Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738180892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738180892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Flu
Author: Tom QuinnPublisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1780091060
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
It sounds innocuous compared to war, plague and famine, but flu is actually one of the world's biggest killers. Since the first documented pandemic of an influenza-like disease in 1580, 31 worldwide influenza outbreaks have been recorded, culminating in the pandemic of 1918 that killed an estimated 50 million.This fascinating book explores the havoc caused by the world's most deadly virus - and the destruction left behind in its wake. From its initial identification by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the 4th century BC to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the author explores the social, medical and scientific ramifications of the major outbreaks that have occurred over the centuries - and the potential ramifications should such a pandemic occur in the modern world.The likelihood and consequences of a pandemic occurring in the event of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu jumping species is also explored, along with recent scientific attempts to alter the structure of the virus in order to destroy it or ameliorate its virulence.
Pandemic Influenza, 1700-1900
Author: Karl David PattersonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Authors and Subjects
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
The Pandemic Century
Author: Mark HonigsbaumPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787382648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Like sharks, epidemic diseases always lurk just beneath the surface. This fast-paced history of their effect on mankind prompts questions about the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of medical hubris, and how we should prepare as epidemics become ever more frequent. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behaviour and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.
A plain discourse on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure of the prevailing epidemical disease termed Influenza
Author: John HERDMAN (Member of the Medical Society Edinburgh.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description