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020			_a9780393254754 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0393254755 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1037811053
035			_a(coutts)cts22523498
040			_aDNLM/DLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dNLM _dOCLCO _dOCLCA _dTOH _dMJ8 _dOCLCF _dIFK _dWYG _dUAP _dCaONFJC _dMiTN
042			_apcc
050		4	_aRA650.5 _bH665 2019
100	1		_aHonigsbaum, Mark,
245	1	4	_aThe pandemic century : _bone hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris / _cMark Honigsbaum.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a450 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 375-419) and index.
505	0		_aSharks and other predators -- The blue death -- Plague in the City of Angels -- The great parrot fever pandemic -- The "Philly killer" -- Legionnaires' redux -- AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa -- SARS: "super spreader"-- Ebola at the borders -- Z is for Zika -- Epilogue: The pandemic century.
520			_aChronicles the last century of scientific struggle against deadly contagious disease--from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic to the recent SARS, Ebola and Zika epidemics--examining related epidemiological mysteries and the role of disease in exacerbating world conflicts.
650		0	_aEpidemics _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCommunicable diseases _xHistory _y20th century.
650	1	2	_aPandemics _xhistory.
650	2	2	_aHistory, 20th Century.
650	2	2	_aHistory, 21st Century.
999			_c505702 _d505702