Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond

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Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond

Title remainder

tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond

Statement of responsibility

Sonia Shah

Creator

• trueShah, Sonia

Author

• trueShah, Sonia

Subject

• Public health surveillance
• trueEpidemics
• trueScience Writing -- Medicine and health | Illness and disease
• trueSociety and culture -- Illness and disease | Epidemics
• trueScience Writing -- Medicine | Illness and Disease
• truePublic health
• Nonfiction
• trueCholera

Genre

• trueScience Writing
• trueSociety and culture

Language

eng

Summary

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

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueImpassioned

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult