Title The germ lab : the gruesome story of deadly diseases / written by Richard Platt ; illustrated by John Kelly.

Publication Info.	New York : Kingfisher, [2020]
	©2020

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 614.5 PLATT	Check Shelf

Description	48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Note	Prepublication title: The Book of Hideous Things.
	Previous copyright date of 2011, titled Plagues, Pox, and Pestilence.
	Subtitle from cover.
	Includes index.
Contents	In the germ lab -- Under the microscope -- Disease : how it spreads -- The war on germs -- The rogues' gallery -- Black Death -- The plague spreads! -- "Unclean, unclean!" -- A deadly debate -- The unwell well -- Bug breakthrough -- Death in the air -- Childhood diseases -- Curing the pox -- Fighting back -- A wartime killer -- Famine and blight -- Fungus and fever -- Modern dangers -- X-ray rescue -- The future -- Germ terms.
Summary	Provides a history of disease and pestilence as told from the point of view of the bugs and pests that caused them, from common diseases such as influenza, malaria and tuberculosis to such rare diseases as leprosy, cholera, and bubonic plague.
Subject	Diseases -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Epidemics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Juvenile literature.
	Animals as carriers of disease -- Juvenile literature.
	Diseases.
	Epidemics.
	Communicable diseases.
	Animals as carriers of disease. (OCoLC)fst00809570
	Communicable diseases -- Transmission. (OCoLC)fst00869923
	Diseases. (OCoLC)fst00895158
	Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Kelly, John, 1964- illustrator.
Added Title	Plagues, pox, and pestilence
ISBN	9780753475829
	0753475820

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