Anna Claybourne

Pandemic Planet

How diseases impact our world (and what you can do to help stop their spread)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important look at viruses and pandemics, what they are, how they spread and how we deal with them

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette Children's Group
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 283mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9781445180717
• ISBN-10: 1445180715
• Artikelnr.: 62081692

Autorenporträt

Anna Claybourne has written over 150 children's books on all kinds of subjects, from sharks, black holes and splitting the atom to how to draw, Shakespeare's life, and Greek myths and legends. She knows a lot about conservation in the rain forests of Costa Rica as she once volunteered there for three months. She likes space, sewing and music, plays the trombone and loves going camping.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Worldwide crisis
2: What does 'pandemic' mean?
3: Germs and diseases
4: Pandemics of the past
5: CASE STUDY: The Black Death
6: Immunity
7: The early stages
8: Out of control
9: CASE STUDY: The 1918-19 flu pandemic
10: Lockdown!
11: Pandemic problems
12: CASE STUDY: Covid-19
13: Finding a solution
14: Back to normal
15: Preventing and preparing
16: What can you do?
17: Antibiotics alert!
18: CASE STUDY: Antibiotic-resistant TB
19: Pandemic planet?
20: The positives
21: Glossary
22: Further reading
23: Index

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• 1: Worldwide crisis
• 2: What does 'pandemic' mean?
• 3: Germs and diseases
• 4: Pandemics of the past
• 5: CASE STUDY: The Black Death
• 6: Immunity
• 7: The early stages
• 8: Out of control
• 9: CASE STUDY: The 1918-19 flu pandemic
• 10: Lockdown!
• 11: Pandemic problems
• 12: CASE STUDY: Covid-19
• 13: Finding a solution
• 14: Back to normal
• 15: Preventing and preparing
• 16: What can you do?
• 17: Antibiotics alert!
• 18: CASE STUDY: Antibiotic-resistant TB
• 19: Pandemic planet?
• 20: The positives
• 21: Glossary
• 22: Further reading
• 23: Index