WHO / World Health Organization
Efforts must be intensified to control Zimbabwe cholera outbreak New web site with information on WHO programmes and health issues in Viet Nam. Available in English and Vietnamese. Joint WHO-UNICEF report on the five most important causes of ... [... more]
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The Australian Plague Locust Commission (APLC) is responsible for monitoring locust populations in inland eastern Australia and for controlling outbreaks (to an acceptable level) that have the potential to inflict significant damage to ... [... more]
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Richard Adams
Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, including Watership Down (1974), Shardik (1976), The Plague Dogs (1978), The Girl in a Swing (1980), Maia (1985), and Traveller (1988), as well as several works of nonfiction, including his ... [... more]
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Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri S. Tepper is the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, including The Companions, The Visitor, The Fresco, Singer from the Sea, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, and Beauty, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Norman F. Cantor
Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. His many books include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
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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Marilyn Chase
The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The Black Death in Victorian San ... [... more]
Random House |
David Lee Stone
The Duke of Dulwich is in distress--several reports are coming in that the city is beginning to be overrun by a plague of rats. Naturally he has killed off all witnesses, but daily the problem is becoming more obvious. His corrupt council, led by ... [... more]
Random House |
HortNews - Mite Takes Buzz Out Of Waikato's Beehives
Beekeepers say about 200 of their colleagues in the Waikato could be out of business early next year, victims of plummeting honey production and the plague of bee-killing varroa jacobsoni mites. AUCKLAND 17/7/2001 - Beekeepers say about 200 of ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Maja Visenjak-Limon
A deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult world-particularly the mistreatment of animals. Ira struggles to reconcile her ... [... more]
Random House |
Kazuaki Yanagisawa
An evil dragon and seven powerful magi scheme to control King Guin by using the plague and other calamities to lure him out of Cheironia. Aided by a priestess and an elder mage, the mighty leopard-masked warrior battles to save Cheironia from ... [... more]
Random House |
Robert Llewelyn
The Duke of Dulwich is in distress--several reports are coming in that the city is beginning to be overrun by a plague of rats. Naturally he has killed off all witnesses, but daily the problem is becoming more obvious. His corrupt council, led by ... [... more]
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