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050 4 _aRA650.5
_bH665 2019
100 1 _aHonigsbaum, Mark,
245 1 4 _aThe pandemic century :
_bone hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris /
_cMark Honigsbaum.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Company,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a450 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
336 _astill image
_bsti
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 375-419) and index.
505 0 _aSharks and other predators -- The blue death -- Plague in the City of Angels -- The great parrot fever pandemic -- The "Philly killer" -- Legionnaires' redux -- AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa -- SARS: "super spreader"-- Ebola at the borders -- Z is for Zika -- Epilogue: The pandemic century.
520 _aChronicles the last century of scientific struggle against deadly contagious disease--from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic to the recent SARS, Ebola and Zika epidemics--examining related epidemiological mysteries and the role of disease in exacerbating world conflicts.
650 0 _aEpidemics
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCommunicable diseases
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 1 2 _aPandemics
_xhistory.
650 2 2 _aHistory, 20th Century.
650 2 2 _aHistory, 21st Century.
999 _c505702
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