Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: HantavirusElsevier, 28 июн. 1999 г. - Всего страниц: 278 In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts. A previously unknown disease was killing up to 80% of the people it infected. The reaction in the area and across the nation mixed fear, lack of information, and the struggles of doctors to save the victims of an unknown killer with hard science and the age old rhythmns of the desert. What came out was the story of a virus that had been killing since man arrived in the American continents, Hantavirus, with deadly relatives across the Americas and across the world. This book explains why and how the virus kills, and why it is still killing today. Why all of the science aimed at a virus identified back in 1993 has not brought a vaccine or a cure is part of the story, as is how that killer virus fits into the story of "new" diseases across the world. The story of hantavirus disease, what has happened since that first outbreak, and what the real risks are is laid out by an experienced scientist and an award winning journalist living and working in the area of the 1993 outbreak.
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... Sources of Further Information . . . . . 257 APPENDIX C: Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 FOREWORD .................... IF IT CAN HAPPEN HERE . . .
... HAPPEN HERE . . . As art of the most scientifically advanced society in the history of mankind, we Americans often feel distanced and insulated, erha seven immune, from the disease e idemics that ravage many arts of the ''undevelo ed ...
... happens there. Humans have attempted to live in the Four orners for millennia; some have adapted to the realities of desert life, but many more have passed from the picture. Grand anyon explorer John Wesley Powell, who was an ...
... happened once and might possibly happen again. That level of contagion and mortality has been reduced drastically by modern medicine, and simple sanitation plays a big part. Plague is a known commodity (and a bacterium, not a virus); it ...
... happen here. Native Ameri ans had their own legitimate, although distant, memories of su h a travesty. In June 1763, Fort Pitt on the Ohio River was under siege by the Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo tribes. To ompound the troubles of the ...
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CHAPTER 5 OF MICE AND MEN | 59 |
CHAPTER 6 AT LAST A PLAN | 79 |
OUT OF ASIA | 99 |
CHAPTER 8 OTHER HANTAVIRUSES | 117 |
CHAPTER 11 CHANGES CONCEALMENT AND TROJAN HORSES | 163 |
CHAPTER 12 COUSINS | 183 |
CHAPTER 13 WHAT WE KNOW | 199 |
CHAPTER 14 HOW TO STOP A VIRUS | 215 |
CHAPTER 15 OUTBREAKS | 233 |
Centers for Disease Control Guidelines on Prevention of HPS | 249 |
Sources of Further Information | 257 |
Abbreviations | 264 |
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Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus David Richard Harper,Andrea S. Meyer Недоступно для просмотра - 1999 |
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