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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 1-9

3. Initial Outbreak Period (December 2013–May 22, 2014)

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 11-21

4. Escalation (May 23, 2014–August 31, 2014)

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 23-79

5. The Peak in Africa (September 2014)

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 81-123

6. Global Spread (October 2014)

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 125-172

7. Beginning of the Decline (November–December 2014)

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 173-225

8. Simmering to the End (January 2015–June 2016)

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 227-310

9. Outbreak Data

   • Stephan Gregory Bullard

   Pages 311-326

10. Back Matter

    Pages 327-332

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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 from discovery to action and from tracking to containment. The unfolding story reveals ever-shifting complexities such as the varied paths the infection took from country to country, the multiple responses of community members, and the occurrence of flare-ups when the outbreak was seemingly over. The book’s finely-documented present-tense reporting records key facts, events, and observations, including:

•         Routes of Ebola transmission, incubation, symptoms, short- and long-term effects on survivors
  
•         Early attempts to understand and contain the virus and curb practices contributing to its spread
  
•         Medical, governmental, and public responses, from local education programs to global efforts
  
•         Communication and conflict between healthcare workers and communities
  
•          Social and economic outcomes of Ebola in the affected nations
  

Ebola remains incurable, although a vaccine is now available. For members of the medical community, public health officials, medical historians, scholarly professionals, and interested laypeople, A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak makes starkly clear what we can learn from these events not only for future outbreaks of Ebola, but also for the emergence of as-yet unknown diseases.

• ebola
• ebola outbreak
• ebola virus disease
• West African ebola
• epidemic
• pandemic
• infectious diseases
• emerging viruses
• zoonotic infection
• plague
• public health emergency
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• history of ebola
• epidemiology
• clinical features of ebola
• disease transmission
• public health response
• public health preparedness
• ebola case management

“Bullard’s book does contribute to the current discussion of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in that it is the most comprehensive timeline of how this global disaster was managed, both locally and by international responders. The inclusion of the World Health Organization’s cumulative case and death reporting is valuable for researchers making comparisons about how Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone each managed and eradicated this outbreak of the disease.” (Sabine Franklin, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, August, 2018)

• Hillyer College, University of Hartford, West Hartford, USA

  Stephan Gregory Bullard

 

Stephan Bullard is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He studies notable disasters. His previous books include The Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967 and Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima: Curse of the Nuclear Genie.

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