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100			_aEchenberg, Myron J.
245			_a Africa in the time of cholera : _ba history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / _cMyron Echenberg.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_axvi, 208 p. : _bill., map ; _c23 cm.
490			_aAfrican studies ; _v 114
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aMachine generated contents note: 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: Se negambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947; Part II . The Seventh Cholera Pandemic Strikes Africa: 5. Medical changes; 6. S eventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk facto rs: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimba bwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.
520			_a"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to exa mine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provi ded by publisher.
650			_aCholera _zAfrica _xHistory _y 19th century.
650			_aCholera _zAfrica _xHistory _y 20th century.
650			_aCholera _zAfrica _xHistory _y 21st century.
650			_aEpidemics _xHistory _zAfrica.
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