Bibliograph

Outbreaks and epidemics, battling infection from measles to coronavirus, Meera Senthilingam

Type

Label

Outbreaks and epidemics, battling infection from measles to coronavirus, Meera Senthilingam

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Outbreaks and epidemics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1144724948

Responsibility statement

Meera Senthilingam

Series statement

Hot science

Sub title

battling infection from measles to coronavirus

Summary

In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes, and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite. But while we chase the diseases we are already aware of, new ones are constantly emerging, like the coronavirus that spread across the world in 2020. At the same time, antimicrobial resistance is harnessing infections that we once knew how to control, enabling them to thrive once more

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Room 911 -- Twenty-first-century infections -- Disease and politics -- Long live disease -- New and unknown -- Mosquito domination -- Time for a comeback -- When animals attack -- 'I'm not going anywhere' -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

Classification