Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine. * Provides readers an understanding and appreciation of the extent of the devastation of pandemic diseases of the past centuries * Shows how the pioneers of modern medicine conquered contagious diseases of the past that had been scourges in human history * Documents and explains the development of newly emerging viral diseases that have the potential of becoming pandemic outbreaks that kill millions * Employs primary documents ranging from data from reports from the CDC and WHO to firsthand accounts of past pandemics and their deadly impact

• | Author: Michael C. LeMay
• | Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 392 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
• | ISBN-10: 1440842825
• | ISBN-13: 9781440842825