The next pandemic : on the front lines against humankind's gravest dangers / Ali S. Khan with William Patrick.
"Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat--Ebola, SARS, Zika--seems imminent, we send our best...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat--Ebola, SARS, Zika--seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan. In his long career as a public health first responder--protected by a thin mask from infected patients, napping under nets to keep out scorpions, making life-and-death decisions on limited, suspect information--Khan has found that rogue microbes will always be a problem, but outbreaks are often caused by people. We make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, fail to imagine the consequences of our actions. The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others--and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 275 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610395915 1610395913 |