TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shah,Sonia
TI  - Pandemic: tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond 
SN  - 9780374122881
AV  - RA643 .S52 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - History
KW  - Public health surveillance
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology
KW  - MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases
N1  - Includes index; Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China -- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis -- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera -- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance -- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine -- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm -- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics -- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world
N2  - Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps
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