How to survive a pandemic

A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them.

Book - 2020

614.5 Gre

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ISBN: 9781250793232
Physical Description xxi, 568 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition First Flatiron Books paperback edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.

General Note:	"An earlier version of this book was previously published in 2006 under the title Bird flu by Lantern Books. This version is updated to reflect the events since then through 2020."--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Storm gathering --- When animal viruses attack -- Pandemic preparedness -- Surviving the COVID-19 pandemic -- Surviving the next pandemic -- Preventing future pandemics.

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How to Survive a Pandemic

by Greger, Michael

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Preface	p. ix
	Prologue	p. xi
	Introduction	p. 1
I	Storm Gathering	p. 5
	1918	p. 5
	Master of Metamorphosis	p. 18
	H 5 N 1	p. 33
	Playing Chicken	p. 44
	Worse Than 1918?	p. 55
	When, Not If	p. 68
II	When Animal Viruses Attack	p. 77
	The Third Age	p. 77
	Man-Made	p. 85
	Livestock Revolution	p. 99
	Tracing the Flight Path	p. 124
	One Flu Over the Chicken's Nest	p. 151
	Coming Home to Roost	p. 172
	Guarding the Henhouse	p. 199
III	Pandemic Preparedness	p. 215
	Cooping Up Bird Flu	p. 223
	Race Against Time	p. 223
	Lessons Unlearned	p. 234
IV	Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic	p. 239
	Pumping the Brakes	p. 239
	Treating and Avoiding COVID-19	p. 244
	How COVID-19 Ends	p. 265
V	Surviving the Next Pandemic	p. 269
	Our Health in Our Hands	p. 269
	Be Prepared	p. 283
	Pandemic Flu Planning Checklist	p. 298
VI	Preventing Future Pandemics	p. 302
	Tinderbox	p. 303
	Reining in the Pale Horse	p. 319
	Afterword	p. 341
	Acknowledgments	p. 345
	References	p. 347