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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (20 entries) : 205 images ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-387). |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- 1. The beginning of the end -- 2. Early medicine -- 3. The Black Death -- 4. The plagues of London -- 5. Plagues of Africa and the tropics -- 6. Smallpox in the New World -- 7. Sexually transmitted infections -- 8. Addiction -- 9. Do-or-die battles -- 10. The 1918 flu -- 11. Coronaviruses -- 12. Living with pathogens -- Further reading. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
"From the plague of Athens to the Covid-19 pandemic, Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics as well as several modern diseases of note and those that are making a comeback"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 is an enlightening, and sometimes frightening, recounting of the destruction wrought by disease, but it also looks at what man has done and can do to overcome even the deadliest and bleakest of contagions. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases.
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Emerging infectious diseases.
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Epidemics.
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Pathogenic microorganisms.
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Epidemics |
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Communicable Diseases |
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1578597048 9781578597048 (DLC) 2020038897 xvii, 397 pages : illustrations |
| ISBN |
9781787859852 electronic version |
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9781578597048 paperback |
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1578597048 paperback |
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9781578597369 epub |
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1578597390 |
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9781578597390 |
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