How Viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work.
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..
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.
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.
Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics.
How Viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work
