TY - BOOK TI - Pandemics. SN - 9780716699385 AV - RA653.5 .P365 2018 U1 - 614.4/9 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Chicago, IL : PB - World Book, Inc., KW - Epidemics KW - Juvenile literature KW - Communicable diseases N1 - Includes index; What is a pandemic? -- What causes infectious diseases? -- How do microorganisms multiply and survive? -- How do infectious diseases spread? -- How do microorganisms affect human beings? -- Why do pandemics occur? -- Population changes and pandemics -- The course of a pandemic -- The Black Death -- Cholera pandemics -- Stages of a pandemic -- Pandemic! -- The influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 -- HIV and AIDS -- Preventing a pandemic -- SARS -- Avian influenza -- Swine flu -- Ebola, the next pandemic? -- Zika; Age 5-11 N2 - "A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"-- ER -