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1) The 1918 influenza pandemic

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Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.

2) American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

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Bristow, Nancy

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Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It sheds light on the social and cultural history of Americans...

3) America's forgotten pandemic: the influenza of 1918

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Crosby, Alfred W

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5) Be a virus warrior!: a kid's guide to keeping safe

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Macgregor, Eloise

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"Facts about coronaviruses are paired with essential information about social distancing, personal hygiene, and the things we can control in uncertain times, creating a learning experience designed to reduce anxiety"--OCLC.

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7) The companions: a novel

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Flynn, Katie M

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"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the "companionship" program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers...

8) Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect Your Mental Health: A Psychological Toolkit

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Kelly, Brendan

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How worried should I be? What information can I trust? What should I tell the children? Can I survive the panic, let alone the virus?
These are certainly challenging, unprecedented times. Allow pre-eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brendan Kelly to help you understand and cope with the unique stresses of today, as we all try to deal with the threat of COVID-19 within our homes, communities and throughout the world.
The anxiety associated...

9) Coronavirus: A Book for Children

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Scheffler, Axel

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"An elegant, effective work. Download this now, read it immediately, share it with everyone you know." —School Library Journal (starred review)
This informative and accessible guide for young readers defines the coronavirus, explains why everyday routines have been disrupted, and lays out how everyone can do their part to help. With child-appropriate answers and explanations, the book addresses key questions, like: How do

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10) coronavirus a guide to understanding the virus and

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11) Coronavirus Super-Simplified: Super-Simplified, #1

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Gupta, Dr Sanjay

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Super-Simplified

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This book is part of a "Super-Simplified" series in response to the "informational overload," that the web (and the "authorities") has inadvertently provided us. The author thus intends to "translate" the experts' complex research, and public domain-guidelines, for a diverse array of important topics, into what the author very literally labels as "IN PLAIN ENGLISH..." (translations).

This book's objective is not to contradict the "authorities,"

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12) Covid

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13) COVID-19: the pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one

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Mackenzie, Debora

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In a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened and how to make sure this never happens again.

14) Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites

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Levitt, Alexandra M

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CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS!
"Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals."—Booklist
This updated edition features a brand new section detailing important facts about the coronavirus and tips for keeping yourself and your family safe.
Despite advances...

15) Diabetes rising: how a rare disease became a modern pandemic, and what to do about it

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Hurley, Dan

16) The dog stars

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Heller, Peter

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Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors.

17) An elegant defense: the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives

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Richtel, Matt

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"A groundbreaking narrative exploration of the human immune system--the key to human health and longevity--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and acclaimed author of A Deadly Wandering"--

18) The end of October

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Wright, Lawrence

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"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...

19) Engineering Solutions for Epidemics and Pandemics

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Rogers, Kara

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Preparing for Disaster

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Although infectious disease outbreaks have long threatened the well-being of human societies, the realization that such epidemics and pandemics can be controlled or even prevented in the first place is recent. With advances in scientific understanding of disease and the development of technologies for the early detection of infectious agents, health agencies are better equipped for disease prevention and surveillance. This volume explores epidemic

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20) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

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Snowden, Frank M

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The Open Yale Courses

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As seen on "60 Minutes": a "brilliant and sobering" (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks
The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak
"Well-written, highly entertaining and relevant."—Financial Times, "Best Books of 2020: Readers' Choice"
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic

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