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Pandemics.

Material type: TextTextSeries: World Book's library of natural disastersPublisher: Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]Edition: 3rd editionDescription: 56 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780716699385
  • 9780716699286 (set)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA 653.5  .P192 2018
Contents:
What is a pandemic? -- What causes infectious diseases? -- How do microorganisms multiply and survive? -- How do infectious diseases spread? -- How do microorganisms affect human beings? -- Why do pandemics occur? -- Population changes and pandemics -- The course of a pandemic -- The Black Death -- Cholera pandemics -- Stages of a pandemic -- Pandemic! -- The influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 -- HIV and AIDS -- Preventing a pandemic -- SARS -- Avian influenza -- Swine flu -- Ebola, the next pandemic? -- Zika.
Summary: "A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

What is a pandemic? -- What causes infectious diseases? -- How do microorganisms multiply and survive? -- How do infectious diseases spread? -- How do microorganisms affect human beings? -- Why do pandemics occur? -- Population changes and pandemics -- The course of a pandemic -- The Black Death -- Cholera pandemics -- Stages of a pandemic -- Pandemic! -- The influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 -- HIV and AIDS -- Preventing a pandemic -- SARS -- Avian influenza -- Swine flu -- Ebola, the next pandemic? -- Zika.

"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"-- Provided by publisher.

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