Pandemics
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Pandemics
By Mary K. PrattMary K. Pratt. this incurable and fatal disease. People wondered whether it could be spread through casual encounters ... This issue came to the forefront in the United States when Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who had contracted AIDS ...
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Pandemics
"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
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Pandemics: World Book's Library of Natural Disasters
Pandemics: World Book's Library of Natural Disasters
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Pandemics
By Carol Ballard"A discussion of a major type of natural disaster, including descriptions of some of the most destructive; explanations of these phenomena, what causes them, and where they occur; and information about how to prepare for and survive these ...
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Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
By Peter C. DohertyPandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle.
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
By Christian W. McMillenMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Plague -- Chapter 2: Smallpox -- Chapter 3: Malaria -- Chapter 4: Cholera -- Chapter 5: Tuberculosis -- Chapter 6: Influenza -- Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS -- References -- Further ...
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Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection
By María del Carmen Boado-Penas, Julia Eisenberg, Şule ŞahinThis open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic.
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Pandemics: Epidemics in a Shrinking World
By Miriam SegallDiscusses pandemics that have occurred in the past, modern diseases that may become epidemics, and the techniques used by doctors to treat and prevent communicable diseases.
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
By Christian W. McMillenHowever, for an excellent introduction that covers all plague pandemics see Paul Slack, Plague: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Slack's volume in the Very Short Introduction series has an excellent ...
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Pandemics: The Invisible Enemy
Contains articles on the history of pandemics around the world, from the late Middle Ages and the Black Death to the twenty-first century and SARS, Zika and COVID-19.
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Pandemics: COVID-19 and Our World
By Jill KeppelerIn 2020, the illness called COVID-19 changed our world forever.
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
By Christian W. McMillenChristian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.
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Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
By Peter C. DohertyIn Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Peter Doherty demystifies the Hollywood version of global infections and considers instead what pandemics really are, what situations encourage their spread, and which pathogens pose the greatest ...
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Pandemics: The Basics
By Elisa PieriThis book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.