Epidemics: Detecting, Predicting and Preventing

• Authors : Edward Paige

Subjects: MEDICAL / Public Health

• Abstract: This compilation first describes several methods for glycoengineering the COVID-19 virus to present multiple a-gal epitopes for the amplification of a-gal vaccine efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 ...

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Epidemics : Hate and Compassion From the Plague of Athens to AIDS

• Authors : Samuel K. Cohn Jr

Subjects: Epidemics--Social aspects--History; Epidemics--HistoryHISTORY / World

• Abstract: By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that ...

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Epidemics : Models and Data Using R

• Authors : Ottar N. Bjørnstad

Subjects: Epidemics--Data processing; Communicable diseases--Data processing; R (Computer program language)MEDICAL / Biostatistics; MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases; MEDICAL / Epidemiology

• Abstract: This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. The book offers an easy to follow implementation and analysis of mathematical ...

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Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power Over Humanity

• Authors : Joshua S. Loomis

Subjects: Epidemics--History; Communicable diseases--Social aspects--HistoryHEALTH & FITNESS / General; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / General

• Abstract: This book comprehensively reviews the 10 most influential epidemics in history, going beyond morbid accounts of symptoms and statistics to tell the ...

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Epidemics

• Authors : Hippocrates

Subjects: MEDICAL / General; HEALTH & FITNESS / General; PHILOSOPHY / General

• Abstract: Early in the beginning of spring, and through the summer, and towards winter, many of those who had been long gradually declining, took to bed ...

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Epidemics : The Story of South Africa’s Five Most Lethal Human Diseases

• Authors : Howard Phillips

Subjects: Diseases and history--South Africa; Epidemics--South Africa--HistoryMEDICAL / Health Policy; HISTORY / Africa / General; MEDICAL / General

• Abstract: This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing ...

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Epidemics : Science, Governance and Social Justice

• Authors : Dry, Sarah; Leach, Melissa

Subjects: Epidemics--Political aspects; Epidemics--Social aspects; EpidemicsMEDICAL / Preventive Medicine

• Abstract: Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on

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Epidemics and Pandemics

• Authors : Healey, Justin

Subjects: Communicable diseases; EpidemicsMEDICAL / Infectious Diseases

• Abstract: Explores health, economic and social challenges presented by infectious disease epidemics and pandemics with a focus on COVID-19. Examines how vaccine-preventable ...

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Outbreaks and Epidemics : Battling Infection From Measles to Coronavirus

• Authors : Meera Senthilingam

Subjects: Epidemics--History; Epidemiology; Communicable diseases--TransmissionSCIENCE / Life Sciences / General

• Abstract: A compelling and disquieting journey through the history and science of epidemics. For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections ...

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Epidemics and Society : From the Black Death to the Present

• Authors : Snowden, Frank M.

Subjects: Communicable diseases--History; Communicable diseases--Social aspects; Epidemics--HistoryMEDICAL / Public Health; MEDICAL / History; SCIENCE / History

• Abstract: A “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks The World Economic Forum #1 book to ...

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