More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and ninety 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. A deep-dive 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador USA
ISBN-13
9781250118004
eBay Product ID (ePID)
233981302
Product Key Features
Author
Sonia Shah
Publication Name
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
141mm
Item Weight
272g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sonia Shah
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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