Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR)
Cumulative number of reported suspect and probable cases (SARS) Cumulative Number of Reported Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Cumulative Number of Reported Probable § Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Cumulative ... [... more]
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Flu (influenza) - immunisation
Influenza, or flu, is an epidemic disease that causes widespread illness every year. Influenza immunisation is recommended for people in known high-risk groups including everyone aged over 65, hospital patients and staff, some Kooris and Torres ... [... more]
Better Health |
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR)
Any infectious agents or toxic chemical could in theory be engineered for deliberate use as a weapon. Experts in this field believe that smallpox, anthrax, botulism and plague are the pathogens most likely to be used. However, most if not all ... [... more]
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Cameron Stauth
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these ... [... more]
Random House |
Monique Robinson
Healing from the Pain of an Absent or Emotionally Distant Father The absence of fathers is an epidemic plaguing our society, affecting families from every corner of our world and from all walks of life. Whether our fathers left us entirely during ... [... more]
Random House |
Gay Salisbury
The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men In a Race Against an Epidemic The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes ... [... more]
Random House |
George R. Stewart
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world ... [... more]
Random House |
Richard Tristman
From the best-selling How We Die by Sherwin Nuland to our fascination with serial murders, from the AIDS epidemic to the concerns of our aging population, America continues to express a widespread curiosity about death and dying. In The Grim ... [... more]
Random House |
Chris Burns
Myla Goldberg, David Aaron Baker, Chris Burns and Ilyana Kadushin The triumphant follow-up to the bestselling is an epic but intimate novel about a young Irish-American woman facing down tragedy during the Great Flu epidemic of 1918. leads us ... [... more]
Random House |
Enrique Gratas
El Arte de la Infidelidad by nationally-known Univision journalist Enrique Gratas, talks about the growing epidemic of infidelity. Gratas has the unique ability to talk about this taboo subject in ways that both enlighten and inform. His global ... [... more]
Random House |
Margot Dionne
The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men In a Race Against an Epidemic The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes ... [... more]
Random House |
Eileen Behan
THE TIME TO ENCOURAGE HEALTHY EATING HABITS AND SMART FOOD CHOICES FOR YOUR CHILD IS NOW. Unhealthy food is everywhere-colorfully packaged, cheap, and full of fat, calories, and sodium. It's no wonder childhood obesity has become an epidemic in ... [... more]
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