title: Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
author: Michael C. LeMay
description: Gr 9 UpDense with information, this exploration of global pandemic threats begins with an examination of several major diseases that have greatly affected the course of history, such as yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, plague, influenza, and trachoma. Subsequent chapters consider topics related to past and present outbreaks of disease so as to better understand how to grapple with future threats. "Problems, Controversies, and Solutions" addresses many problematic issues (for example, political agendas hamper efforts, and preventive medicine is often ignored), while "Perspectives" includes viewpoints from individuals working with organizations conducting humanitarian work. Other experts in the field of public health offer views about subjects such as the importance of vaccines and the threat of Aedes Mosquito-borne diseases as a result of air travel. Another chapter features brief biographical profiles of individuals who played a key role in addressing epidemic and pandemic threats both historical (Walter Reed, Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner) and current (Paul Farmer, Keiji Fukuda, Tom Frieden). Short descriptions of major organizations (for instance, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the UN World Health Organization, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) are listed as well as key data and primary source documents concerning health-related policy. The final chapter consists of resources including scholarly books and journals, films, and videos. This work contains extensive footnotes and references, and teens and adults searching for comprehensive content on various topics relating to the issue of global pandemic threats need look no further. VERDICT A go-to resource for paper writing and a jumping-off point for more in-depth academic research.Ragan O'Malley, Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn
zlib_text: APRIL 25TH–MAY 1ST 2020
  A pandemic of power grabs
  What next for the car industry? 
  How to scale up testing 
  The solace of Tolstoy
  After the disease,
  the debt
  
  The Economist April 25th 2020
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  Contents
  The world this week
  5 A summary of political
  and business news
  Leaders
  7 Public ﬁnances
  After the disease, the debt
  8 Regimes under covid-19 
  Power grabs
  9 Carmakers in trouble
  Pimp the ride
  9 Migrants and the virus
  Essential workers
  10 Climate change
  An Earth Day in the life
  of a plague
  Letters
  13 On wet markets,
  Thailand, abortion,
  covid-19, house names,
  management
  Brieﬁng
  14 Covid-19 and public
  ﬁnances
  Undercut
  United States
  17 Reopening America
  18 Mercury rising
  19 Biological weapons
  20 The Hua-war
  21 Catholic voters
  22 Lexington Oil be back
  The Americas
  23 The Peronist and the
  pandemic
  24 Bolivia’s ﬁne wines
  26 Bello Cuba on the edge
  Asia
  27 Countries that have
  almost beaten covid-19
  28 Sri Lanka’s home-brewers 
  30 India’s costly lockdown
  30 Covid-19 in C