Global Pandemic Threats

Lemay, Michael

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Lemay, Michael

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9781440842825

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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.

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.

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Produktinformasjon

ISBN/Varenr: 9781440842825
Utgivelsesdato: 29.08.2016
Utgivelsesår: 2016
Forlag: ABC-CLIO
Innbinding: Innbundet
Serie: Contemporary World Issues (Hardcover)
Språk: Engelsk
Personer: Lemay, Michael
Litteraturtype: Faglitteratur
Emne: Medical / Nursing
Målgruppe: Voksne
Aldersgrense: 0
Opplag: 0
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Illustrert: Nei
Sider: 392