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| Understanding The Enemy: Infection And Disease | |
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| Catching On to Infectious Diseases | |
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| What Is an Infectious Disease? Major Outbreaks: Epidemics and Pandemics | |
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| Major Public Health Challenges | |
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| The Threat of New Diseases | |
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| Catching On to the Cycles | |
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| A History of Infectious Diseases | |
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| Disease and Development Go Hand in Hand | |
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| Epidemics: The Downside of Travel | |
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| Fighting Infection: The Early Years | |
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| Early Theories on Causes of Infection | |
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| Germ Theory: The Real Story | |
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| The Search for Cures | |
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| Other Twentieth-Century Advances | |
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| Antibiotic Resistance: A Warning Among the Advances | |
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| Outlook for the Future | |
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| The Nature of Infectious Organisms | |
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| Bacteria: 3.5 Billion Years Old and Still Kicking | |
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| Coming in Contact | |
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| Fungal Infections | |
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| Parasites: Organisms That Cannot Survive on Their Own | |
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| Viruses: Tiny but Dangerous | |
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| Protozoa: Single-Celled Organisms That Cause Multiple Diseases | |
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| Worms, Worms, Worms | |
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| Prions: The Smallest Disease-Causers | |
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| The Immune Response: How Our Bodies Fight Infections | |
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| The Infection Process | |
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| Our First Lines of Defense | |
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| Innate Immune Response: The Body's Foot Soldiers | |
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| Special Forces in Action: The Adaptive Immune Response | |
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| Immune System Memory: Long-Lasting Protection from Reinfection | |
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| Diagnosis and Treatment: Your Doctor's One-Two Punch Against Infection | |
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| Diagnosis: The First Step to Getting Better | |
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| Cultures: The Art of Growing Diseases | |
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| The PCR Revolution | |
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| Treating Diseaseï¿½Ç None Too Kindly | |
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| Antibiotics: Natural Weapons Against Bacterial Diseases | |
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| Treating Viral Infection | |
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| Dealing with Fungi and Parasites | |
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| Prevention Is the Best Medicine | |
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| Epidemics of the Past | |
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| Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror | |
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| The Black Death: Bubonic Plague | |
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| Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic | |
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| Raging Epidemics | |
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| A Modern Pandemic: HIV/AIDS | |
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| The Birth of a Disease | |
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| From Epidemic to Pandemic | |
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| Where Did HIV Come From? First Human HIV Infection | |
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| Early Anti-HIV Therapy | |
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| You've Got to Have HAART | |
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| Diagnosing HIV Infection | |
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| HIV Vaccine: The Holy Grail of Containment | |
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| Natural Resistance to HIV Infection | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| A Disease Without Boundaries: Tuberculosis | |
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| An Ancient Scourge That Still Kills Today | |
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| Tuberculosis: Airborne Nightmare | |
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| Treating TB | |
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| TB Is a Global Peril | |
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| Factors Contributing to the Rise of TB | |
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| Still Going Strong After All These Years: Malaria | |
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| A Brief History of Malaria | |
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| A Nasty Parasite | |
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| Transmission: Mosquito Marauder and a Deadly Cycle | |
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| Fever and Ague: Malaria's Symptoms | |
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| Sickle Cell Anemia: Natural Resistance at a Price | |
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| Diagnosing Malaria | |
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| A Frustrating, Yet Curable, Disease | |
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| Malaria's Many Costs | |
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| Prevention and Cure | |
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| Efforts to Combat Malaria | |
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| A Malaria Vaccine? | |
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| Sleeping with the Enemy: Sexually Transmitted Diseases | |
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| Our Current Situation | |
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| Reducing the Chance of Infection | |
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| Chlamydia: The Most Common STD | |
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| Genital Herpes: Lifelong Infection | |
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| Genital Warts and HPV | |
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| Syphilis: A Sexual Scourge with a Long History | |
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| Yet Another Nasty STD: Gonorrhea | |
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| An Alphabet Soup of Infections: Viral Hepatitis | |
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| Hepatitis A: Thriving in Unsanitary Conditions | |
