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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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There is a war raging that you may not be aware of, the fight to prevent the spread of diseases. Everyday health care professionals are focused on controlling the spread of disease. This book exposes students to the innovatative tools and techniques healthcare professionals use to track, control, and combat the spread of dangerous diseases.
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The ability to use the scientific method is key to carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks. In this book, readers in real-world situations are tasked with following clues and using the scientific method to find out what happens during the spread of an epidemic. Informational text presents evidence and facts in the form of clues and side-bar details to help children develop critical thinking skills. A summary of...
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Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the career of an epidemiologist, discussing the job's typical duties, tools and techniques, education and training, and future outlook. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
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Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ebola Outbreak covers the history of the Ebola virus, the devastating 2014 epidemic, and the quarantine controversies that captured national headlines, exploring how the fear of a disease can sometimes be as dangerous as the disease itself. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This book discusses the science behind pandemics and their effects. The chapters examine the deadliest pandemics in history, explain how these diseases spread so quickly, and show how scientists are working to prevent and contain future disease outbreaks. Diagrams, charts, and photos provide opportunities to evaluate and understand the scientific concepts involved.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.
Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. World-wide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'. The United States recorded 550,000 deaths--five times its total military fatalities in the war-- while European deaths...
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Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...
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