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Ebola

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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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ISBN: 9781783608591
Publication date: 15th September 2016
Author: Paul Richards
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 192 pages
Series: African Arguments
Genres: Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions
Infectious and contagious diseases
Infectious and contagious diseases
Development studies