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Global Flu and You
George Dehner
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Description for Global Flu and You
Hardcover. Influenza pandemics are not a new phenomenon; humans have a long history with the influenza virus. This book traces the origins of the disease and outlines the social and cultural changes that have enabled it to become an endemic threat to human health. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: MJCJ; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
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We all know the signs: chills, fever, sore throat, muscle aches, coughing. But while the flu may seem harmlessly similar to the common cold, influenza results in between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths every year in epidemics that can spread rapidly around the world. In pandemic years, the disease can kill millions.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230283
SKU
V9781780230283
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About George Dehner
George Dehner is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Wichita State University, Kansas. He is author of Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response (2012).
Reviews for Global Flu and You
In this very readable short book, Professor Dehner, a historian with a special interest in the pandemic influenza, provides us with a chronicle of flus emergence as a global health threat . . . very engaging and well written.
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