communicable diseases

A collection of articles that profile the men and women who are working to fight the world's worst diseases, including AIDS, the black plague, and food-borne illnesses.

A collection of essays that explore how disease patterns have changed through human history and describe key epidemics and discoveries and the people involved in them.

Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.

In a dystopian future, most of the population is infected with a plague, expect those who live outside the Safe Land's city walls, but when a mutation in the plague sends city enforcers looking for the uninfected, Levi's village is raided and Levi's fianc?e is taking captive, then Levi launches a war against the city in an attempt to free her before it's too late.

Provides invaluable information for people with herpes, health care professionals, educators, and anyone who is or plans to be sexually active, whether those plans include one lifetime partner or a hundred partners.

Examines the dangers of infections, infestations, and diseases, describing how infections and disease are spread, and discussing treatment and prevention options, along with ways to eliminate emerging diseases before they can reach a population.

Thomas Hunter, having enjoyed a fifteen-year respite from the dreams that had him going to sleep in one world and waking in another, once again finds himself caught between two realities--both of which hang on the verge of destruction. Includes a graphic novel adaptation of the book.

Discusses such infectious diseases as rabies, smallpox, AIDS, influenza, and malaria and describes how they are transmitted and treated.

Examines the symptoms and treatment of diphtheria, how it is contracted, historic outbreaks of the disease, and ways to prevent epidemic.

Describes historic discoveries about waterborne diseases such as cholera and the engineering developments that brought these diseases under control in the twentieth century, and discusses twenty-first-century waterborne threats, from links between chlorine treatments and cancer to evolving microorganisms and bioterrorism.