TY  - BOOK
TI  - Pandemics
T2  - World Book's library of natural disasters
SN  - 9780716699385
AV  - RA 653.5  .P192 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Chicago, IL
PB  - World Book, Inc.
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Communicable diseases
N1  - 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
N2  - "A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
ER  -