BOOKS BY CATEGORY
Your Account
Pandemic
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
This book is currently unavailable – please contact us for further information.
Price
Quantity
€15.85
(To see other currencies, click on price)
Paperback / softback
Add to basket  

MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK

Main description:

More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in 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 deep-dive into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like--and what we can do to prevent it.


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9781250118004
Publisher: Picador USA
Publication date: March, 2017
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 140.00 x 210.00 x 19.00
Weight: 272g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Infectious Diseases

CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Average Rating