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1) Viruses
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Discusses viruses, including their physical characteristics and some of the diseases they can cause.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic"--
Scientists have warned for decades that the next big pandemic would be caused by a changeable new virus - very possibly a coronavirus - but such warnings were ignored for political or economic reasons. This book takes readers inside the frantic international effort to understand and...
Author
Publisher
ASM Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Parents' anxiety about their children contracting vicious germs and untreatable diseases is understandable. The news is filled with stories of resistant "superbugs", contaminated hamburger and spinach, bird flu, "flesh-eating" germs, and the West Nile Virus. In a world seemingly full of microscopic danger, where can concerned parents turn to protect their kids? Here, a respected pediatrician and infectious diseases expert brings common sense and real...