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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... identified victim had been young and healthy. A long-distance runner, 19year-old Merrill Bahe certainly did not fit the profile of the population group most likely to die from a respiratory illness. We know from influenza, pneumonia ...
... identified five cases with similar symptoms since late 1992. All were fatal and all involved young Navajos living on the reservation or close to it. All had suffered the same massive flooding of the lungs, an extreme or ''fulminant ...
... identified as suffering from the new disease. The two later cases had been in contact with Merrill Bahe for 4 days of his illness. An obvious conclusion was that they had been infected from him during that time, which led to the major ...
... identified. Merrill Bahe was the youngest, the oldest a woman of 58. Twelve were dead. Not all were Navajo; in fat, one fatal ase was in a woman from I eland. However, all were from on or around the reservation. On May 27, the ...
... identifying the mystery killer. THE. PRIMING. OF. ATLANTA. A meeting was alled at the CDC for Friday, May 28, just before the Memorial Day weekend that loses down half the ountry. The meeting was haired by emerging diseases spe ialist Dr ...
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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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