Pennsylvania Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History

Pennsylvania Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History
Title Pennsylvania Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History PDF eBook
Author Carole Marsh
Publisher Carole Marsh Books
Pages 73
Release 1998-09
Genre
ISBN 0793389429

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Pennsylvania Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History

Pennsylvania Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History
Title Pennsylvania Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History PDF eBook
Author Carole Marsh
Publisher Carole Marsh Books
Pages 71
Release 1998-09
Genre
ISBN 0793389437

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New York Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, & Epidemics in Our State's History

New York Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, & Epidemics in Our State's History
Title New York Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, & Epidemics in Our State's History PDF eBook
Author Carole Marsh
Publisher Carole Marsh Books
Pages 72
Release 1998-09
Genre
ISBN 0793389259

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District of Columbia Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History

District of Columbia Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History
Title District of Columbia Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History PDF eBook
Author Carole Marsh
Publisher
Pages
Release 1998-09
Genre
ISBN 9780793388523

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The Threat of Pandemic Influenza

The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
Title The Threat of Pandemic Influenza PDF eBook
Author Institute of Medicine
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 431
Release 2005-04-09
Genre Medical
ISBN 0309095042

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Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.

Flu

Flu
Title Flu PDF eBook
Author Gina Kolata
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 378
Release 2011-04-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1429979356

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Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.

Subject Guide to Books in Print

Subject Guide to Books in Print
Title Subject Guide to Books in Print PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 3054
Release 2001
Genre American literature
ISBN

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