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| Hepatitis E: The Hepatitis A Copycat | |
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| Hepatitis B: 300 Million Carriers and Growing | |
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| Hepatitis C: The Silent Killer | |
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| Hepatitis G: The New Virus on the Block | |
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| Hepatitis H, I, and J? | |
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| Hot Viruses And Other Killer Bugs | |
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| Not-So-Fun Fungal Infections | |
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| The Fungus Among Us | |
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| When a Good Thing Goes Bad | |
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| Types of Infection | |
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| Fungal Infections of the Skin | |
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| Fighting Fungus | |
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| Watery Deaths: Cholera and Dysentery | |
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| Cholera: Scourge of the Poor | |
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| Epidemic Dysentery | |
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| Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases | |
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| Yellow Fever | |
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| Dengue | |
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| West Nile Encephalitis | |
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| Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | |
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| Lyme Disease | |
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| Preying on the Young: Childhood Diseases | |
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| Why the Young? The Polio Panic | |
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| A Pox on the Young: Chickenpox | |
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| "Mommy, My Ear Hurts" | |
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| Measly Measles | |
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| Down in the Dumps with Mumps | |
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| The "R" in MMR: Rubella | |
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| Deadly Diphtheria | |
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| Pertussis, or Whooping Cough | |
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| Terrifying Tetanus | |
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| The Importance of Childhood Vaccination | |
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| The Common Cold | |
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| Kiss and Tell: Infectious Mononucleosis | |
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| Vacationers' Nightmares: Tropical Diseases | |
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| Leishmaniasis: The Sand Fly's Bug | |
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| Giardiasis: A One-Celled Wonder | |
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| Schistosomiasis: Snail Fever | |
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| African Sleeping Sickness | |
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| River Blindness | |
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| Meals You'll Never Forget: Food-Borne Diseases | |
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| coli 0157:H7 | |
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| It's a Mouthful: Camphylobacter | |
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| Salmonella (No, It's Not Named After the Fish) | |
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| Deadly Shigella | |
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| Looking for Listeria | |
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| Trichinosis: It's Not Kosher | |
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| Preventing Food-Borne Illness | |
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| Rare and Terrifying: Ebola and Other Dangerous Diseases | |
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| Blood Gushing Out of Every Orifice: Hemorrhagic Fevers | |
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| Ebola: Africa's Bloody Disease | |
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| Marburg: Not Just a German City | |
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| Hantavirus: Four Corners, United States | |
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| Mad Cow Disease: Crazy Cows | |
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| CJD: Mad Cow's Human Counterpart | |
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| Rabies | |
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| Legionnaire's Disease: A Deadly Convention | |
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| Common Diseases with an Infectious Twist: Ulcers and Viral Cancers | |
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| Taking the Stress out of Stomach Ulcers | |
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| Viral Cancers | |
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| Scourges Of Our Own Creation | |
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| Bioterrorism: Weaponizing Nature | |
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| Bioweapons | |
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| Biological Warfare: A Brief History | |
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| America's Anthrax Nightmare | |
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| Tularemia: Rabbit Fever | |
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| Botulism: Not Just Food Poisoning | |
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| Keeping the Terror at Bay | |
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| Drug-Insensitive Bugs: Antibiotic Resistance | |
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| We Won the Battle, but What About the War? Antibiotic Resistance | |
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| What Can We Do? | |
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| Kicking Patients When They're Down: Hospital Infections | |
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| The New Breed of Uber-Bacteria | |
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| Windows of Opportunity | |
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| How Hospital Infections Spread | |
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| When a Sick Patient Gets Even Sicker | |
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| The Power of Soap and Water | |
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| Tackling a Difficult Problem | |
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| Identifying Infections | |
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| Diagnosing the Future | |
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| Improving Public Health Measures | |
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| Communication Is Key | |
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| The Impact of Genome Sequencing | |
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| Drug Development and the Human Genome | |
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| Gene Therapy | |
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| The Importance of Basic Research | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Disease Diction: A Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |