Ebola : profile of a killer virus

222 Pages·2016·1.69 MB·English

by  Crawford

Ebola
Ebola slogan on a wall in Freetown, Sierra leone, 2015.
Ebola
Profile of a Killer Virus
Dorothy h. CrawforD
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This book is dedicated to Dr Jean Alero Thomas (1945–2015)

aCKNowlEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank all those experts who helped and advised on
the writing of this book: Tim brooks, Public Health England,
Jeremy Farrar, wellcome Trust, Ian Goodfellow, University of
Cambridge, brian Greenwood, london School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, David Heymann, Public Health England and
Centre on Global Health Security, Paul Johnson, Public Health
England, Peter Piot, london School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, and Katrina Roper, world Health organization.
I am also indebted to the following for reading and commenting
on the manuscript: william alexander, Martin allday, Jeanne bell,
Richard boyd, Jude Fantes, Tanzina Haque, Ingolfur Johannessen,
barbara Judge, Jim Piper, Iain Ritchie, Paul Saba, bobby Stansfield,
Tara womersley, and to latha Menon at oxford University Press
for her constant support.
I am particularly grateful to Frances Fowler, who facilitated my
meetings with Ebola experts, and Tim brooks, who allowed me to
shadow him for a short time while he went about his busy sched-
ule in Sierra leone in april 2015.
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CoNTENTS
List of Figures xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1. when Disaster Strikes: The First Ebola outbreak 6
2. Ebola: The Virus and the Disease 27
3. Ebola: The Years after Yambuku 49
4. Ebola Strikes west africa: The Catastrophic
Events of 2014 73
5. Ebola Epidemic: The Fight back 91
6. Ebola Epidemic: The Endgame 113
7. 2014 Ebola Epidemic: where, when, and How? 136
8. Preventing Ebola 147
9. lessons learned 169
Postscript 179
Glossary 181
Notes 185
Index 197
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