LEADER 04966cam 2200589 i 4500001 ocn907585936 003 OCoLC 005 20170427123228.0 008 150413s2016 nyua 001 0 eng 010 2015010246 016 7 101681262 |2DNLM 019 898419511 020 9780374122881 (hardback) 020 0374122881 (hardback) 020 |z9780374708740 (e-book) 024 8 99966446082 035 (Sirsi) o907585936 035 (OCoLC)907585936 |z(OCoLC)898419511 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dIEP |dGK8 |dGVA |dABG |dBUR |dCDX |dCUV |dNLM |dOHI |dBEDGE |dYUS |dCGN |dTXHUT |dCHVBK |dNEH |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 049 NEHH 050 00 RA643 |b.S52 2016 060 00 2016 D-295 060 10 WC 11.1 082 00 362.1 |223 084 SOC057000SCI036000MED022090 |2bisacsh 100 1 Shah, Sonia. |=^A394835 245 10 Pandemic : |btracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / |cSonia Shah. 264 1 New York : |bSarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c2016. 300 viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 500 Includes index. 520 "From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, 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, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like-and what we can do to prevent it"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-253) and index. 505 0 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. 650 0 Communicable diseases |xEpidemiology |xHistory. |=^A990963 650 0 Public health surveillance. |=^A567153 650 12 Communicable Diseases |xhistory |0(DNLM)D003141Q000266 |=^A919565 650 22 Pandemics |xhistory |0(DNLM)D058873Q000266 |=^A1114785 650 22 Communicable Diseases |xepidemiology |0(DNLM)D003141Q000453 |=^A925261 650 22 Public Health Surveillance |0(DNLM)D062486 |=^A1326736 650 22 History, Modern 1601- |0(DNLM)D049711 |=^A941827 650 0 Science |vLife Sciences. |=^A4051 949 WC 11.1 S525p 2016 |hHSL101 |i31740005995158 |p$17.68 |ohjph 994 C0 |bNEH 096 WC 11.1 |bS525p 2016 596 4 998 4623408