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The Little Book of Pandemics: 50 of the World's Most Virulent Plagues and Infectious Diseases
by Peter Moore  Publisher Comments As the world waits once again to see if the latest virus will decimate the population, The Little Black of Pandemics looks at the greatest natural killers of all time. This concise and intelligent look at the most deadly viral and bacterial...
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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston Publisher Comments "Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek)....
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett 
Synopsis In this gripping, often harrowing study, Laurie Garrett takes readers on a 50-year journey through the world's battles with microbes, and examines the conditions that have culminated in recurrent outbreaks of newly discovered diseases, epidemics of...
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The Five-Second Rule and Other Myths about Germs: What Everyone Should Know about Bacteria, Viruses, Mold, and Mildew
by Anne E. Maczulak Publisher Comments They're everywhere! In water, food, air, and soil. On the kitchen counter and in the bathroom. On our skin, in our intestines, and even swimming in our mouths! They affect us every second of our lives, but most microbes are terribly misunderstood. The...
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Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
by Pamela Nagami Publisher Comments STARTLING TRUE CASES OF BITE ATTACKS, RESULTING INFECTIONS, AND ENSUING TREATMENTS--- From ticks, ants, and flying bats to elephant seals, Komodo dragons, rhesus macaques, and deadliest of all, humans. We’ve all been bitten. And we all have stories....
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The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans
by David Waltner-toews Publisher Comments Emerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, and avian flu are — for the moment, at least — far more prevalent in animals than in humans. Still, the knowledge that measles, TB, and smallpox were at one time “emerging” diseases that...
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When Every Moment Counts
by Bill Frist Synopsis Bioterrerism has quickly become one of the most pressing and disturbing issues of our time. Our nation's leaders warn that the threat of germ weapons by terrorists is real, and, more importantly, that the United States remains highly vulnerable. Such...
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Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
by Jessica Snyder Sachs Publisher Comments Making Peace with Microbes Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the...
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
by C J Peters Publisher Comments The commander of the army virology unit that battled Ebola in The Hot Zone -- and Chief of Special Pathogens at the Centers for Disease Control -- teams up with the bestselling coauthor of MindHunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career...
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
by Thomas Hager Publisher Comments The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager...
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New Killer Diseases : How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (03 Edition)
by Elinor Levy Publisher Comments The strange new disease SARS erupted apparently out of nowhere and has spread at an astonishing rate. Scary as SARS itself is, the disease is also a warning of many possible such outbreaks to come. Featuring the disturbing story of SARS—where it...
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Killer Germs: Microbes and Diseases That Threaten Humanity
by Barry E. Zimmerman Publisher Comments Discover the unseen assassins that plague humanity Until recently, most of us went about our daily lives with a false sense of public health security. Epidemics were a thing of the past, the AIDS crisis had diminished, and an annual vaccination kept the...
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Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio-Terror Catastrophe
by Michael T Osterholm Publisher Comments This book will tell you what that will mean when the inevitable happens, and what we as a nation can and must do now to protect ourselves, our families, and the basic elements of our society that bioterrorism puts at risk. You will also learn why the...
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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments A “brilliant” and “fascinating” investigation of the looming avian flu pandemic—and how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastrophe—The New York Times The virus known as H5N1 is now endemic among poultry and...
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Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery
by Robert Gallo Publisher Comments The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery....
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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Plague That Threatens Our Food
by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain...
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Antimicrobial Resistance: Issues and Options: Workshop Report
by Polly Harrison Synopsis Antibiotic resistance is neither a surprising nor a new phenomenon. It is an increasingly worrisome situation, however, because resistance is growing and accelerating while the world's tools for combating it decrease in power and number. In addition, the...
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Viruses Vs. Superbugs: A Solution to the Antibiotics Crisis?
by Thomas Häusler Publisher Comments In the US alone some 90,000 people die from superbugs; bacteria that have grown immune to antibiotics. Officials agree that this problem will only get worse with time and new alternatives must be found. One alternative that is being considered by...
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Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
by Robin Marantz Henig Publisher Comments Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
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Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu
by Betty Okeefe Synopsis To this day, more questions than answers surround the 1918 outbreak of a deadly flu pandemic that threatened to destroy the world. History has put death estimates as high as 50 million people worldwide. The American death toll from the flu was more than...
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