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Em 1918, um novo vírus de influenza, até então restrito às aves, passou a se manifestar também em humanos. Um ano mais tarde, o saldo era de pelo menos 100 mil mortos daquela que ficaria conhecida na história como gripe espanhola, marcando o primeiro grande embate entre a ciência e uma pandemia. Em apenas dois anos o vírus matou mais pessoas do que a Aids em todo o mundo ao longo dos 24 anos desde a sua descoberta, e mais pessoas em um ano do que a peste negra ao longo de um século.

Sono organi raffinatissimi e delicati: sintetizzano, inventano, determinano il miracolo della vita. Sono i nostri polmoni, leggeri e preziosi, la loro attività non si può fermare nemmeno il tempo necessario per curarli, perché nessuno sopravvive senza ossigeno, nessuno può stare più di pochi minuti senza respirare. Quando un nuovo virus sconosciuto e letale ha cominciato a insidiare proprio i polmoni, ci siamo accorti che la maggior parte di noi li conosce pochissimo: come funzionano, cosa occorre per mantenerli in salute e cosa li mette in crisi?

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one—in this “fascinating, ferocious fusillade against...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “essential work that provides lasting insights and lessons for the individual and society” (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Times bestselling author), a young pediatric surgeon and mother reveals her dramatic, cathartic diary, written as she worked on the front...

Hundreds of researchers and clinicians have been making breakthroughs in understanding Lyme disease. I am sharing my understanding of these breakthroughs as a clinical epidemiologist and physician with more than 36 years of experience.

Overlæge og virusforsker Anders Fomsgaard fra Statens Serum Institut har skrevet en klog, skrækfascinerende og paradoksalt underholdende bog om de virus, vi må leve med som mennesker – fra influenza og herpes hele vejen til ebola. Det handler om de grove virus, der truer os med udbrud og globale pandemier. De utilpassede virus, der egentlig burde bedrive deres spil i dyr, men kan finde på at springe på os mennesker, hvis vi kommer i vejen. De klamme virus, der går efter børn og folk med tæt kontakt til andres kroppe.

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg “A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through the...

El 13 de enero de 2020, Salvador Illa tomaba posesión de su nuevo cargo: Ministro de Sanidad. Ese mismo día, en la otra punta del mundo, las alertas empezaban a sonar en Wuhan. Transcurrido un tiempo prudencial y superada ya una de las peores crisis sanitarias de la historia, toca hacer balance y dar cuenta de lo acaecido. Esta es una crónica en primera persona de un año que transcurrió a un ritmo frenético, un libro que nos sumerge en la trastienda del poder, una pequeña sala de crisis desde la que se lideró y coordinó el trabajo de cientos de profesionales y en la que fue imposible aislarse de la gravedad y de la tensión con la que se vivía en España esos días.

“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human...

Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life.

After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant described bacteria for the first time. Ending Epidemics explains how we came to understand and prevent many of our worst infectious diseases—and double average life expectancy.

Může virus zemřít? A jak se z virů chcípáčků stávají světoví šampióni? Máme se obávat silného státu? A jaký smysl má mýlit se? Pandemie nemoci covid-19 přináší záplavu otázek, ale málo jasných odpovědí. Komu věřit, když je všude plno „odborníků“? Publicista Aleš Palán se rozhodl „uvěřit“ člověku, který s viry žije skoro celý profesní život. Rozhovor s předním českým biochemikem a prorektorem Karlovy Univerzity Janem Konvalinkou je výletem do světa vědy, smrtících virů, i nevědeckých fám; do zákulisí koronavirové pandemie i chyb, kterých jsme se dopustili.

Uno de los propósitos de estos ensayos sobre la peste es entendernos mejor: la vivencia de las epidemias y pandemias acompañó a la humanidad desde siempre; conocer su expresión en la literatura y las artes sirve para tener una imagen más acabada de nosotros mismos. El recorrido por la historia de las epidemias y pandemias en la literatura y las artes -desde la Ilíada hasta las películas de muertos vivos- que Carlos Gamerro propone en este libro interpela persistente nuestros tiempo y experiencia contemporáneos.

