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Author
Language
English
Description
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Susan is a scientist whose research has caused her to neglect virtually everything else in her life, including love. That is until she meets Michael, a talented chef, and suddenly everything starts to change, not just in Susan's life, but in the entire world. While Susan and Michael are experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling, all around the globe a new epidemic is causing people to lose their sensory perceptions.
5) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Say a patient dies from a terrible disease that no one can identify. That's a job for experts in infectious diseases, who study the patient's blood and body fluids and try to identify the disease and stop it from claiming more lives!
10) Containment
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a gruesome new tick-borne virus breaks out near a major U.S. city and the outbreak is traced to an extremist group in Southeast Asia, the race to stop a global bioterrorism conspiracy is on. Government epidemiologist Mariah Rossi must leave the safety of her lab to help fellow scientist and covert CIA agent Curt Kennedy track the disease back to its source. Their worldwide net leads them to an underground lab in the jungles of the Philippines,...
Author
Publisher
Turner Pub
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Personal account of the author's work in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that he created at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta battling such viruses as Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hermorrhagic Fever, and AIDS and searching for weapons with which to combat them.
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