Lassa fever: The politics of an emerging disease and the scope for One Health
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, Annie | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Sierra Leone | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-10T13:40:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-10T13:40:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wilkinson, A. (2015) Lassa fever: The politics of an emerging disease and the scope for One Health, STEPS Working Paper 83: STEPS Centre | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781781182246 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/6703 | |
dc.description | One of a series of seven working papers considering the political economy of One Health. | en |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the politics of knowledge and disease control for Lassa fever, a zoonotic viral haemorrhagic fever which is endemic in parts of West Africa. The Lassa virus has been classified as a Category A pathogen, meaning it is considered to be one of the world’s most dangerous organisms and a potential bioweapon. Unusually for a Category A pathogen it also causes endemic human disease with public health implications. As a rodent-borne virus, Lassa fever is of interest to One Health. The interplay between security, public health and One Health perspectives are explored in Kenema, Sierra Leone, a long-term treatment and research hub. Running through policy processes are institutionalised responses to uncertainty which have privileged certain types of evidence leading to significant gains in laboratory and technology-based interventions. In securitisation debates public health priorities are often judged to be undermined. However this case shows that animal, human and environment interactions, and their socio-economic dynamics, have been marginalised on both national and international levels by political economies of knowledge and policy which tend to overlook the needs and perspectives of poor and rural populations. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | STEPS Centre | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | STEPS Working Paper;83 | |
dc.rights | Users are welcome to copy, distribute, display, translate or perform this work without written permission subject to the conditions set out in the Creative Commons licence. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work. If you use the work, we ask that you reference the STEPS Centre website (www.steps-centre.org) and send a copy of the work or a link to its use online to the following address for our archive: STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK (steps-centre@ids.ac.uk). | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Health | en |
dc.title | Lassa fever: The politics of an emerging disease and the scope for One Health | en |
dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | en |
dc.rights.holder | STEPS Centre | en |
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