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Christopher Dye is the Director of Strategy in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization, Geneva. He has been the Gresham Professor of Physic in London and a visiting professor of zoology at the University of Oxford. His work has appeared in many publications including Science, Nature and The Lancet.
Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human...
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Entre enero y marzo de 2020 el mundo tuvo que afrontar un hecho nuevo, inesperado y de consecuencias imprevisibles. El COVID-19 se convirtió en el eje desde el que hubo que pensar la organización económica, las estructuras sociales y las prioridades del año que recién comenzaba. La pandemia implicó un viraje brusco y radical en la vida de las personas y las sociedades, enfrentadas a sus límites y también a sus potencialidades.
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COVID-19: Illness & Illumination, A Hypnotic Exploration recognizes the 2020 pandemic as a cultural, political, and ecological event whose implications go far beyond illness. The author is a physicist, researcher, psychotherapist, and hypnotherapist, who was, infected with the virus and is still, working to recover, six months later. He knows the virus from many angles.
The virus's most lethal aspect is through our own autoimmune reaction to it. The...
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Do you think you suffer from Bronchitis? Do you want to know its symptoms and their impact on your health? In this book you will know what it is, what its symptoms are and many more details that will make you make good decisions, when to seek professional help, since this disease can be fatal.
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This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and consequences of successive pandemics, plagues and epidemics on the course of world history – all through the lens of today's ongoing global experience of COVID 19. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, it first defines what constitutes a pandemic or epidemic then looks at 20 guilty diseases: including cholera, influenza, bubonic plague, leprosy, measles, smallpox, malaria, AIDS, MERS,...
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Mientras se van moderando los ecos de la crisis sanitaria provocada por el covid-19, sus consecuencias económicas y sociales más profundas están todavía lejos de haberse revelado por completo. ¿Qué cambios fueron coyunturales y cuáles significaron transformaciones duraderas que modificarán nuestra imagen y nuestra experiencia de la sociedad argentina? Este libro, que reúne los hallazgos de un verdadero experimento de ciencias sociales en...
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This collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It covers the first phase of the pandemic that will help future scholars to contextualize the history of the present. It includes interpretations by leading scholars in anthropology, food studies, history, media studies, political science, and visual studies, who examine the political, social, economic, and cultural impact of COVID-19 in China, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan,...
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This book is a powerful synthesis of ancient self-healing knowledge that had been buried for centuries, combined with the latest Western body/mind medicine techniques. Dr. Goodman will show you how you can enjoy radiant health and feelings of love and well-being as you learn to reverse toxic thought patterns that block you and your life. Unlock the secrets of how to cure yourself of everything from cancer to heart disease, from emotional pain to mental...
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Mark White was the bubonic plague epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when his wife left him and took the kids to the East Coast. He moved to New York City to be near them and got a job as the hospital epidemiologist at Booth Memorial Medical Center (now the New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital).
Soon he and his nurse epidemiologists faced cases of Acquired Immune Syndrome and a hospital-wide anti-freeze poisoning in...
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This book is a fresh and readable account of the Covid-19 pandemic and how scientists and medical doctors are helping governments to manage the crisis. The book contains interviews and exchanges with dozens of scientists, doctors, experts, government representatives, and journalists. Why do some of the most scientifically advanced countries have the highest Covid-19 mortality? During the pandemic, the research community has been at the heart of-and...
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The coronavirus has caused many areas to enter a state of quarantine, which has led many of us to drastically alter our daily routines in an effort to stay safe and healthy. What should you do to minimize your risk of infection? Check out the top tips from medical professionals and pandemic experts for staying safe in this trying time.
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What's so funny about Coronavirus?
America's top comics bring you a huge collection of hilarious jokes and memes about Coronavirus, quarantine, social distancing, and homeschooling to brighten your quarantine experience!
The Friendly Cop
During quarantine, a police office, saw a man sitting on his front step with a pair of binoculars looking longingly across the street at his neighbor.
The office advised the man in a friendly voice, "I'm sure you...
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For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed. Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico's third-largest city became one of the world's...
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Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host—and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pass, with the outcomes more devastating and consequential than anyone dared to imagine. Nightmare Scenario is the complete story of Donald Trump’s handling—and mishandling—of the COVID-19 catastrophe, during...
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Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public health policies in nations across the globe. As he struggled...
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A clinical infectious diseases specialist based on the Island of Hawai'i, Dr. Jonathan Dworkin has served as an advisor to the mayors of Honolulu and Hawai'i counties during the COVID-19 crisis and has written widely about the state's faltering pandemic response. In Plague Doctors, his front-row seat and hands-on involvement provides invaluable insight into how the state handled-or mishandled-the first eighteen months of the pandemic. In an Afterword,...
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In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold-soon to become the world's largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in river communities of central Haiti, eventually triggering nearly 800,000 cases and 9,000 deaths. What had caused the first cases of cholera in Haiti in recorded...
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Dive into the depths of history and science with "Bubonic Plague Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide," an all-encompassing exploration of one of the most notorious diseases in human history. From the historical accounts of the plague to the identification of symptoms and current global trends, this book provides a comprehensive overview. Uncover the bacterium behind the plague, dispelling myths and presenting facts that form the basis for understanding...
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At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world-from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef-Doherty illuminates birds' role as an...
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The definitive, inside account of the Trump Administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic from White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member, Dr. Deborah Birx.
In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations—was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force...