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Author | : Alfred J. Bollet |
Publisher | : Demos Medical Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 188879979X |
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Annotation - infectious diseases- non-infectious diseases- bioterrorism.
Author | : D. A. Henderson, M.D. |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-09-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 161592230X |
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For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the earth. This spellbinding book is Dr. Henderson’s personal story of how he led the World Health Organization’s campaign to eradicate smallpox—the only disease in history to have been deliberately eliminated. Some have called this feat "the greatest scientific and humanitarian achievement of the past century." In a lively, engrossing narrative, Dr. Henderson makes it clear that the gargantuan international effort involved more than straightforward mass vaccination. He and his staff had to cope with civil wars, floods, impassable roads, and refugees as well as formidable bureaucratic and cultural obstacles, shortages of local health personnel and meager budgets. Countries across the world joined in the effort; the United States and the Soviet Union worked together through the darkest cold war days; and professionals from more than 70 nations served as WHO field staff. On October 26, 1976, the last case of smallpox occurred. The disease that annually had killed two million people or more had been vanquished–and in just over ten years. The story did not end there. Dr. Henderson recounts in vivid detail the continuing struggle over whether to destroy the remaining virus in the two laboratories still that held it. Then came the startling discovery that the Soviet Union had been experimenting with smallpox virus as a biological weapon and producing it in large quantities. The threat of its possible use by a rogue nation or a terrorist has had to be taken seriously and Dr. Henderson has been a central figure in plans for coping with it. New methods for mass smallpox vaccination were so successful that he sought to expand the program of smallpox immunization to include polio, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, and tetanus vaccines. That program now reaches more than four out of five children in the world and is eradicating poliomyelitis. This unique book is to be treasured—a personal and true story that proves that through cooperation and perseverance the most daunting of obstacles can be overcome.
Author | : Kenneth F. Kiple |
Publisher | : Phoenix |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Communicable diseases |
ISBN | : 9780753807125 |
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Covering some of humankind's most notorious diseases, this book describes, with individual examples, the changing historical relationships between humans and their diseases, many of which they have helped to create. Contemporary illustrations show how the diseases were perceived in the past.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Fenn |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809078219 |
Download Pox Americana Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply "variola" affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. Illustrations.
Author | : James Cross Giblin |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1997-04-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0064461955 |
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Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history—the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS—chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have advanced as a result of the crises they have occasioned. "A book that would serve well for reports, but it is also a fascinating read."—SLJ. Best Books of 1995 (SLJ) Notable Children's Trade Books in Social Studies 1996 (NCSS/CBC) 1995 Young Adult Editors’ Choices (BL) 1995 Top of the List Non Fiction (BL) 1996 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Notable Children’s Books of 1996 (ALA)
Author | : Alfred J. Bollet |
Publisher | : Demos Medical Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Whatever programs you develop, there's one task that you will almost always have to achieve - accessing and manipulating data. This data can be stored in many places, but large quantities of data that need to be frequently accessed are usually stored in relational databases such as SQL Server. Knowing how this data is structured, and how to access and update it, is therefore one of the most important programming tasks the professional programmer needs to learn. This book is designed to teach those essential skills quickly and painlessly to anyone programming in Microsoft's new C SHARP language. As well as database basics such as the SQL language used to communicate with databases, we cover the specifics of data access using C SHARP in depth. Data access in .NET is achieved through the ADO.NET classes; these are essentially a replacement for ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and combine ADO's ease of use with powerful new features such as enhanced XML support. The core of this book consists of a thorough but easy-to-read tutorial to ADO.NET.
Author | : Richard Platt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Animals as carriers of disease |
ISBN | : 9780753431689 |
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Tells the history of diseases and epidemics and presents some information on efforts to fight them.
Author | : John Townsend |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781410925466 |
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Describes the history of disease and infection from ancient times to the present.
Author | : Jon Arrizabalaga |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300069341 |
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A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'.
Author | : John Townsend |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781410913333 |
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Describes the symptoms and treatment of certain illnesses throughout history, including scurvy, yellow fever, measles, typhoid, and polio.