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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with mankind’s earliest recorded history, infectious disease has taken the lives of more humans than all wars, famines and natural disasters combined—not by a narrow margin but by an overwhelming landslide. Before the birth of modern science, losses to these unseen enemies were routinely blamed on the collective sins of man and the wrath of angry gods. Over the course of centuries, man’s ongoing inability to comprehend the microbial...
Author
Publisher
ASM Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic-causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history. Author Irwin W. Sherman introduces the microbes that caused these epidemics and the people who sought (and still seek) to understand how diseases and epidemics are managed. What makes this book especially fascinating are the many threads that Sherman weaves together as he explains how plagues past and present have shaped the outcome...
Author
Series
Covert-One series volume 1
Publisher
Griffin/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic.
7) Pandemics
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases...
10) The legacy
Author
Series
Declaration trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
11) Cabin fever
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A group of people are trapped in the woods and methodically killed off by a horrifying flesh-eating virus.
14) Viral: a novel
Author
Series
Mallory brothers cycle volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a halt. In today's world, it's easier than ever to move people, animals, and materials around the planet, but the same advances that make modern infrastructure so efficient have made epidemics and even pandemics nearly inevitable. So what can -- and must -- we do in order to protect...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Nightmare bacteria." That's how the CDC describes a frightening new threat spreading quickly in hospitals, communities, and across the globe. FRONTLINE reporter David Hoffman investigates the alarming rise of untreatable infections: from a young girl thrust onto life support in an Arizona hospital, to a young American infected in India who comes home to Seattle, and an uncontrollable outbreak at the nation's most prestigious hospital, where eighteen...
18) Outbreak
Author
Language
English
Description
"When sea currents shift, the red algae along the West African coast vanishes and the mysterious deaths stop. Professor Theo Bishop and biological researcher Avery Madison know the danger hasn't passed but changed locations and headed toward America. But everywhere they turn, powerful interests are determined to silence all credible evidence of the impending biological disaster"--
19) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
20) Fall of night
Author
Series
Dead of night volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox. Children are sobbing as panicked teachers and neighbors beat down their family members outside of the school...or the things that used to be their family members. Parents don't eat their children do they? Officers Fox and Hammond, along with journalist Billy Trout, are calling it the beginning of the end. This is the zombie apocalypse. An insane escaped serial killer is...
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