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Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond

text Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond

Shah, Sonia.

Summary
"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one o... Read more
Contents
Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : ... Read more
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Description
viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 362.1 SHA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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