a raging fever.
Ebola, or hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF), is a disease that affects both humans and nonhuman primates.
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Here he tells the story of Ebola—its past, present, and its unknowable future. Extracted from Spillover by David Quammen, updated and with additional material.
Authored by two professionals in the medical and science fields, Ebola: An Emerging Infectious Disease Case Study analyzes the recent outbreak of the virus from a variety of angles and provides context for our understanding of emerging ...
Where does Ebola originate? How does it spread? And what should governments do to stop it? Few people understand the answers to these questions better than Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett.
But what, exactly, is Ebola? What are the symptoms? How is it spread? How is it treated? This text explains this disease and how the latest epidemic changed the way we look at viruses forever.
Framed with critical discussions of both the global health financing infrastructures that precipitated the response and the ethical and human rights dilemmas that resulted from it, this volume is much more than postmortem to an outbreak: it ...
With a growing awareness of the devastating effects of this viral disease and an influx of topical research, this book provides the information the global community of researchers, clinicians and students need to better inform their ...
Get started with Ebola myths and facts — find out what Ebola is, who it affects, where it began, why it's a global concern, and how it's transmitted Stay safe and healthy — understand the realities of Ebola for healthcare workers, how ...