Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic

by Paul Richards

Book Overview

In 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea and sending the international community into panic. By 2014, experts were grimly predicting that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, at this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. Why did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783608587
• ISBN13: 9781783608584
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"