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"Bacteria were the first life on Earth. But what do we really know about them? In this captivating, science-driven book, you'll learn everything you need to know about these often misunderstood--and incredibly interesting--microbes. In this engagingly written and scientifically rigorous book, author and scientist Ludger Wess introduces an eclectic collection of impressive, useful, weird, and dangerous bacterial species. Wess reveals everything he...
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Making Peace with Microbes
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. Good Germs, Bad Germs addresses not only...
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Noted science writer William Sargent delves into the murky, often intertwined worlds of medical research and biological warfare to determine if Covid-19 was, caused by accidents similar to those that have occurred from 1617 to the present.
Sargent reveals that mistakes made in dual use medical research and biological weapons facilities led to tick borne diseases in the United States, smallpox, anthrax and other germ outbreaks in Russia.
He helps...
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"We are more bacteria than we realize, not just in number of cells, but because of the many ways in which bacteria have shaped our history and evolution."
Bacterial Lenses shows how closely related human and bacterial evolution are in a constantly changing world. Medina's goal is to provide the reader with an entertaining and easily accessible guide to understanding the impact of bacteria on our history and everyday lives.
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"This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come in all forms and sizes and inhabit every free-living organism. Parasitism is now, and always has been, a way to survive under changing environmental conditions. From arctic oceans to tropical forests, Scott Gardner, Judy Diamond, and Gabor Racz investigate how parasites survive and evolve, and how they influence and provide stability...
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Le terme tuberculose englobe toutes les manifestations pathologiques susceptibles d'être provoquées dans l'organisme par un agent pathogène bactérien spécifique, le bacille de Koch (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). De toutes les localisations de cette affection, la tuberculose pulmonaire (cf...
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La bactériologie a pris naissance dans le sillage de la chimie, à partir du milieu du XIXe siècle. Elle devait devenir en quelques décennies une science autonome sous l'impulsion de trois savants de génie: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), qui a créé la bactériologie appliquée en...
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Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the most incisive and authoritative book about the search for the source of the virus.
A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into...
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A science-based guide to preventing children's allergies and optimizing gut health
Includes a 9-week meal plan for safely introducing commonly allergic foods
For many families, eczema, asthma, hay fever and food allergies are constant anxieties, sometimes with devastating consequences. But what if there was a way to prevent allergies from the start? What if early lifestyle changes could change your baby's life?
In The Healthy Baby Gut Guide, leading...
10) Typhoid Mary
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From 1900 to 1907, Mary Mallon, a.k.a. "Typhoid Mary" worked as a cook in the New York City area for seven families, leaving without notice each time a family would become infected with typhoid.
In late 1906, one family hired a typhoid researcher named Dr. George Soper (1870-1948) to investigate. He believed Mallon might have been the source of the outbreak. Soper went to work.
In 1917, Soper would publish a short 20-page work titled "Typhoid Mary,"...
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Pandemics cannot be eliminated, but they can be stopped; the trick is discovering what will curtail any one particular outbreak. Renowned environmentalist and science writer Albert Bates presents an easy-to-understand scientific overview of the global consequences of pandemics and offers a fresh perspective on how we can coexist with them, individually and collectively. Bates recounts the history of deadly pandemics and provides a basic explanation...