Presents the history of many infections, infestations, and diseases, what's being done to stop them, and what you can do to stay healthy.

"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--

True stories of the pioneers of epidemiology who risked their lives to find the source of deadly diseases--now revised to include updated information and a new chapter on Covid-19.

¿Qué son los virus? ¿Cómo se originaron? ¿Cómo es la vida de un virus dentro de una célula? ¿Cómo aparecen los nuevos virus de la gripe? ¿Por qué es tan difícil curar el sida? ¿El ébola acabará siendo una pandemia? ¿Cómo influyeron los virus en la construcción del canal de Panamá o en la conquista de América? ¿Qué son los arbovirus? ¿Se puede «revivir» un virus congelado en el permafrost? ¿El bioterrorismo es solo una fantasía...

"In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient. While he shoulders...

Looks at the history of infectious disease, covering plagues around the world and how germ theory changed the way sick people were treated.

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.

Making Peace with Microbes Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. Good Germs, Bad Germs addresses not only...

When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.

Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how? Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. While we can't...