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Author Ballard, Carol, author.

Title Pandemics / Carol Ballard.

Publication Info. Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J551 NAT (NATURAL DISASTERS)    Storage
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 614.4 BALLARD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J614.4 BAL    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J HEALTH 614.4 WOR    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J614.4 B21P    Check Shelf
Edition Third edition.
Description 55 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm.
Series World Book's library of natural disasters
World Book's library of natural disasters.
Audience Age 5-11.
Note Includes glossary and index.
At head of title: Library of natural disasters.
Contents 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.
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.
Subject Epidemics -- Juvenile literature.
Communicable diseases -- Juvenile literature.
Communicable diseases. (OCoLC)fst00869883
Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN 9780716699385 (hardcover)
0716699389 (hardcover)
9780716699286 (set)
0716699281 (set)
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