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Ebola - How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic (Hardcover)
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Ebola - How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic (Hardcover)
Series: African Arguments
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Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 From December 2013,
the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa,
claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By
the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by
hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected
within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted
to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease
was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside
observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards draws on his extensive
first-hand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the
international community's panicky response failed to take account
of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that
the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in
those areas where it supported these initiatives and that it
hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.
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