Ebola : profile of a killer virus / Dorothy H. Crawford.

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious d...

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Main Author: Crawford, Dorothy H. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First Edition.
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Physical Description:xiii, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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