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Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present

Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present

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This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the worlds cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.
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Cambridge University Press
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9780521188203
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Publication date
2011
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
230
Dimensions (mm)
152.00 x 229.00
Weight (g)
340
  • 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, 1821-94; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley:: Tunisia, 1835-68, 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.
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