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008 171114s2018 ilu j 001 0 eng
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020 _a9780716699385
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035 _a(OCoLC)1012686709
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050 0 0 _aRA653.5
_b.P365 2018
082 0 0 _a614.4/9
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245 0 0 _aPandemics. /
_cWorld Books.
250 _a3rd edition.
260 _aChicago, IL :
_bWorld Book, Inc.,
_c2018
263 _a1801
300 _a56 pages;
_bcolour illustrations;
_c27.5 cm.
440 _939513
_aWorld Book's library of natural disasters
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aWhat 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.
520 _a"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
521 1 _aAge 5-11.
650 0 _aEpidemics
_vJuvenile literature.
_919921
650 0 _aCommunicable diseases
_vJuvenile literature.
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942 _2ddc
_cJNONFIC
948 _hHELD BY NZWMT - 1 OTHER HOLDINGS
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