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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs (Paperback)
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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs (Paperback)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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The USA Today Bestseller 'The infectious disease expert who
predicted the spread of coronavirus' - Daily Mail 'Osterholm has
produced a sharp, persuasive and urgent manifesto for how the world
needs to think differently about natural threats, offering a
blueprint for setting priorities and explaining why the
infrastructure of global health needs reconfiguring... Deadliest
Enemy will help to set the terms of that essential post-coronavirus
conversation.' - Financial Times Unlike natural disasters, whose
destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of
days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited
to individuals and their families, infectious disease has the
terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale,
overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and
transportation to a grinding halt. In today's world, it's easier
than ever to move people, animals, and materials around the planet,
but the same advances that make modern infrastructure so efficient
have made epidemics and even pandemics nearly inevitable. And as
outbreaks of COVID-19, Ebola, MERS, and Zika have demonstrated, we
are woefully under-prepared to deal with the fallout. So what can -
and must - we do in order to protect ourselves from mankind's
deadliest enemy? Drawing on the latest medical science, case
studies, policy research, and hard-earned epidemiological lessons,
Deadliest Enemy explores the resources and programs we need to
develop if we are to keep ourselves safe from infectious disease.
The authors show how we could wake up to a reality in which many
antibiotics no longer cure, bio-terror is a certainty, and the
threat of a disastrous influenza or coronavirus pandemic looms ever
larger. Only by understanding the challenges we face can we prevent
the unthinkable from becoming the inevitable. Deadliest Enemy is
high scientific drama, a chronicle of medical mystery and
discovery, a reality check and a practical plan of action.
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