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From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten...

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases. “Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas Kristoff Violence is often described...

The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world's population were living under quarantine. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options?

In this work, Dr Laartz continues on his quest to educate the public how to protect themselves from infections associated with everyday exposures as well as those stemming from hospitals, nursing facilities, and surgical procedures. Knowledge is imparted regarding protection against infections associated with diabetes, chemotherapy, and pneumonia among other common maladies. In addition, advice is given how to avoid travel related infections, especially mosquito borne viruses such as Zika virus.

Esta exhaustive historia analiza el devastador impacto de la Viruela en la civilización humana. Examina los orígenes de la enfermedad, su propagación por los distintos continentes y los avances científicos que condujeron a su erradicación...

A groundbreaking book about the past, present, and future of pandemics, and a behind-the-scenes portrait of the intrepid and innovative community of scientists working tirelessly to stop the next one before it starts In 1955, the vaccine that eliminated polio was celebrated as a “planned...

Brought to you by Penguin. Thomas Asbridge’s remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity’s greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity. In the mid-fourteenth century, a lethal plague struck the medieval world, causing unimaginable suffering and...

Este libro se adentra en la sobrecogedora pero reveladora historia de la pandemia de Gripe Espa–ola de 1918-1919, explorando sus or’genes, s’ntomas y su propagaci—n global sin precedentes. Desde el impacto de la enfermedad en la vida cotidiana hasta los cambios en las pol’ticas de...