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Paul Richards And Esther Mokuwa On Lessons Learned During The Ebola Epidemic
Category: Government & Organizations
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Publish Date: 2018-03-16 13:18:13
Description: When the Ebola virus spread rapidly throughout parts of West Africa in 2014, epidemiologists faced the challenge of containing a disease they knew little about. But their biggest blind spots were cultural and historical realities in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia that should have been taken into account during the crisis. That’s according to anthropologist Paul Richards, who wrote about the topic in his recent book, “Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic.”
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