Deadly river : cholera and cover-up in post-earthquake Haiti / Ralph R. Frerichs.

  • Frerichs, Ralph R.
Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2016]

Physical description

xi, 301 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Upheaval -- Vibrio cholerae -- Rumors -- Stealth -- Hypotheses -- Maps -- Altered reality -- Journalist -- Secrecy -- Obfuscation -- Speculation -- Pandemics and South Asia -- Report -- Vodou and cholera -- Inquiry -- Politics before science -- Nepal -- Concealed in the field -- Quarantine and isolation -- The wall cracks -- Answers -- Sanitation, water, and vaccination -- Struggles and elimination -- Rapprochement.

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    History of Medicine
    FK.735.AA10
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ISBN

  • 9781501702303
  • 1501702300