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Bird Flu: Expert Advice to Help You and Your Family Stay Safe
Bird Flu Expert Advice to Help You and Your Family Stay Safe Author:Bradford L. Frank, MD, MPH, MBA Bird Flu: Expert Advice to Help You and Your Family Stay Safe is up-to-date, authoritative, and packed with useful information for anyone who is concerned about a bird-flu pandemic. It reviews the basics of infectious diseases, with a special emphasis on avian (bird) and human influenza. It compares and contrasts a potential bird-flu pandem... more »ic with two highly relevant pandemics, the Spanish Flu of 1918-19, and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic of 2003. Medical, psychological, and financial aspects of a potential bird-flu pandemic are discussed in detail. Questions about our current state of preparedness, including the use of antiviral drugs and vaccines are fully explored. What the potential pandemic will be like, and exactly what people need to do to prepare, are spelled out in great detail. Although this book is easy reading, it is based upon scientific facts with several hundred references.« less