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
| 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
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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