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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... as ects, the story flows seamlessly through the stages of the outbreak, linking together the myriad activities of medical ersonnel, scientists, field biologists, the news media, and the American o ulace. The resulting.
... resulting account rovides both a history of the events and an ex lanation for those events—the ''whys'' and ''wherefores'' that often are glossed over in the short sound bytes of modern media coverage. But the story is not confined ...
... result of a severe trauma. The majority of ARDS is seen in the elderly. These young, healthy patients were not typical ARDS cases. Dr. Tempest contacted the New Mexico Department of Health to request tests for possible causes, but what ...
... results in a long, hard winter, lo als obviously did not want to dis ourage visitation. While everyone tried to allay the pani , in private there was some re - ognition that it might not be a good time to invite visitors into the area ...
... the Navajo reservation, and ompared to other available jobs, work in the narrow, unventilated mine tunnels paid very well. As a result, many of those vi tims were Navajo. So the Native Ameri ans of the Four Corners had.
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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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