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Wilson, Reid (Journalist).
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Ebola virus disease.
Epidemics -- Prevention -- International cooperation.
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Wilson, Reid (Journalist).
Ebola virus disease.
Epidemics -- Prevention -- International cooperation.
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Epidemic : Ebola and the global race to prevent the next killer outbreak / Reid Wilson.
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Wilson, Reid (Journalist).
Brookings Institution Press, 2018.
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614
.588
W752e
Subjects
Ebola virus disease.
Epidemics -- Prevention -- International cooperation.
ISBN:
9780815731351 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Ebola and the global race to prevent the next killer outbreak
Description:
xiv, 298 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
Contents:
Emile -- A mysterious killer -- Into the fight -- A turning point -- Roaring back -- Death of a hero -- Lagos -- The samaritans -- A call for help -- 70-30 -- Darkest days -- Deployment -- Dallas -- The Ebola czar -- Panic and quarantine -- The Obama phones -- The burial team -- A waning tide -- Medicine without borders -- The next outbreak.
Summary:
In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world's first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions. In an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, even a localized epidemic can become a pandemic. Ebola's spread through West Africa to Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States sounded global alarms that the next killer outbreak is right around the corner and that the world is woefully unprepared to combat a new deadly disease. From the poorest villages of rural West Africa to the Oval Office itself, this book tells the story of a deadly virus that spun wildly out of control and reveals the truth about how close the world came to a catastrophic global pandemic.
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