A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak

• Main Author: Bullard, Stephan Gregory (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Infectious diseases.; Medicine-History.; Medicine .; Health.; Infectious Diseases.; History of Medicine.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

This powerful history describes the daily progression of the Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa and struck Europe and America from December 2013 to June 2016. A case study on a massive scale, it follows the narratives of numerous patients as well as the journey of physicians and scientists...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• History of Ebola
• Clinical Features of Ebola
• Phase I: Initial Outbreak Period (December 2013 - May 14, 2014)
• Phase II: Major Outbreak Period (May 15, 2014 - March 5, 2015).-Phase III: Lingering Outbreak Period (March 6, 2015 - Jan 14, 2016)
• Outbreak Conclusion & Summary
• Appendixes.