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Patient Zero
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Author : Marilee Peters
language : en
Publisher: Annick Press
Release Date : 2014-09-23
Patient Zero written by Marilee Peters and has been published by Annick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Engrossing true stories of the pioneers of epidemiology who risked their lives to find the source of deadly diseases. Throughout history, more people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters. The courageous, trail-blazing defenders against these diseases faced a terrifying personal gamble. Often they were ignored, laughed at, or even fired from their jobs. But they kept hunting for answers, putting the pieces of the epidemic puzzle together. As they looked for clues to the origin of a disease, scientists searched for the unknown “patient zero”—the first person to have contracted it. In nineteenth-century London, Dr. John Snow’s mapping of an epidemic found that patient zero was a six-month-old baby, whose cholera-laden diarrhea had contaminated the water of a local pump. It led to the death of 10,000 inhabitants exposed to the dirty water. Patient Zero brilliantly brings to life the main characters and events to tell the gripping tale of how each of seven diseases spread. • The Great Plague, 1665 • The Soho Outbreak,1854 • Yellow Fever in Cuba, 1900 • Typhoid in New York City, 1906 • Spanish Influenza, 1918-1919 • Ebola in Zaire, 1976 • AIDS in the U.S., 1980. The result is spine-chilling as Peters follows the scientists who solved the intricate mystery of the killer epidemics. Patient Zero reminds us that millions of people owe their lives to the work of these pioneer epidemiologists, work that continues to this day. Reviews: “The book reads like a thriller, with gripping accounts of how these diseases affected people.” —School Library Journal, 08/14 “ ... the mysterious nature of unexplained epidemics is perfectly captured ...” —Kirkus Reviews,08/20/14
Patient Zero
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Author : Jonathan Maberry
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-16
Patient Zero written by Jonathan Maberry and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-16 with Fiction categories.
'When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.' Police officer Joe Ledger, martial arts expert, ex-army, self-confessed brutal warrior is scared. The man he's just killed is the same man he killed a week ago. He never expected to see the man again, definitely not alive, and definitely not as part of the recruitment process for the hyper-secret government agency the Department for Military Sciences. But the DMS are scared too: they have word of a terrorist plot straight from a nightmare - a bid to spread a plague through America - a plague that kills its victims and turns them into zombies. Time is running out and Joe has shown he has the abilities they need to lead one of their field teams. And so begins a desperate three-part mission - to contain the zombie outbreaks, to break the terrorist cell responsible and to find the man in their own team who is selling them out to the terrorists. Patient Zero is astonishingly fast moving, incredibily violent and down-right terrifying thriller - a new breed of thriller of techo-thriller that plays on our fears of mad science.
Patient Zero
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Author : Lydia Kang
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-11-16
Patient Zero written by Lydia Kang and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Medical categories.
How did it start? Why did it spread? How do we stop it? Packed with one thrilling medical mystery after another, Patient Zero tells the curious story of 21 of the world’s worst diseases—including smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, AIDS—by combining Patient Zero narratives with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. Discover the tragic story of Zaire schoolteacher Mabalo Lokela, whose relaxing vacation resulted in him becoming Patient Zero of Ebola virus disease. How a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. And what the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic has to teach us about Covid-19. (Guess what: There was an anti-mask movement back then, too)
Patient Zero
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Author : Jonathan Maberry
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Patient Zero written by Jonathan Maberry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
Patient Zero And The Making Of The Aids Epidemic
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Author : Richard A. McKay
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Patient Zero And The Making Of The Aids Epidemic written by Richard A. McKay and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with History categories.
Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay interprets a wealth of archival sources and interviews to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas—and fears—about contagion and social disorder. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaétan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed—and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of patient zero—adopting, challenging and redirecting its powerful meanings—as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first fifteen years of an unfolding epidemic. With important insights for our interconnected age, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. What McKay gives us here is myth-smashing revisionist history at its best.
Patient Zero
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Author : Jonathan Maberry
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2009-03-03
Patient Zero written by Jonathan Maberry and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-03 with Fiction categories.
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance....
Patient Zero And The Making Of The Aids Epidemic
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Author : Richard A. McKay
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Patient Zero And The Making Of The Aids Epidemic written by Richard A. McKay and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with History categories.
Introduction: "He is still out there"--What came before zero? -- The cluster study -- "Humanizing this disease" -- Giving a face to the epidemic -- Ghosts and blood -- Locating Gaétan Dugas's views -- Epilogue: zero hour-making histories of the North American AIDS epidemic
Patient Zero
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Author : Fritz Galt
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2017-05-05
Patient Zero written by Fritz Galt and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to the hot zone! Caught in a raging pandemic, disease detectives put it all on the line to find Patient Zero. Through all the coughing, choking and misery of a killer virus on the loose, public health officials must combat Chinese secrecy, U.S. drug company interests and a criminal coverup to stop the disease in its tracks. But are they too late? Enjoy this close-up, clinical look at an unfolding disaster, with a Chinese city in crisis, relationships lost, international criminal justice in action, and a medical community's desperate search for Patient Zero. "This novel sparkles!" - author Henry D. Smith
Patient Zero A Curious History Of The Worlds Worst Diseases
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Author : Lydia Kang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Patient Zero A Curious History Of The Worlds Worst Diseases written by Lydia Kang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Pandemic Patient Zero
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Author : Amanda Bridgeman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Pandemic Patient Zero written by Amanda Bridgeman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Fiction categories.
An exciting new series based on the hit family game Pandemic begins with a deadly disease breaking out in darkest Peru - it's up to a crack team of experts to find the source before it spreads, in this taut airport thriller. Bodhi Patel is the brand new Lead Epidemiologist for the world's top epidemic specialists, Global Health Agency, but there's no time to settle in: his new boss, Helen Taylor, deploys GHA to contain a mysterious new killer virus spreading into Brazil. On the ground they learn that the virus is loose in a region controlled by a heavily armed drug warlord, and the race against time to discover a cure just got a whole lot tougher. Meanwhile, Bodhi finds himself with a newly reshuffled team still smarting from the changes, including his ex - the last person he expected to be working with.