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Author Honigsbaum, Mark, author.

Title The pandemic century : one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris / Mark Honigsbaum.

Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2020.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  614.49 Hon    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages black and white photos: illustrations ; 21. cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sharks and other predators -- The blue death -- Plague in the City of Angels -- The great parrot fever pandemic -- The "Philly killer" -- Legionnaires' redux -- AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa -- SARS: "super spreader"-- Ebola at the borders -- Z is for Zika -- Epilogue: The pandemic century.
Subject Epidemics -- History -- 20th century.
Communicable diseases -- History -- 20th century.
Pandemics -- history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
MEDICAL / Public Health.
Communicable diseases. (OCoLC)fst00869883
Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Epidemics -- History.
ISBN 9780393541311

 
    
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