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Loading... Little Book of Pandemicsby Peter Moore
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  widdersyns | Jul 19, 2020 |    )1  SLHobbs | Jan 15, 2010 | ) meggyweg | Aug 10, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
Rashes, tremors, nausea, fever, dizziness, swelling, fainting, bleeding, spasms, blindness, shock, coma, death. The three greatest killers in human history have not been war, famine, or natural disaster. They have been influenza, Black Death, and AIDS. Int he face of anxiety about an avian flu outbreak, The Little Book of Pandemics puts it all into context. A concise and compelling insight into 50 of the most virulent and vicious plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases currently known to medical science, this is your guide book to diseases of the past and present with some warnings about the future. From outbreak and symptoms to percentage chance of survival everything you need to know is here. - Back cover. No library descriptions found. |
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The bars at the top of each entry are basically useless, though. He calls chicken pox "one of the most contagious diseases known to man" and then rates infectivity at less than a quarter of the bar. Similarly, tuberculosis is called "one of the most deadly" but the likelihood of dying is just a sliver of the bar. Really inconsistent with these on general. (