Pandemics : the invisible enemy

Record details

ISBN: 164265728X
ISBN: 9781642657289
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 162 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Current topics: curated free content from Salem Press and Grey House Publishing to explore current events through an historical lens"

Formatted Contents Note:

COVID-19. COVID-19 disease ; Time for physicians to create history together ; Coronavirus infections ; Will the Coronavirus end globalization as we know it? -- General information about pandemics. Epidemics and pandemics: history ; Epidemics and pandemics: causes and management ; Outbreaks of infectious disease ; Public health -- Late \ Middle Ages. Invasion of the Black Death in Europe ; The Black Death: two readings ; Decameron ; Florentine Chronicle ; Genocide of American Indians -- Seventeenth Century. 1635: Mohawk Tribesman efforts help prevent smallpox ; Great Plague in London -- Eighteenth Century. Last major outbreak of plague ; Document 19: John Bartram on reclaiming Florida's wetlands (1767) -- Nineteenth Century. National Quarantine Act ; Thirteen-year-old orphan in 1882 ; Ross establishes Malaria's Transmission Vector -- Twentieth Century. Mary Mallon ; An army physician on the 1918 flu pandemic ; Influenza epidemic strikes ; 1919 profile health: preventing another influenza epidemic ; 1919 profile: college freshman from North Carolina ; Drinker and Shaw develop a mechanical respirator ; Zinsser develops an immunization against typhus ; Typhus immunization ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; World Health Organization (WHO) ; Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) ; On the polio vaccine situation ; Sabin develops the oral polio vaccine ; Asian flu pandemic kills millions worldwide ; Asian flu epidemic ; Ebola epidemic kills first of many in Africa ; AIDS epidemic ; Meningitis outbreak proves deadly in West Africa -- Twenty-First Century. SARS epidemic results In over 8,000 reported cases and 774 known deaths ; Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) ; "The earlier, the better: building immune defenses against H1N1," NewsUSA, June 12,2009 ; New strain of swine flu does not kill as many people as originally feared ; Outbreaks of the zika virus spread throughout much of the Americas.