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Ebola : the natural and human history of a deadly virus / David Quammen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quammen, David, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ebola virus disease--Popular works.
- Ebola virus disease.
- Epidemics--History--Popular works.
- Epidemics.
- Ebolavirus--pathogenicity.
- History.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Disease Reservoirs.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Ebolavirus--pathogenicity.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Disease Reservoirs.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- Summary:
- Acclaimed science writer and explorer David Quammen first came near the Ebola virus while he was traveling in the jungles of Gabon, accompanied by local men whose village had been devastated by a recent outbreak. Here he tells the story of Ebola -- its past, present, and its unknowable future.
- Notes:
- Extracted, with updated and additional material, from: Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic / David Quammen. c2012.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-119).
- ISBN:
- 9780393351552
- 0393351556
- OCLC:
- 891494844
- Publisher Number:
- 99969056255
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