PDF/ePub Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond Writen By Sonia Shah

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

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A thrilling glimpse into the next likely global contagion---and how to stop it. Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory. Experts around the world are bracing for a deadly, disruptive pandemic.In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah reveals how that could happen, by drawing parallels between cholera---one of history?s most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens---and the new diseases that stalk us today. As Shah traces each stage of cholera?s dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, she reports on the pathogens that have followed 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 true story that is both gripping and

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Author : Sonia Shah

Pages : 288 pages

Publisher : Picador

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 125011800X

ISBN-13 : 9781250118004

 
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