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1) The hot zone
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Language
English
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Description
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The book tells this dramatic story, giving an account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race.
3) Outbreak
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Dustin Hoffman plays Sam Daniels, a take-charge army virologist trying to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
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Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity's place in the world. Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor...
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Language
English
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Description
The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Public health expert Paul Farmer describes the historical origins of the 2014 Ebola epidemic"--
In 2014 a devastating virus spread through West Africa, prompting fear and panic around the world. The Ebola crisis resulted in loss of life and economic disruption on a grand scale-- and yet this outcome was by no means inevitable. Farmer experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand, and here he offers the first substantive, on-the-ground account of this...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed science writer and explorer David Quammen first came near the Ebola virus while he was traveling in the jungles of Gabon, accompanied by local men whose village had been devastated by a recent outbreak. Here he tells the story of Ebola -- its past, present, and its unknowable future.
11) Zona caliente
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Zona caliente fue escrito y publicado en 1994 para explicar los orígenes y la evolución del virus ébola y advertir del peligro de su propagación en el futuro. Su autor, Richard Preston, catedrático de la Universidad de Princeton y un destacado especialista en abordar temas científicos con un alto nivel de rigor y conocimiento de la materia -- ha sido galardonado con el Premio del Instituto de Física de Estados Unidos y Zona caliente es lectura...
12) The ebola virus
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Learn about the dangerous ebola virus and the disease it causes.
13) Ebola
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
14) Ebola
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An examination of the ebola virus, its African origins, and the development of this and other similar emerging diseases.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose...
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The story of Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly's call to serve their neighbors, as well as Kent's fight for life against Ebola, and Amber's struggle to support him from half a world away. Dr. Brantly reminds readers of the risk, honor, and joy to be known when God and others are served without reservation." --
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Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa killed more than 10,000 people, was the largest Ebola outbreak in history, and terrified people around the world. But what, exactly, is Ebola? What are the symptoms? How is it spead? How is it treated? This text explains this disease and how the latest epidemic changed the way we look at viruses forever"--
20) Ebola
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Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Ebola virus was discovered in Africa in the 1970s. Since then, it has caused several . . . outbreaks. In some of them, more than half of the infected people died. [This book] explores the history and science behind this disease, as well as how it's treated"--Google Books.