LeMay, Michael C.,

Global pandemic threats : a reference handbook / Michael C. LeMay. - 1 online resource (xix, 366 pages) : illustrations. - Gale virtual reference library Contemporary world issues . - Contemporary world issues. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background and history -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Perspectives -- Profiles -- Data and documents -- Resources -- Chronology.

This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine.

9781440842825 9781440842832


Diseases--Social aspects.
Epidemics--Prevention.
Epidemics.
Medicine, Preventive.

GB5014 / .L45 2016

363.34/9

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