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020 _a9781783608584
082 _a614.588RIC
100 _aRichards, Paul.
245 0 _aEbola
_bhow a people's science helped end an epidemic
260 _aLondon
_bZed Books
_c2016
300 _axi,174p.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aIn 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 outside observers get it so wrong?
650 _aEbola virus disease -- Africa; Ebola virus disease -- Africa -- Prevention -- International cooperation; Humanitarian assistance;
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