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Communicable diseases Epidemiology History Global environmental change Social aspects MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases Nature Nature Literary collections Public health surveillance Science SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology Science Literary collections SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health IssuesShah, Sonia.
Summary: Traces the centuries-long battle to treat and prevent malaria in numerous regions of the world while revealing how hundreds of millions of people are infected annually in spite of available preventions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 SHAShah, Sonia
Summary: "A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.809 SHAShah, 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 of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 SHASummary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Julia Rosen, Kashmir Hill, and Lucy Sherriff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022