Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to coronaviruses and beyond /
"Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either emerged or reemerged, appearing in places where they've never before been seen. Years before the sudden arrival of COVID-19, ninety percent of epidemiologists predicted that one of them would cause a deadly...
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New York :
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2020.
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| Edition: | Second Picador paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface tot he 2020 paperback edition
- Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback
- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands
- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes
- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China
- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis
- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera
- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance
- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine
- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm
- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics
- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world.