Midthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the human body's immune response to infectious disease"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.07 MIDHernández, Daisy
Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 616.9 HERHernández, Daisy
Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 HERSummary: A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PLAMacgregor, Eloise
Summary: As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world, it's left many adults and children searching for answers about how they can stay safe. By focusing on facts presented in a relatable way rather than fear, this illustrated guide to health and safety gives children the tools they need to understand what's happening in the world and to discover how they can become a virus warrior. Facts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.2 MACSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the transmission and treatment of diseases spread from person to person, along with facts about prevention, self-care, and drug resistance. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 CONHonigsbaum, Mark
Summary: Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HONHansen, Grace
Summary: Factual yet simple text about the rise of COVID-19, how it spreads, and steps we can take to avoid spreading disease to others. Colorful diagrams show how viruses enter a host and replicate in cells, and explain how lower-respiratory illnesses affect people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 HANSummary: Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ILesage, Marla
Summary: "In this picture book, readers are introduced to all sorts of professionals and other people who wear masks in their daily lives and are reminded that wearing a mask to limit the spread of germs is an act of kindness."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LESShepard, Jim
Summary: "A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEQuinlan, Heather
Summary: "Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 QUISummary: "A gripping tale of microbes, medicine and money, Under our skin exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease, one of the most controversial and fastest growing epidemics of our time. Each year, thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are 'all in their head.' Following the stories of patients and physicians fighting for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Eye Pictures 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNDLaughlin, Kara L.
Summary: "A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 LAUSummary: "Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer: What just happened to us, and why? And crucially, how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time. The Covid war showed Americans that their wondrous scientific knowledge had run far ahead of their organized ability to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LESSummary: As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. Surviving Ebola includes chilling firsthand interviews of what it's like to catch and survive this terrible affliction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURQuammen, David
Summary: "The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 QUAThomas, Rachael L.
Summary: This title examines actions of national leaders to combat the spread of COVID-19 such as the Trump Administration's declaration of a public health emergency and creation of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the WHO's pandemic declaration, and the actions of national governors and global leaders to stop the spread.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.00904 THONielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: When the lethal plague known as the Scourge returns to Keldan the victims are sent to Attic Island, and Ani Mells of the River People is among them--but Ani does not feel sick, and with the help of her best friend, Weevil, she sets out to uncover the truth of what is happening, and expose the lies the people of Keldan have been told.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION NIEMessner, Kate
Summary: "With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "15 years after the virus won, civilization has fallen back to the Dark Ages. Plunge into the post-apocalyptic world and explore the reaches of one of the last standing cities. Shape it with your choices and face the consequences, as you decide its fate."--Container.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Levitt, Alexandra.
Summary: Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LEVSummary: Planet terror: A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. The gun-legged Cherry and one-man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from the horde of flesh-eating...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co., LLC. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GRILeacock, Matt
Summary: You and your fellow players are members of a skilled disease control team. You must work together to prevent disease outbreaks before 4 deadly diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black and Red) contaminate humanity while discovering their cures. You and your teammates will travel across the globe, treating infections while finding resourcese for cures. Pandemic is a cooperative game. The players all win or...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Z-Man Games 2012