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Pandemics / Carol Ballard.

Ballard, Carol, (author.).

Summary:

"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780716699385
  • ISBN: 0716699389
  • Physical Description: 55 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm.
  • Edition: Third edition.
  • Publisher: Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes glossary and index.
At head of title: Library of natural disasters.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
Age 5-11.
1110L Lexile

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Epidemics > Juvenile literature.
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