Contagious category: 114 books
Bird Flu
Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker
"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal'...
Ebola Pandemic
Current Facts For Preparing & Surviving The Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book goes right to the questions and topics everyone is asking and talking about. Like, What Is Ebola? Ebola Symptoms & Diagnosis, How to Survive Ebola? How Is It Transmitted? These topics and more are addressed in this new book by Steve Jones.
The Remedy
Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.
In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB—often called...
The World's Deadliest Epidemics
101 Amazing Facts
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
For as long as humans have lived on this earth, nature has done its very best to rid the planet of us. This book not only looks back at a number of times in recorded history where the future of our very existence was put in jeopardy, but also asks whether we could survive a resurgence of these pandemics…...
Inside the Outbreaks
The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The “fascinating” story of the CDC’s intrepid investigators, who travel the world to protect us from deadly pathogens (Chicago Tribune).
Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. When an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there...
The Fatal Strain
On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian flu broke out in Asia in 2003 and raced westward, Sipress, as a reporter for The Washington Post, tracked the virus...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Scarlet fever has afflicted mankind since the 1500s. In the United States it appeared in epidemic proportion in New England in the early 18th century. In Boston and New Hampshire whole families became sickened, and sometimes most of their members died. Scarlet fever affects the kidneys and ear membranes...
by Williams Michael Manja
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book contains the required information for the understanding and tackling the problem of the Ebola virus disease. The book goes deep in to identifying the evolution, history, causes, transmission, signs, symptoms, and treatment of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). What is more captivating is the...
Swine Flu
The New Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Contents
Introduction
Pandemic Basics
1918 versus 1976
The Swine Flu Timeline
All You Need to Know
Bibliography
Index
Ebola
How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018
From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted...
by Charles Spender
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
This text describes water treatments of influenza, such as the adapted cold shower, head shower, and nasal washings. The proposed techniques reduce pain, fever, weakness, nasal congestion, and the duration of illness. The biological mechanisms are also explained.
Dread
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.
As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts...
by Marnie Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The latest Ebola outbreak is the worst in history. What happens if the infection is spread further into the U.S.?
Although officials clam a worldwide pandemic is unlikely, maybe that is not a risk you should be willing to take.
Don't just sit idly and regret it when the stakes are raised....
On the Trail of Ebola
my life as a virus hunter
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
'Just give me a few viruses.' When young researcher Guido van der Groen went to his boss with that request in 1976, it marked the start of an improbable career as a virus hunter. A cheap thermos flask containing blood samples from a deceased Belgian missionary in Zaïre put him on the trail of a 'humdinger'...