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Author : Dickson D. Despommier
Publisher : Apple Trees Productions
ISBN 13 : 9780970002716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book West Nile Story written by Dickson D. Despommier and published by Apple Trees Productions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Abramovitz
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420509365
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book West Nile Virus written by Melissa Abramovitz and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new cases of West Nile Virus begin to appear across the United States, this book offers a timely discussion of this potentially devastating disease. Author Melissa Abramovitz outlines the mechanics of virus transmission and how mosquitoes and disease-carrying birds have played a key role in the West Nile Virus epidemic. This book covers basic information about the virus and its possible effects, as well as a discussion of personal and governmental prevention plans. The last chapter focuses on treatments currently in development.
Author : Kathlenn Gibson
Publisher : BPS Books
ISBN 13 : 1926645014
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)
Download or read book West Nile Diary written by Kathlenn Gibson and published by BPS Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibson recounts how she and her husband, an active pastor, battled his West Nile disease armed with Scripture, prayer, love, humor, and determination.
Author : Emily Smucker
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0757314147
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Emily written by Emily Smucker and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily's the sick one . . . all of the time. Plagued with some sort of cold or fever or bizarre aches and pains for much of her life, Emily thought the dizziness and stomachaches at the start of her senior year were just another bout of "Emily flu." But when they didn't go away, she knew something was seriously wrong. Eventually diagnosed with the rare and incurable West Nile virus, Emily watched her senior year and the future she had planned for go up in smoke. "I want a normal life for a teenager. I want to ache from a long day at work. I want to be so busy that I don't have time to post on my blog. I want to run the race of life instead of being pushed along it in a wheelchair. I want to be on the ride of my life, you know?" Because Truth Is More Fascinating Than Fiction
Author : Michael C. Carroll
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061842893
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Lab 257 written by Michael C. Carroll and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore. Based on declassified government documents, in-depth interviews, and access to Plum Island itself, this is an eye-opening, suspenseful account of a federal government germ laboratory gone terribly wrong. For the first time, Lab 257 takes you deep inside this secret world and presents startling revelations on virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns, infected workers, the periodic flushing of contaminated raw sewage into area waters, and the insidious connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease, and the deadly West Nile virus. The book also probes what's in store for Plum Island's new owner, the Department of Homeland Security, in this age of bioterrorism. Lab 257 is a call to action for those concerned with protecting present and future generations from preventable biological catastrophes.
Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743437
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Mosquito written by Timothy C. Winegard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village. Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
Author : Elinor Levy
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 1400052750
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Killer Diseases written by Elinor Levy and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned immunologist alerts readers to the growing threat of mutant germs that are everywhere and seem to be building resistance to traditional medicines and the lack of new antibiotics and drugs to treat these emerging diseases. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Thomas J. O'Brien
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780738837581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)
Download or read book West Nile written by Thomas J. O'Brien and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1999, an epidemic of a mysterious brain disease smashed into New York City and severely affected over 60 people. Seven of its victims died. The virus at the centre of this firestorm, known as the West Nile Virus, had not previously been seen in the Americas, its trans-Atlantic leap continues to puzzle scientists. West Nile virus, the agent itself being a Flavivirus, is widespread in Africa - first isolated in Uganda - and has been known to invade Europe. The first serious epidemic outside of Africa occurred in Romania in 1996. In August of 1999, just before people began dying, crows in New York City fell from the sky in large numbers. This apocalyptic event ushered in a new era of public health alarm - the crows became sentinels for the first wave of West Nile infection, and now, the virus is carried in over 20 species of birds and the virus has spread from New York. The appearance of the West Nile Virus in New York is considered by epidemiologists to be a water-shed event. There is no cure or vaccine for the disease. Thus the answers as to why it suddenly occurred in the Americas is a subject of intense debate. However, an unexplored tenable theory rests within massive global trade in exotic birds, many of them coming to the Americas from parts of the world where the West Nile virus occurs; many of the birds come to the Americas illegally and are not assessed for biocontaminants. This then, is a story about the appearance of the West Nile Virus in the United States.
Author : David Quammen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066800
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic written by David Quammen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.
Author : Scholastique Mukasonga
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671049
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Our Lady of the Nile written by Scholastique Mukasonga and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga’s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents’ preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country’s mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, prejudice, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling towards horror.
Author : Andrew Spielman
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786886678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Mosquito written by Andrew Spielman and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback -- a fascinating work of popular science from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter. In this lively and comprehensive portrait of the mosquito, its role in history, and its threat to mankind, Spielman and D'Antonio take a mosquito's-eye view of nature and man. They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die, and introduce us to their enemies, both natural and man-made. The authors present tragic and often grotesque examples of how the mosquito has insinuated itself into human history, from the malaria that devastated invaders of ancient Rome to the current widespread West Nile fever panic. Filled with little-known facts and remarkable anecdotes that bring this tiny being into larger focus, Mosquito offers fascinating, alarming, and convincing evidence that the sooner we get to know this pesky insect, the better off we'll be.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book West Nile Virus Outbreak written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292150
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—Booklist Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Then came more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, such as the West Nile virus. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the third world, including malaria and African sleeping sickness, festered—their victims salvageable only by unaffordable, patent-protected drugs. Robert S. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues we must confront—the morality and legality of patent laws, the effect of global warming on epidemics, public support for the commercial biochemical industry, the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals, and the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism.
Author : Jeremy H. Lipschultz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135657114
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Crime and Local Television News written by Jeremy H. Lipschultz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the theory and practice of local TV news, considering the coverage of crime, for students in journalism, mass comm, media and society, and other areas.
Author : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moses written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610918444
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Lyme written by Mary Beth Pfeiffer and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superbly written and researched." --Booklist "Builds a strong case." --Kirkus Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. Mary Beth Pfeiffer argues it is the first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, infecting millions around the globe. She tells the heart-rending stories of its victims, families whose lives have been destroyed by a single, often unseen, tick bite. Pfeiffer also warns of the emergence of other tick-borne illnesses that make Lyme more difficult to treat and pose their own grave risks. Lyme is an impeccably researched account of an enigmatic disease, making a powerful case for action to fight ticks, heal patients, and recognize humanity's role in a modern scourge.
Author : Jeffrey Ryan
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0128020571
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Biosecurity and Bioterrorism written by Jeffrey Ryan and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Second Edition, takes a holistic approach to biosecurity, with coverage of pathogens, prevention, and response methodology. It addresses these hazards in the context of vulnerability assessments and the planning strategies government and industry can use to prepare for and respond to such events. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Part I provides a conceptual understanding of biowarfare, bioterrorism and the laws we have to counteract this; Part II investigates known bioagents and the threat from emerging diseases; Part III focuses on agricultural terrorism and food security; and Part IV outlines international, US, and local initiatives for biodefense and biosecurity. Case studies illustrate biodefense against both intentional terrorism and natural outbreaks. Covers emerging threats of pandemic influenza, antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial pathogens, and severe respiratory diseases caused by novel viruses Offers increased international coverage, including initiatives to counter biological weapons and threats, and food security Updated throughout with latest protocols for dealing with biological threats and new case studies Includes online instructor ancillaries - PowerPoint lecture slides, test questions, and an instructor manual, for increased classroom functionality
