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Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah.

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"Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 125011800X
ISBN: 9781250118004
Physical Description: viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Picador edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Picador, 2017.
Copyright: ©2016

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General Note:	"A Sarah Crichton book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.

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Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > History.
Public health surveillance.

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