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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... plague. The disease that killed millions in 14th-century Europe is spread here by the fleas hosted by prairie dogs. There are other animal-borne diseases that demand attention, including, occasionally, rabies. This is still not, by any ...
... Dr. Tempest contacted the New Mexico Department of Health to request tests for possible causes, but what were the suspects? THE USUAL SUSPECTS 9 First: plague, a relatively rare disease 8 THE HEART OF AMERICA/THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
... plague, a relatively rare disease that, every so often, emerges to kill. Plague is a rodent-borne disease, transmitted to humans by the fleas that live on those rodents. In the Southwest, prairie dogs and squirrels are hosts to plague ...
... plague laboratories in the world. Samples taken by Dr. McFeely were quickly tested, and by Sunday, May 16, it was clear that there were no signs of plague. One of the obvious suspects had been eliminated. Tests had also been carried out ...
... plagues,'' in luding polio in the early 1950s and Legionnaire's disease in 1977, when health offi ials re ommended avoiding publi pla es. Through all this, there was pre ious little information on whi h to base de isions Anglos weren't ...
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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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