Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

by Shah, Sonia
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ISBN: 9781250118004
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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 alarming, Pandemic delves deep into the convoluted science, strange politics, and the checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, offering a prelude to the future that's impossible to ignore.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Shah, Sonia
  • ISBN: 9781250118004
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2017

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