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This volume covers a common infectious disease that afflicts millions every year—the flu—but one that has the potential of being at the center of a new pandemic, similar to the one that killed millions during 1918.
Influenza examines all aspects of this disease, including:
• The influenza virus and how it leads to infection in humans.
• The definition of epidemics and pandemics, and a description of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
• The clinical signs and symptoms of influenza, and how it impacts special populations, such as the elderly and HIV-infected patients
• The treatment and prevention of the flu The volume includes a glossary of important terms and a bibliography of accessible works that discuss the disease.
Published | Oct 30 2008 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 160 |
ISBN | 9780313342608 |
Imprint | Greenwood |
Series | Biographies of Disease |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Devlin, an infectious diseases physician, presents a history of the influenza virus for general readers that looks at the disease from a biographical perspective, introducing germ theory and telling the story of influenza's discovery, characteristics, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, methods of diagnosis, prevention and treatment, and the pandemic of 1918.
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