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Biohazards : humanity's battle with infectious disease /

By: Grady, Sean M, 1965-.
Contributor(s): Tabak, John.
Series: Science & technology in focus: Publisher: New York, NY : Facts On File, 2006Description: xii, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0816046875; 9780816046874.Subject(s): Communicable diseases | Medical microbiology | Bioterrorism | EpidemiologyDDC classification: 614.599
Contents:
Lethality of the very small: Invisible to the human eye -- Where the small things are -- Keeping things under wraps -- Biohazards in the modern world -- Biohazards throughout history: Great plagues -- Epidemics and pandemics of the 20th century -- Early attempts at containment -- From success to stalemate -- Modern-day risks: Biohazards as weaponry -- Biohazards abroad -- Biohazard accidents and biohazard incidents -- Rise of worldwide pathogens -- Drug resistance -- Perception of disease: Microbes on the molecular level -- Microbes as sets of symptoms -- Ecology of microbes.
Continues: Humanity's battle with infectious disease.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 614.599 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0078658
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lethality of the very small: Invisible to the human eye -- Where the small things are -- Keeping things under wraps -- Biohazards in the modern world -- Biohazards throughout history: Great plagues -- Epidemics and pandemics of the 20th century -- Early attempts at containment -- From success to stalemate -- Modern-day risks: Biohazards as weaponry -- Biohazards abroad -- Biohazard accidents and biohazard incidents -- Rise of worldwide pathogens -- Drug resistance -- Perception of disease: Microbes on the molecular level -- Microbes as sets of symptoms -- Ecology of microbes.

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