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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine as well as field research in Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe,...
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years. Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler...
6) Nowhere wild
Author
Series
Nowhere volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a flu pandemic turns the world upside down, teenagers Izzy and Jake flee to the wilderness where they must try to survive in order to save themselves, and each other.
7) 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.
8) Pandemic
Author
Series
Extinction files volume 1
Publisher
Riddle, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Africa, a mysterious outbreak spreads quickly. Teams from the CDC and WHO respond, but they soon learn that there is more to the epidemic than they believed. It may be the beginning of a global experiment--an event that will change the human race forever.
Author
Series
Belles of Timber Creek volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stranded in a flooded town overcome by a violent disease, teacher Audrey Pride helps to care for the sick while realizing her growing attraction to a widower in spite of his continuing bitterness over the death of his wife.
10) Surviving ebola
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. Surviving Ebola includes chilling firsthand interviews of what it's like to catch and survive this terrible affliction.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What causes mental illness? We've long blamed stress, trauma, and brain-chemistry imbalances. But a new theory is quietly achieving critical mass. In INFECTIOUS MADNESS, award-winning science writer Harriet Washington reveals that schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's, and anorexia also may be caused by bacteria, parasites, or viruses. Weaving together cutting-edge research and case studies, INFECTIOUS MADNESS shows how strep throat...
12) Phase six
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. 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...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A humorous book about history's worst plagues from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio and the heroes who fought them In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded...
Author
Publisher
Welbeck Children's Books Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
COVID-19 took everyone in the world by surprise. I mean, what exactly is it? How does it spread? What is a virus and are there others out there that we don't know about? Paul Ian Cross answers these questions, and more in this illustrated book filled with facts about what we know and don't know.
19) The kissing bug: a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernandez believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernandez dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the kissing bug disease--is more prevalent in the United States...
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Ayudantes en COVID-19 brinda una explicación objetiva pero optimista de la pandemia de coronavirus. Este cuento asegura a los chicos que muchas personas, incluyendo niños, están ayudando a combatir el virus que se diseminó por el mundo en 2020"--
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