UID:
almahu_9948026224702882
Format:
1 online resource (294 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-00523-1
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9786611005238
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1-4294-7868-3
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0-08-049198-7
Content:
In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts. A previously unknown disease was killing up to 80% of the people it infected.The reaction in the area and across the nation mixed fear, lack of information, and the struggles of doctors to save the victims of an unknown killer with hard science and the age old rhythmns of the desert. What came out was the story of a virus that had been killing since man arrived in the American continents, Hantavirus, with deadly relatives across the Americas and acr
Note:
Includes index.
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Front Cover; OF MICE, MEN, AND MICROBES Hantavirus; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. THE HEART OF AMERICA/THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE; CHAPTER 2. AN OUTBREAK OF FEAR; CHAPTER 3. UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY; CHAPTER 4. PUTTING THE PUZZLE TOGETHER; CHAPTER 5. OF MICE AND MEN; CHAPTER 6. AT LAST, A PLAN; CHAPTER 7. HANTAVIRUSES: OUT OF ASIA; CHAPTER 8. OTHER HANTAVIRUSES; CHAPTER 9. THREE BILLION YEARS; CHAPTER 10. ON THE ORIGIN OF VIRUSES; CHAPTER 11. CHANGES, CONCEALMENT, AND TROJAN HORSES; CHAPTER 12. COUSINS; CHAPTER 13. WHAT WE KNOW; CHAPTER 14. HOW TO STOP A VIRUS
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CHAPTER 15. OUTBREAKSAPPENDIX A: Centers for Disease Control Guidelines on Prevention of HPS; APPENDIX B: Sources of Further Information; APPENDIX C: Abbreviations; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-326460-X
Language:
English
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