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[2022]
Description
"In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing...
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Shanahan match volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When a St. Louis Irish matchmaker pairs a shy young woman who spends her time caring for immigrants with a wealthy, flirtatious man whose father wants him to settle down, they can't imagine a more opposite pairing. But as they work together to protect the neighborhood from an epidemic, all they know about love and sacrifice is tested"--
46) Epidemic
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Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Discusses what an epidemic is, how it evolves, various causes and carriers, and efforts to prevent epidemics.
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Choose your own adventure volume 9
Description
Asks the reader to choose the plot path in a story in which most of a medical team researching tropical diseases goes missing in the Amazon jungle, leaving a young doctor--the reader--alone.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 63
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When the quest to find a cure to an epidemic targeting the citizens of New Mouse City is sabotaged, Geronimo Stilton must figure out who's behind it all before he ends up covered in blue spots too.--
49) Contagion
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change, from the Black Death to the coronavirus. This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual...
53) Broken lands
Author
Series
Broken lands volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez teams up with Benny Imura and his gang as they seek to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started--to find a cure for the zombie infection.
54) Coldbrook
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Description
The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.
55) The Strain
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold....
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the COVID pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic. Senator Paul presents the evidence...
57) The fever
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The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher and the proud father of two well-adjusted teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and Deenie, a diligent student. But the Nashes' seeming stability is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Panic spreads through the family, the school, and the community when no cause can be discovered for the mysterious illness. Soon more girls...
58) Typhoid epidemic
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
This title focuses on the Typhoid epidemic and gives information related to its symptoms, causes, and global impact. This hi-lo title is complete with gripping and historical photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.--
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"One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...