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Pandemics / writer, Carol Ballard ; illustrator, Stefan Chabluk.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780716699385 (hardback)
Name	Ballard, Carol author.
Title	Pandemics / writer, Carol Ballard ; illustrator, Stefan Chabluk.
Edition	3rd edition.
Published	Chicago, IL : World Book, [2018]
Published	©2018
Description	55 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	What is a pandemic? -- What causes infectious diseases? -- How do microorganisms multiply and survive? -- How do infectious diseases spread? -- How do microorganisms affect human beings? -- Why do pandemics occur? -- Population changes and pandemics -- The course of a pandemic -- The Black Death -- Cholera pandemics -- Stages of a pandemic -- Pandemic! -- The influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 -- HIV and AIDS -- Preventing a pandemic -- SARS -- Avian influenza -- Swine flu -- Ebola, the next pandemic? -- Zika.
Summary	"A discussion of pandemics, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant pandemics and other disease outbreaks from history"--
Target audience note	Age 5-11.
Subjects	Epidemics -- Juvenile literature
Subjects	Communicable diseases -- Juvenile literature
Other Names	Chabluk, Stefan illustrator.
Series	World Book's library of natural disasters
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Communicable diseases -- Juvenile literature . Epidemics -- Juvenile literature . Authors: Ballard, Carol . Chabluk, Stefan . Series: World Book's library of natural disasters .