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Ebola - Profile of a Killer Virus (Hardcover)
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Ebola - Profile of a Killer Virus (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
You Save R36 (7%)
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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 of
the affected countries struggled to cope. By August 2014, several
months after the start of the outbreak, the WHO declared the
epidemic a public health emergency and international aid teams and
volunteers began to pour in. But halting the epidemic proved to be
hugely challenging, not only in terms of the practicalities of
dealing with the sheer numbers of patients carrying the highly
infectious virus, but in dealing with social and cultural barriers.
The author, Dorothy Crawford, visited Sierra Leone while the
epidemic was ongoing and met with those on the frontline in the
fight against the virus. In Ebola Crawford combines personal
accounts from these brave medical workers with the latest
scientific reports to tell the story of the epidemic as it
unfolded, and how it has changed our understanding of the virus.
She looks at its origin and spread, the international response, and
its devastating legacy to the health of those living in the three
worst affected countries. She describes the efforts to prevent
international spread, the treatment options for Ebola, including
the drug and vaccine trials that eventually got underway in 2015,
and the sensitive issue of running trials of experimental therapies
during a lethal epidemic. Our understanding of the Ebola virus
continues to develop as long-term health problems and complications
following recovery from the disease are being identified. Epidemics
of Ebola or other dangerous microbes will continue to threaten the
world regularly. Already concerns have been raised by the possible
impact of the Zika virus. What lessons have been learnt from Ebola?
How, asks Crawford, might we prevent a repeat of the awful
suffering seen in 2014-16?
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