Viruses, pandemics, and immunity / Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw ; illustrated by Philip J.S. Stork.
Material type: TextSeries: MIT Press first readsPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]Description: xi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262542388
- 0262542382
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work.
Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work-- concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conquering a pandemic that raged from antiquity to the eighteenth century -- Discovery of infectious disease-causing microbes and the dawn of the modern era of vaccines -- Viruses and the emergence of pandemics -- Immunity -- Spread and mitigation of pandemics -- Antiviral therapies -- Vaccines.
"Informed and accessible overview of viruses and pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work to form the foundation of public health."-- Provided by publisher.