Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095042
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.
Agricultural Appropriation Bill for 1947, Hearings Before ... 79-2, on H.R. 5605
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Battles of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons, 23-25 August 1942
Author: Winston B. LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Flu
Author: Gina KolataPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429979356
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
Extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, Hearings Before ..., 78-2 on S.1764 ..., March 15 ... April 28, 1944
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
Book Description
The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine
Author: Eric C. SteinhartPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131624041X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create 'living space', Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or behavioral grounds. It also pursued a parallel, albeit smaller, program to mobilize supposedly Germanic residents of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union - so-called Volksdeutsche or ethnic Germans - as the vanguard of German expansion. This study recovers the intersection of these two projects in Transnistria, a portion of southern Ukraine that, because of its numerous Volksdeutsche communities, became an epicenter of both Nazi Volksdeutsche policy and the Holocaust in conquered Soviet territory, ultimately asking why local residents, whom German authorities identified as Volksdeutsche, participated in the Holocaust with apparent enthusiasm.
Extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Price regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
Book Description
Cross Channel Attack
Author: Gordon A. HarrisonPublisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
ISBN: 9780792458562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Discusses the Allied invasion of Normandy, with extensive details about the planning stage, called Operation Overlord, as well as the fighting on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
Extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Price regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 1634
Book Description
Navy Department Communiques
Author: United States. Navy DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description