Ebola: Profile of a Killer Virus

by Dorothy H. Crawford

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious disease spread rapidly from villages to urban centres. Initial quarantine responses proved often too little and too late, and the medical infrastructure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198759991
• ISBN13: 9780198759997
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"