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_cDLC
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050 0 0 _aRA 653.5
_b.P192 2018
245 0 0 _aPandemics.
250 _a3rd edition.
260 _aChicago, IL :
_bWorld Book, Inc.,
_c[2018]
263 _a1801
264 1 _aChicago, IL :
_bWorld Book, Inc.,
_c[2018]
300 _a56 pages :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_c28 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aWorld Book's library of natural disasters
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aWhat 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.
520 _a"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aEpidemics
_vJuvenile literature.
_916999
650 0 _aCommunicable diseases
_vJuvenile literature.
_917000
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_cREF