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Biography & Autobiography.
Medical.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases-and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat-Ebola, SARS, Zika-seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan.In his long career as a public health first responder-protected by a thin mask from infected patients, napping under nets to keep out scorpions, making life-and-death decisions on limited, suspect information-Khan has found that rogue microbes will always be a problem, but outbreaks are often caused by people. We make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, fail to imagine the consequences of our actions.The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others-and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic.… (más)
This is an inside account of the fight to contain the world’s deadliest diseases and the panic and corruption that make them even worse. Throughout history, humankind’s biggest killers have been infectious diseases and modern technology enabling a level of globalization prior unimaginable, multiplied their possible disease vectors. We ignored this reality most of the time until the current outbreak of COVID-19, a Corona-type respiratory disease very reminiscent of the 2002 SARS. Ali Khan, MD, MPH, an Assistant Surgeon General, leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) shows us how we make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, on an individual level lack the imagination, information, or even responsibility to react properly to a pandemic threat. Most importantly, he provides the reader with a perspective to compare the current COVID-19 with prior outbreak of related diseases and containment measures then affected. The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, ebola and most importantly SARS for its close realation to COVID-19.
A must read for anybody who understands that one must not - cannot rely on the popular media for perspective and a deep understanding that can lead to the big picture and consequently enables one to react proper to an infectious threat. After all, the media is akin a person that chooses to illuminate with a flashlight a corner of an otherwise dark room and then deceives you, quite purposefully so, into believing you know it all - when in fact you merely know what they want you to know. ( )
A must read for anyone interested in pandemics -- how they happen, how they are fought, what we do right, what we do wrong. Dr Khan has been on the front lines of the fight against pandemics his whole career and he has seen what we have accomplished and how our failures have happened. He raises many questions and has solid, workable solutions. Interesting stories, well told, with much to think about. ( )
A first-hand account of fighting infectious disease by someone who worked at PHS, CDC, and WHO. Hantavirus, SARS, anthrax bioterror, monkeypox, and more. A mix of big picture stuff and personal anecdotes. Does go a bit leftist on politics (anti-climate-change, anti-inequality) vs. strictly scientific, but overall a great book. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To the people and communities worldwide
struggling against infectious diseases,
and to the disease detectives who help protect them
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
As I write this, the news is all about Zika, a mosquito-borne virus newly introduced to the Americas that causes a mild fever in millions of cases, but also microcephaly, a severe birth defect that gives rise to abnormally small heads and brain damage. (Prologue)
We had been in the jungle for about two weeks when a kid on a motorbike rode up and told us that the rebels had overwhelmed government forces and that all these combatants were coming our way: Laurent Kabila’s guerrillas, hot on the heels of Mobutu Sésé Seko’s army. (Chapter 1)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And we will see if Louis Pasteur was right when he said, “Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.”
Biography & Autobiography.
Medical.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases-and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat-Ebola, SARS, Zika-seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan.In his long career as a public health first responder-protected by a thin mask from infected patients, napping under nets to keep out scorpions, making life-and-death decisions on limited, suspect information-Khan has found that rogue microbes will always be a problem, but outbreaks are often caused by people. We make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, fail to imagine the consequences of our actions.The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others-and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic.
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Throughout history, humankind’s biggest killers have been infectious diseases and modern technology enabling a level of globalization prior unimaginable, multiplied their possible disease vectors. We ignored this reality most of the time until the current outbreak of COVID-19, a Corona-type respiratory disease very reminiscent of the 2002 SARS.
Ali Khan, MD, MPH, an Assistant Surgeon General, leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) shows us how we make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, on an individual level lack the imagination, information, or even responsibility to react properly to a pandemic threat. Most importantly, he provides the reader with a perspective to compare the current COVID-19 with prior outbreak of related diseases and containment measures then affected.
The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, ebola and most importantly SARS for its close realation to COVID-19.
A must read for anybody who understands that one must not - cannot rely on the popular media for perspective and a deep understanding that can lead to the big picture and consequently enables one to react proper to an infectious threat. After all, the media is akin a person that chooses to illuminate with a flashlight a corner of an otherwise dark room and then deceives you, quite purposefully so, into believing you know it all - when in fact you merely know what they want you to know. (