Pandemic survival
Subtitle: it's why you're alive
By: Ann Love & Jane Drake ; illustrated by Bill Slavin
Contributors: Drake, Jane, author; Slavin, Bill, illustrator; Swenson, Samantha, editor; Tate, Sue, editor
Publisher: Tundra Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781770492684
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Diseases; Disease Outbreaks; Epidemics; History; Juvenile literature; Communicable diseases
Description: The Black Death. Yellow Fever. Smallpox. History is full of gruesome pandemics, and surviving those pandemics has shaped our society and way of life. Every person today is alive because of an ancestor who survived and surviving our current and new pandemics, like SARS, AIDS, bird flu or a new and unknown disease, will determine our future. "Pandemic Survival" presents in depth information about past and current illnesses; the evolution of medicine and its pioneers; cures and treatments; strange rituals and superstitions; and what we are doing to prevent future pandemics. Full of delightfully gross details about symptoms and fascinating facts about bizarre superstitious behaviors, this book is sure to interest even the most squeamish of readers.
Notes: "Edited by Sue Tate and Samantha Swenson"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Prevention and cure; title: Ancient stories, modern diagnoses; title: The Midddle Ages (600-1500): sin and suffering; title: The Age of Discovery (1500-1800): sickness ship to shore; title: The Industrial Age (1800-1900): prosperity, pollution, and pandemics; title: Antibiotics: before and after; title: Global village.