To place the story of tuberculosis in Arkansas in historical perspective, the authors trace the origins of the disease. Arkansas suffered some of the worst ravages of the disease, and the authors argue that many of the improvements in the state's medical infrastructure grew out of the desperate need to control it.

As bad as Covid-19 was, the next pandemic could be worse—but we have the tools to prepare, as revealed in this urgent, gripping warning by the New York Times bestselling authors of Deadliest Enemy. The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more...

COVID-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics – one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health. Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever.

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white...

Le pandemie sono grandi eventi trasformazionali. Si abbattono su sistemi che si credono consolidati, aprendo crepe e facendo tremare tutto. Destabilizzano, insomma. Suscitano un sentimento ambivalente: paura e incertezza da una parte, ma anche meraviglia, perché all'interno delle loro pieghe ci sono enormi opportunità. Di comprensione del mondo, di aggiornamento del nostro modo di relazionarci a esso.

Mankind across the world has been imprisoned. They called it lockdown. We have been terrified into submission. Words like ‘pandemic’ and images of horror have been thrust upon us. It is all a scam. A lie. It is part of a long-term plot to control, manipulate and enslave mankind. A divided world has been brought together under a common threat and it is just the beginning. There are massive, global revolutions being created and fostered by a powerful, dark and sinister group that have directed the sheep for countless generations.

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural...

Este libro te permitirá conocer la lepra desde la conciencia de un ser humano, como tu, que antes de nacer, dentro del vientre de su madre diagnosticada con esta enfermedad, ya transitaba libre de contagio. Atravesó la etapa de su niñez acompañada de su propia imaginación que le creó un campo de protección para que inconscientemente pudiera salir ilesa de todos los efectos de la lepra (aislamiento obligatorio, separación familiar, pobreza económica, estigma, dolor y sufrimiento).

Una historia de las catástrofes deslumbrante, original y repleta de ideas para el futuro que pone en perspectiva el ya conocido como annus horribilis.

The first patient-to-patient guide for people living with Long COVID—with expert advice and an afterword by the leading research scientist

Looking back on the Covid-19 pandemic, do you often wonder what kind of impact it had on social, healthcare, economic, educational, and food systems on a global scale? Using your experience during this difficult time, would you like to be empowered with information that will help you make better decisions and improve your life? Would you like to get your hands on an audiobook that will inspire you with stories of resilience and hope so that you can also turn your lemons into lemonade? Then this is the audiobook for you!

In January 2020, Donald Trump was on the fast track to an easy re-election. While his first two years had been stymied by House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the Democrats, his third year had been one of remarkable success. The United States had low unemployment and was making strides across the globe. The president's rallies were well-attended, and he was being projected to win four hundred electoral votes and about forty-five states. Then came COVID-19.

To the world's public health authorities, Covid-19 would either be a deadly disease for some, or it would be a simple respiratory illness for most—cleared up in a couple of weeks. But then tens of millions around the world got sick and stayed sick. With scientists and doctors caught off guard, these patients often found solace only in themselves, organizing support groups across continents while ill in bed. An innovative band of patients researched the disease themselves, flipping the script and illustrating a new paradigm for research.

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor.

En diciembre de 2019 la noticia de una neumonía desconocida que asolaba a la ciudad china de Wuhan parecía un relato de ciencia ficción. Algunos meses más tarde, las es-cenas apocalípticas de metrópolis desiertas, hospitales desbordados y millones de personas confinadas se repetían por todo el mundo: era el inicio de la pandemia del coronavirus.

In My Quest for Health Equity, Dr. Satcher takes an inspiring and instructive look inside his fifty-year career to shed light on the challenge and burden of leadership. Explaining that he has thought of each leadership role—whether in academia, community, or government—as an opportunity to move the needle toward health equity, he shares the hard-won lessons he has learned over a lifetime in the medical field.

Neueste Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung: Wie das Corona-Virus unser Gehirn schädigt und wie man das Risiko für Long-Covid minimieren kann. Erschöpfung, Gehirnnebel, Konzentrationsprobleme: Etwa zehn Prozent aller Corona-Patienten beklagen diese und ähnliche Langzeitfolgen noch Monate nach der Infektion, selbst nach einem milden Krankheitsverlauf – auch wenn die Betroffenen zuvor jung, gesund und leistungsstark waren.