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The Pandemic Century - One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Pandemic Century - One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

By Mark Honigsbaum

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About the book

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a...Show more

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9780393254754

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WW Norton & Co

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2019

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The Pandemic Century - One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

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