Deadly River : : Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti /

Deadly River : : Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti / / Ralph R. Frerichs.

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In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold-soon to become the world's largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Frerichs, Ralph R.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 halftone, 10 maps, 5 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Upheaval
  • 2. Vibrio Cholerae
  • 3. Rumors
  • 4. Stealth
  • 5. Hypotheses
  • 6. Maps
  • 7. Altered Reality
  • 8. Journalists
  • 9. Secrecy
  • 10. Obfuscation
  • 11. Speculation
  • 12. Pandemics and South Asia
  • 13. Report
  • 14. Vodou and Cholera
  • 15. Inquiry
  • 16. Politics before Science
  • 17. Nepal
  • 18. Concealed in the Field
  • 19. Quarantine and Isolation
  • 20. The Wall Cracks
  • 21. Answers
  • 22. Sanitation, Water, and Vaccination
  • 23. Struggles and Elimination
  • 24. Rapprochement
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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