epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Randall, David K. & David K. Randall

CHAPTER 11 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE A short article in the San Francisco Chronicle in April of 1902 made Rupert Blue’s pain public. Its headline alone, “Dr. Blue’s Wife Secures ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mark Honigsbaum

EVEN MORE SO than Legionnaires’ disease, the AIDS pandemic forced scientists to confront the hubristic assumption that medicine was on the verge of conquering infectious disease. This was not only ...

azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria & Hubris (2019, W. W. Norton Company)

EVEN MORE SO than Legionnaires’ disease, the AIDS pandemic forced scientists to confront the hubristic assumption that medicine was on the verge of conquering infectious disease. This was not only ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:K Webster

The End Make sure you check out Like Dragonflies—an Eden Books exclusive! You may enjoy some of these K Webster titles… The Wild Hale Bad Bad Bad This is War, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

17 The idea of Ouesso and its market served as a crucial enticement to get the Voyager, as I imagine him, on his way. That’s where the wildcat notion of ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Rebecca M. Seaman

I had asked you, citizen consul, to do nothing that might make [the blacks] fear for their freedom until I was ready, and I was making rapid progress toward that ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Michael T. Osterholm & Mark Olshaker [Osterholm, Michael T.]

The potential for similar outbreaks anywhere in the world should be noted from a single traveller as long as MERS-CoV transmission continues in the Middle East. Emergency preparedness and vigilance ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:McMillen, Christian W. [McMillen, Christian W.]

Chapter 5 Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, might be the oldest human disease. It is part of a family of mycobacterial diseases, including M. africanum, M. bovis, and M. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Larry Brilliant

CHAPTER 13 Tales of the Jungle We are all faced with a series of opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. —Charles Swindoll We returned to the capital of India, alive ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Donald G. McNeil

10 The Proof ON FEBRUARY 1, 2016, when the WHO declared its emergency based on the possibility that Zika caused microcephaly, reporters asked WHO officials exactly what evidence was needed ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:David Grove [Grove, David]

Figure 149. Cough plate of Bordet–Gengou medium. The arrow points to a clump of colonies of B. pertussis. The other larger colonies are mouth organisms. Bordet and Gengou had achieved ...

mobi |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Gerald Markowitz & David Rosner

BALTIMORE AND THE LEGACY OF RACE A growing port city, Baltimore in the nineteenth century had, up until the 1870s when it was overtaken by Washington, D.C. in this respect, ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Peter Doherty

14 Blue bloods and chicken bugs TRADITIONALLY, ANY NOTION OF good breeding and inheritance was synonymous with the idea of blood lines. That was before the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Slack, Paul [Slack, Paul]

The sufferings of the illiterate majority can only be glimpsed indirectly, but those who were literate found ways of expressing their feelings, particularly about the death of children. An early ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-13 | Author:Rodolfo Saracci [Saracci, Rodolfo]

A wide range of specific studies is being conducted within the EPIC cohort and findings of major interest have already emerged. Nearly 15,000 deaths from any cause have been recorded ...