Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook

A Reference Handbook

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Ailments & Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art History, American
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Author: Michael C. LeMay ISBN: 9781440842832
Publisher: ABC-CLIO Publication: August 29, 2016
Imprint: ABC-CLIO Language: English
Author: Michael C. LeMay
ISBN: 9781440842832
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Publication: August 29, 2016
Imprint: ABC-CLIO
Language: English

This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine.

• Provides readers an understanding and appreciation of the extent of the devastation of pandemic diseases of the past centuries

• Shows how the pioneers of modern medicine conquered contagious diseases of the past that had been scourges in human history

• Documents and explains the development of newly emerging viral diseases that have the potential of becoming pandemic outbreaks that kill millions

• Employs primary documents ranging from data from reports from the CDC and WHO to firsthand accounts of past pandemics and their deadly impact

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This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine.

• Provides readers an understanding and appreciation of the extent of the devastation of pandemic diseases of the past centuries

• Shows how the pioneers of modern medicine conquered contagious diseases of the past that had been scourges in human history

• Documents and explains the development of newly emerging viral diseases that have the potential of becoming pandemic outbreaks that kill millions

• Employs primary documents ranging from data from reports from the CDC and WHO to firsthand accounts of past pandemics and their deadly impact

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