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001 2015010246
003 DLC
005 20150417091451.0
008 150413s2016 nyu 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015010246
020 $a9780374122881 (hardback)
020 $z9780374708740 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRA643$b.S52 2016
082 00 $a362.1$223
084 $aSOC057000$aSCI036000$aMED022090$2bisacsh
100 1 $aShah, Sonia.
245 10 $aPandemic :$btracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond /$cSonia Shah.
263 $a1511
264 1 $aNew York :$bSarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux ,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like-and what we can do to prevent it"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xEpidemiology$xHistory.
650 0 $aPublic health surveillance.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aMEDICAL / Infectious Diseases.$2bisacsh