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Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic
Wiley
January 2006
208 pages ISBN: 0470038640 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Health
As bird flu sweeps through Asia, the rest of the world has
begun to worry that it might spread west and start infecting
humans. As many experts have pointed out, an influenza
pandemic is only a matter of time and that time could be
now. Or is it? In Bird Flu, Dr. Marc Siegel cuts through the
hype, the facts, the fears, and the realities to explain
what has the experts so worried and why there's still plenty
of reason to be calm. Among the questions he answers are: * What is bird flu, and who has it?
* What can I do to protect my family?
* Should I stockpile Tamiflu?
* Will this be like the deadly Spanish flu of 1918?
* Why is there no bird flu vaccine?
* Will the annual flu shot protect me? In his sensible and entertaining style, Siegel looks at the
advances we've made in treatments, the research still to be
done, and the challenges ahead for Asia to lay out a
realistic plan for ending this global threat. While a bird
flu outbreak in the United States may or may not happen this
year, there's still a great deal of work to be done in
readying America for outbreaks of any kind.
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