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Author: John Vidal Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1526632195 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 353
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A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies 'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT 'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHES Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics – one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health. Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever. Drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from more than 100 countries, former Guardian environment editor John Vidal takes us into deep, disappearing forests in Gabon and the Congo, valleys scorched by wildfire near Lake Tahoe and our densest, polluted cities to show how closely human, animal and plant diseases are now intertwined with planetary destruction. He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world, and expertly outlines how to make that change possible.
Author: John Vidal Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1526632195 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies 'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT 'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHES Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics – one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health. Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever. Drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from more than 100 countries, former Guardian environment editor John Vidal takes us into deep, disappearing forests in Gabon and the Congo, valleys scorched by wildfire near Lake Tahoe and our densest, polluted cities to show how closely human, animal and plant diseases are now intertwined with planetary destruction. He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world, and expertly outlines how to make that change possible.
Author: King K. Holmes Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 1464805253 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1027
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Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.
Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190628634 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 705
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THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad.
Author: Christopher Hamlin Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421415038 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 398
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A conceptual and cultural history of fever, a universally experienced and sometimes feared symptom. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medical scientists to classify it, and with fever’s changing social, cultural, and political significance. Long before there were thermometers to measure it, people recognized fever as a dangerous, if transitory, state of being. It was the most familiar form of alienation from the normal self, a concern to communities and states as well as to patients, families, and healers. The earliest medical writers struggled for a conceptual vocabulary to explain fever. During the Enlightenment, the idea of fever became a means to acknowledge the biological experiences that united humans. A century later, in the age of imperialism, it would become a key element of conquest, both an important way of differentiating places and races, and of imposing global expectations of health. Ultimately the concept would split: "fevers" were dangerous and often exotic epidemic diseases, while “fever” remained a curious physiological state, certainly distressing but usually benign. By the end of the twentieth century, that divergence divided the world between a global South profoundly affected by fevers—chiefly malaria—and a North where fever, now merely a symptom, was so medically trivial as to be transformed into a familiar motif of popular culture. A senior historian of science and medicine, Hamlin shares stories from individuals—some eminent, many forgotten—who exemplify aspects of fever: reflections of the fevered, for whom fevers, and especially the vivid hallucinations of delirium, were sometimes transformative; of those who cared for them (nurses and, often, mothers); and of those who sought to explain deadly epidemic outbreaks. Significant also are the arguments of the reformers, for whom fever stood as a proxy for manifold forms of injustice. Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin’s study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often also our ability to survive.
Author: Godfree Roberts Ed.D. Publisher: Thailand Retirement Press ISBN: 1634437500 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 109
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In 114 pages 'Dealing with Dengue' covers every aspect of Dengue Fever. Here are the chapter titles: 1. What not to Do... 2. What is Dengue? 3. Diagnosing Dengue 5.Folk Remedies 6. Children & Dengue 7. Pregnancy & Dengue 8. Severe Dengue 9. Painkillers & Your Liver 10. Recovery & TCM 11. Doctors & Drugs 12. Immunity 13. Lab Tests 14. Somebody Stop Me! 15. Call Me Aedes 16. 99% Prevention 17. Insecticides & Repellents 18. Traps, Nets, Coils & More 19. Case Studies 20. Transmission 21. Vaccines, Bacteria & GMOs 22. Regular Mosquito Bites 23. Your Community 24. Blogs, Links, Downloads 25. Myths & Rumors 26. Videos 27. Dengue for MDs See what I mean? It's everything you need to know about Dengue.
