communicable diseases

"This title reviews what a pandemic is and why it's causing students to learn from home. It also explains the ways distance learning is accomplished and the positive outcomes of learning from home, even if being away from friends and teachers is difficult"--Amazon.

Discusses lethal diseases such as Ebola, cholera, meningitis, plague, and necrotizing fasciitis, and how they are deadly.

Sunday school teacher Rachel Lynde, Felix, and Sara find themselves quarantined with the old curmudgeon, Alexander Abraham.

Although infectious disease outbreaks have long threatened the well-being of human societies, the realization that such epidemics and pandemics can be controlled or even prevented in the first place is recent. With advances in scientific understanding of disease and the development of technologies for the early detection of infectious agents, health agencies are better equipped for disease prevention and surveillance. This volume explores epidemic and pandemic threats and approaches to disease detection, prevention, and surveillance, relating them to concepts that lie at the foundation of STEM education. It also describes the steps readers can take to prepare for disease outbreaks.

"COVID-19 is a highly contagious, potentially deadly disease. By the spring of 2020 it had already infected more than 4 million people worldwide, causing more than 285,000 deaths. Virtually every country on earth reported cases. For the better part of 2020, the disease caused entire countries to all but shut down"--Provided by publisher.

Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell. SEQUEL to "Streams of Babel".

Describes the life of Mary Mallon and the circumstances surrounding her 26-year quarantine.

Articles arranged alphabetically from malaria to zoonoses provide a cross-cultural view on emerging and infectious diseases, discussing historical, cultural, political, economic, and ethical issues.

Articles arranged alphabetically from African sleeping sickness to Lyme disease provide a cross-cultural view on emerging and infectious diseases, discussing historical, cultural, political, economic, and ethical issues.

Collects twenty-five essays from journals, magazines, nonfiction books, government documents, and other sources on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, that debate issues associated with HIV/AIDS from various perspectives, discussing the threat of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, how the spread of the disease can be controlled, and approaches to the epidemic on a global level.