Bird Flu Everything You Need to Know about the Next Pandemic

Name: Bird Flu Everything You Need to Know about the Next Pandemic
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ISBN: 9780470038642

ISBN-10: 0470038640

ISBN-13: 9780470038642

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marc Siegel

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"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say." -Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker "Siegel cuts through the hype about the 2deadly2 this and the 2lethal2 that, and applies reason in seeking the answers." -John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History "Timely and needed. At such times, we need soothsayers and explicators to redirect the ready-fire-aim mindset. Siegel2s book fulfills this role well." -The Journal of the American Medical Association As bird flu sweeps through Asia, the rest of the world has begun to…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.48" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Facts and Fictions



Bird Flu Basics



The History of Bird Flu



Spanish Flu versus Swine Flu



A Bird's-Eye View



Tamiflu and the Bird Flu Vaccine



The Evolution of Bird Flu Concerns



Our Culture of Fear



Sart



The Other Flu



Do We Know a Pandemic When We See One? AIDS versus Bird Flu



Perspectives


Bibliography