Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Title Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Names Shah, Sonia.
Book Number DBC16667
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Download Link Downloadable talking book.
Annotation 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 coronaviruses to drug-resistant superbugs. Adult.
Narrator Melancon, Corinne.
Local Subject Medicine - Diseases - 616
History - World - HISW
Andrew Heiskell Studio Recording - AHS
Audience Notes 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 coronaviruses to drug-resistant superbugs. Adult.
Local Subject Social problems - welfare & services - 362
Adult Non-Fiction - AN
Adult Book - AD
Medicine - MED
Health & Well-Being - HEALT
History (non-fiction) - HIST
LC Subject Communicable diseases - Epidemiology - History
Public health surveillance
Nonfiction
Call Number 362.1 ANF
Language English
Released 2017
Publication Info New York : Picador 2017
Original Publication Recorded from: 1st Picador edition. New York, NY : Picador, 2017. 9781250118004
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