Author: Melanie Lenart Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816570000 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 249
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In this insightful, compelling, and highly readable work, Melanie Lenart, an award-winning journalist and science writer who holds a PhD in Natural Resources and Global Change, examines global warming with the trained eye of a professional scientist. And she presents the science in a clear, straightforward manner. Why does the planet’s warming produce stronger hurricanes, rising seas, and larger floods? Simple, says Lenart. The Earth is just doing what comes naturally. Just as humans produce sweat to cool off on a hot day, the planet produces hurricanes, floods, wetlands, and forests to cool itself off. Life in the Hothouse incorporates Lenart’s extensive knowledge of climate science—including the latest research in climate change—and the most current scientific theories, including Gaia theory, which holds that the Earth has some degree of climate control “built in.” As Lenart points out, scientists have been documenting stronger hurricanes and larger floods for many years. There is a good reason for this, she notes. Hurricanes help cool the ocean surface and clear the air of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. From the perspective of Gaia theory, these responses are helping to slow the ongoing global warming and Lenart expounds upon this in a clear and understandable fashion. There is hope, Lenart writes. If we help sustain Earth's natural defense systems, including wetlands and forests, perhaps Mother Earth will no longer need to rely as much on the cooling effects of what we call "natural disasters"—many of which carry a human fingerprint. At a minimum, she argues, these systems can help us survive the heat.
Author: Yash Karan Sharma Publisher: All India Federation of Astrologers' Societies ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 303
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Objective of Astrology is to give accurate predictions about future but its utility lies in the correct and effective solutions to our problems. Astrology is highly beneficial because with the help of this knowledge we come to know about our future and forth coming good or bad events. Rightly has some body affirmed, “To be forewarned is to be forearmed”. When we know it in advance that something negative is likely to happen to us we prepare ourselves to face that or avert that by equipping ourselves with necessary tools and weapons for our protection. Here in this book of AIFAS the readers are informed with all the remedial measures and spiritual products. These spiritual products are also known as astrological Products or remedial Products. These products are not very easily available in the market but organizations like Future Point Pvt. Ltd. is catering to these requirements as it has been quite up to the mark in removing the cob webs from the minds of the people in general by providing adequate information, expertise and genuine spiritual products. ‘Encyclopedia of Astrological Remedies’ is a consolidated effort to combine the various types of remedial measures available in Vedic Astrology, vedas, mythology, mantra shastra, Lal Kitab, gemology, science of yantras and other reliable sources of our cultural heritage which include the uses of gems, rudraksha, yantras, rosaries, crystals, rudraksha kavach, parad, rings, conch, pyramids, coins, lockets, fengshui, remedial bags, colors, talismans, fasting and meditation with mantras
Author: Tilak Raj Publisher: All India Federation of Astrologers' Societies ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 73
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Very often it is asked as to what is the use of astrology? Can the malefic result of planets be glozed? Suppose a man starts from home with an umbrella if he knows that it will rain today. He cannot prevent the rain but he can save himself to some extent with the umbrella. Likewise, we try to lessen the malefic effect of the harmful planets by Tantra, Mantra, Yantras, gems, worship or Jap if we know by Astrology that the period ahead is not auspicious. Different methods of remedies have been mentioned in this book. Learned astrologers prescribe various remedies to curb evil effects of planets. Some scholars advise to wear gems while others prescribe mantras. There are scholars who stress on Yantra-pooja or wearing Rudraksha. Some of them go for propitiating planets or for that matter tantrik remedies. This book explains that one should seek remedies for which planets and what type of remedies should be prescribed. Lal Kitab remedies have also been discussed in this book. One form of remedy can be to worship the planets by chanting their mantras. Recommendation of establishing Navgrah yantras is also very popular. The objective of establishing important yantras is also mentioned in this book. Those who do not know the mantras of planets they can learn the important mantra of concerned from this book. If a planet is strongly placed in ones chart in that case the benefic effects of that planet can be multiplied by wearing its gem. This books also helps in selecting the appropriate gem for the native. Method of wearing gem has also been explained. This book in one of its chapters talks about the use of rare tantric items. In next chapter one can read about the healing touch of Rudraksha. In chapter no. 8 and 9 the remedies for the rectification of malefic influence of sadhesati and Kalsarpayoga are discussed. In concluding chapters the contemplation of God and worship of deities related to planets is discussed.
Author: John Vidal
Author: John Vidal
Author: King K. Holmes
Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
Author: Christopher Hamlin
Author: Godfree Roberts Ed.D.
Author: Viktorija Briggs
Author: Melanie Lenart
Author: Madeline Drexler
Author: Yash Karan Sharma
Author: Tilak Raj