Ebola's Message Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century [#445542]

Nicholas G. Evans, Tara C. Smith, Maimuna S. Majumder, "Ebola's Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century"
English | 2016 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0262035073 | PDF | 5,0 mb
The 2013-2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; a slow and mismanaged international response; and sensationalistic media coverage, seized upon by politicians to justify wrongheaded policy. And yet there were also promising developments that may improve future responses to infectious disease epidemics: the UN Security Council's first involvement in a public health event; a series of promising clinical treatments and vaccines for EVD; and recognition of the need for a global public health system to deal with epidemics that cross national borders. This volume offers a range of perspectives on these and other lessons learned, with essays on the science, politics, and ethics of the Ebola outbreak.