Book ID: CBB001252797

Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present (2011)

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Echenberg, Myron J. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xvi + 208 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Cholera's explosion in Africa involves such variables as migration, armed conflict, climate change, and changing disease ecology. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually -- Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths -- and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering of thousands of infants and children who survive the disease but are left with acute developmental impairment is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. Cholera is no longer a bio-medical riddle. Inexpensive and effective oral rehydration therapy can now control the impact of cholera, while modest investment in potable water and sewage infrastructure helps prevent major outbreaks. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.

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Authors & Contributors
Likhtman, Shimon
Chandra, Siddharth
Pouget, Benoît
Brigo, Francesco
Stefania Achella
Martini, Mariano
Concepts
Public health
Pandemics
Disease and diseases
Cholera
Medicine and society
Epidemics
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Europe
Africa
Portugal
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Angola
England
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Royal Society of London
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