The diffusion of cholera in Egypt, 1947: a time-space analysis of one of the largest single outbreaks in the twentieth century

The epidemic of cholera that spread through Egypt in the latter months of 1947 was one of the largest single outbreaks of the disease in the twentieth century. Using a swash–backwash model, this paper examines the geographical wave-like spread and subsequent retreat of the epidemic from an apparent...

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Main Authors: Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Cliffe, Andrew
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35558/