| Description |
xii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / David R. Franz -- Ch. 1. The birds that fell from the sky - West Nile virus -- Ch. 2. Corona of death - SARS -- Ch. 3. Arroyo Muerte - Sin Nombre Hantavirus -- Ch. 4. Outbreaks, reservoirs, and dead end hosts -- Ch. 5. Shards of glass in the brain - bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) -- Ch. 6. Out of the shadows - Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaire's disease) -- Ch. 7. An ill wind - smallpox -- Ch. 8. Natural born killers - why some germs stay bad -- Ch. 9. Something in the water - cholera, cryptosporidiosis -- Ch. 10. When hours count - but days don't matter - anthrax -- Ch. 11. Healer, heal thyself : curing what ails the public health system -- Ch. 12. Project BIOWATCH - plague vials vanish in Texas -- Ch. 13. A new weapon in the fight -- Ch. 14. DNA-based vaccines -- Ch. 15. Three ounces of prevention - scenarios involving avian bird flu, bioterrorism using smallpox -- Ch. 16. Into a crystal ball, darkly - a look at the future |
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App. Letter by e-mail to Lev Sandakchiev |
| Summary |
"At once frightening and reassuring, Microbe exposes conditions conducive to major biological crises: gaps in information and communication chains, deployment and distribution strategies, and containment plans, and more. But it also presents practical approaches that, if implemented, will go a long way to neutralize or reduce those threats."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- United States.
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Communicable diseases -- United States.
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Bioterrorism -- United States.
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| Author |
Bellomo, Michael.
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| LC no. |
2005007352 |
| ISBN |
0814408656 |
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