The essential handbook of epidemics, viruses and plagues / Dr Peter Moore.

By:

Moore, Pete, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Books, c2007 [i.e. 2006]Description: 144 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cmISBN:

0670070807
9780670070800

Other title:

Epidemics, viruses and plagues

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

616.91 22

Partial contents:

Pt. one: around and about - community disease -- Pt. two: airborne diseases -- Pt. three: sexually transmitted diseases -- Pt. four: food- and water-borne diseases -- Pt. five: animal-borne diseases.

Review: "In the face of anxiety about an avian flu outbreak, The Essential Handbook of Epidemics, Viruses and Plagues puts it all in context. A concise and compelling insight into 50 of the most virulent and vicious plagues, pandemics and infectious diseases known to medical science, this is your guide book to diseases of the past and present with some warnings about the future." -- BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. one: around and about - community disease -- Pt. two: airborne diseases -- Pt. three: sexually transmitted diseases -- Pt. four: food- and water-borne diseases -- Pt. five: animal-borne diseases.

"In the face of anxiety about an avian flu outbreak, The Essential Handbook of Epidemics, Viruses and Plagues puts it all in context. A concise and compelling insight into 50 of the most virulent and vicious plagues, pandemics and infectious diseases known to medical science, this is your guide book to diseases of the past and present with some warnings about the future." -- BOOK JACKET.

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