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Author
Publisher
Healing Arts Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""Explains how to use medicinal herbs and essential oils to fight infectious illness, strengthen the immune system, and combat antibiotic resistance"--Provided by publisher"--
"Explains how to use medicinal herbs and essential oils to fight infectious illness, strengthen the immune system, and combat antibiotic resistance. Presents 18 of the most potent antibiotic and antiviral herbs and one beehive remedy, propolis, detailing how to use them and...
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Ayudantes en COVID-19 brinda una explicación objetiva pero optimista de la pandemia de coronavirus. Este cuento asegura a los chicos que muchas personas, incluyendo niños, están ayudando a combatir el virus que se diseminó por el mundo en 2020." --Page [4] of cover.
23) Coldbrook
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash. With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure is genetic resistance: an uninfected person amongst the...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
Español
Description
"¿Nos libraremos del coronavirus para siempre? De no ser así, ¿cómo vamos a convivir con él? ¿Serán las pandemias más frecuentes a partir de ahora? ¿Dónde deberíamos vivir? ¿Deberíamos almacenar alimentos y bienes de primera necesidad? El doctor Sanjay Gupta, principal asesor médico de la cadena de televisión CNN y figura de referencia en las redes para millones de estadounidenses durante el confinamiento, ha seguido el avance de la...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Become an eyewitness to the weird and wonderful ways of our world, from tsunamis to tornadoes, and discover nature's awesome potential with this Eyewitness guide. See how earthquakes, floods and hurricanes affect what lies in their path, and what measures we can use to protect ourselves from Mother Nature. Follow the journey of some of the most catastrophic disasters, and witness the rescue operations that followed. Learn, too, about the equipment...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Factual yet simple text about the rise of COVID-19, how it spreads, and steps we can take to avoid spreading disease to others. Colorful diagrams show how viruses enter a host and replicate in cells, and explain how lower-respiratory illnesses affect people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
" From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities...
32) The kissing bug: a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas -- or the kissing bug disease -- is more prevalent in the United...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A microbiologist describes his adventure-filled career, discussing his time spent in Central Africa in the 1970s identifying the Ebola virus and his work there again in the 1980s as part of the area's first international AIDS efforts.
36) Game : Pandemic
Publisher
Z-Man Games
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this game, players collaborate as members of a disease-fighting team combating four deadly diseases. The team travels around the world to stop the infection and develop resources for the cures. Players win by discovering cures for the four diseases, but lose if they do cannot do so fast enough or if they fail to effectively keep the number of infections in check.
37) Silver
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press L.L.C
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This trip to the "Vacationland" of Maine -- where the state motto is I Lead -- offers an inspiring tale of civility and purpose, of doing the right thing and not just surviving, but prevailing. The first woman to serve as governor of Maine, Janet Mills, had been in office a year when COVID-19 reached the United States. The recently-widowed 72-year-old wrote in her journal there is "no playbook for a pandemic" as she imposed unprecedented restrictions...
39) Perfect sense
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Susan is a scientist whose research has caused her to neglect virtually everything else in her life, including love. That is until she meets Michael, a talented chef, and suddenly everything starts to change, not just in Susan's life, but in the entire world. While Susan and Michael are experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling, all around the globe a new epidemic is causing people to lose their sensory perceptions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The coronavirus disease COVID-19 emerged in November 2019. By March 2020, cities all around the world closed schools, offices, restaurants, and other public spaces deemed "non-essential" in an attempt to contain the fast-spreading virus. People struggled to follow government orders, stay indoors, and limit contact with others. But the virus that caused one of the world's deadliest pandemics eventually killed over two million people worldwide. This...
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