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Outbreaks, Viruses, & Pandemics Hawaii State Public Library System 614.4 Wr (+eBook) Wright, Jennifer. Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them. Outbreaks, Viruses, & Pandemics 2017. Covers the Antonine plague, bubonic plague, dancing plague, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid fever, Spanish flu and polio. 614.514 Jo (+eBook) Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. 2006. Covers the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, it’s history, the expanding population of London, sanitation issues and the spread of the disease. 614.518 Br (+eBook; Large Type Print) BOOKS Brown, Jeremy. Influenza: the Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease In OVERVIEWS History. 2018. Explore the complex history of the Great Flu and the 1918 pandemic. The YA 616.9 Mc flu’s deadly past could protect us from the next McCoy, Erin L. Deadly Viruses. 2019. outbreak. Scientists believe that a large outbreak of a deadly infectious disease is likely to occur again. 614.518 Ko (+Large Type Print) 616.9 Wa Kolata, Gina. Flu: the Story of the Great Wayne, Marta L. Infectious Disease: a Very Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search Short Introduction. 2015. Discusses how For The Virus that Caused It. 1999. Discusses diseases are transmitted from one person to the 1918 Flu pandemic, the possibility of another another, strategies to combat the disease, and virus in the future and what would need to be the management of outbreaks. done to prevent an epidemic from reoccurring. 614.51809 Ba (+eBook, eAudiobook, Audiodisc) HISTORY OF OUTBREAKS AND PANDEMICS Barry, John M. The Great Influenza. 2004. History of the 1918 flu pandemic around the 362.1 Sh (+eBook and eAudiobook) world. Examines the causes, impact on society, Shah, Sonia. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, researchers who risked their lives, lasting From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. 2016. implications, and scientific discoveries. Explores the origins of outbreaks to new pathogens today. Interweaving history with 614.563 Wa (+eBook and eAudiobook) original reporting and personal narrative. Wasik, Bill. Rabid: a Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus. 2012. Authors 362.19691 Rh chart four thousand years in the history, science, Rhodes, John. The End of Plagues: The Global and cultural mythology of rabies. Battle Against Infectious Disease. 2013. Three centuries of plagues from smallpox, polio 614.57 P (+eBook and eAudiobook) to AIDS. Includes the discovery of vaccination, Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. 1994. The immunology, and the fight to eradicate the infectious deadly Ebola virus from the African diseases. rain forest spreads to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. killing 90 percent of its victims. 614.588 Pr (+eBook and eAudiobook) PREPARING FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES Preston, Richard. Crisis in the Red Zone: the 614.4 El Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in Ellis, Cat. Prepping for a Pandemic: Life-Saving History, and of the Outbreaks to Come. 2019. Supplies, Skills, and Plans to Survive an Chronicles the Ebola outbreak, the race to Outbreak. 2016. Information, checklists, and contain and combat it. tips to plan for a widespread disease outbreak. Topics include stocking food, water, contingency plans, first aid, and quarantines. PANDEMIC THEORIES, INVESTIGATIONS AND PREVENTIONS 362.1 Kh (+eAudiobook) Khan, Ali M.D. The Next Pandemic: on the Front Lines Against Humanity’s Greatest Dangers. WEBSITES (verified 04/9/2020) 2016. Theories on the next possible major disease outbreak. Hard-core investigative World Health Organization science that reads like a page-turning travel log. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel -coronavirus-2019 614.14 Os (+eBook) Center for Disease Control Osterholm, Michael T. Deadliest Enemy: Our https://www.cdc.gov/ War Against Killer Germs. 2017. Includes medical science, case studies, and policy National Library of Medicine research to discuss the resources and programs https://news.nnlm.gov/gmr/2020/02/covid-19- needed to keep safe from infectious diseases. coronavirus-for-public-libraries/ U.S. Food and Drug Administrationhttps:// 614.4 Qu (+eBook) www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and- Quick, Jonathan. The End of Epidemics: the response/mcm-issues/coronavirus-disease-2019 Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop -covid-19 It. 2018. Recommendations to prevent a future global pandemic. Shares examples of National Institutes of Health outbreaks in the past to plan ahead. https://www.nih.gov/health-information/ coronavirus 614.43 Qu (+eBook) State of Hawaii, Department of Health Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections https://health.hawaii.gov/docd/advisories/novel- and the Next Pandemic. 2012. Examines the coronavirus-2019/ emergence of new diseases. Discusses the potential for a huge pandemic starting in wild Johns Hopkins Conoravirus Resource Center animals and passed to humans. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 614.5 Le (+eBook) Levitt, Alexandra M. Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened By Pandemics, Exotic Viruses and Drug Resistant Parasites. 2013. Follows the adventures of medical investigators, sources of Hawaii State Public Library System outbreaks and how to stop them. Business, Science & Technology Section April 2020 616.9041 Mc (+eBook and eAudiobook) McCarthy, Matt. Superbugs: the Race to Stop an Epidemic. 2019. History of bacteria and antibiotics; advances in microbial research. .
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