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Author Chakraborty, Arup, author.

Title Viruses, pandemics, and immunity / Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw ; illustrated by Philip J.S. Stork.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
©2020

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.58 CHAKRABORTY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  614.58 CHAKRABORTY    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  614.58 CHA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series MIT Press first reads
MIT Press first reads.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Conquering a pandemic that raged from antiquity to the eighteenth century -- Discovery of infectious disease-causing microbes and the dawn of the modern era of vaccines -- Viruses and the emergence of pandemics -- Immunity -- Spread and mitigation of pandemics -- Antiviral therapies -- Vaccines.
Summary "Informed and accessible overview of viruses and pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work to form the foundation of public health"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Epidemics.
Epidemics -- Prevention.
Immunity.
Vaccines.
Pandemics. (DNLM)D058873
Viruses -- pathogenicity. (DNLM)D014780Q000472
Immunity. (DNLM)D007109
Vaccines. (DNLM)D014612
Virus Diseases -- drug therapy. (DNLM)D014777Q000188
Added Author Shaw, Andrey S., author.
Stork, Philip J. S., illustrator.
ISBN 9780262542388 (paperback)
0262542382 (paperback)
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