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Subject(s)

• Epidemics [Browse]
• Epidemics—Prevention [Browse]
• Diseases—Social aspects [Browse]
• Medicine, Preventive [Browse]

Series

Contemporary world issues [More in this series]

Summary note

"Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook provides all-encompassing coverage that introduces key concepts and traces the history of pandemics, enabling readers to grasp the complexity of the global problem and the difficulties of executing effective solutions. Written in an easy-to-understand manner, it provides a "go-to" resource that systematically addresses dozens of diseases of the past as well as re-emergent or newly emerging pathogens that have the potential of becoming pandemics. The book's extensive coverage of past pandemics includes bubonic plague, cholera, influenza, measles, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and yellow fever, and the re-emergence of malaria, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, and other contagious diseases. It discusses a broad range of newly emerging viral threats, such as AIDS/HIV, avian flu, anthrax, botulism, Ebola, E. coli, Gulf War syndrome, hanta virus, Lassa virus, Lyme disease, Marburg virus, MERS, MRSA, Ricin, Sin Nombre virus (SNV), and West Nile virus. The work offers perspectives from individuals interested and involved in the fight, including medical professionals and health care workers; profiles of key organizations and persons; a helpful timeline of past and present pandemic outbreaks; and a glossary of key terms and concepts"--Publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Background and history
• Problems, controversies, and solutions
• Perspectives
• Profiles
• Data and documents
• Resources
• Chronology.

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ISBN

• 9781440842825 ((alk. paper))
• 1440842825 ((alk. paper))

LCCN

2016016079

OCLC

946104096

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