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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157559003321

Autore

Michael Sean

Titolo

Add Love and Mix

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dreamspinner Press

ISBN

1-63477-890-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Firefighter Jason "Jase" Weller and EMT Scott Bronson are living the perfect life. They work together in jobs they love, they live together, and in their downtime, they still can't get enough of each other. It's been six amazing years. Then on Christmas Eve, Jase's former lover Elsa shows up with a six-year-old girl in tow. The strung-out junkie claims Kerry is Jase's daughter and it's his turn to care for her, and then she walks out. Shocked at both the fact that Elsa is now a junkie and that he has a daughter he never knew about, Jase nonetheless steps up to the plate as her father and Scott offers his full support. Having an instant family comes with plenty of challenges, and the two men work to deal with sweeping changes in their lives and to make things right for Kerry. It's not going to be easy, and their new circumstances test them and their relationship like nothing ever has. They'll need all the love they have for each other--and the love they discover for their daughter--to keep from breaking apart.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780648903321

Autore

Callahan Joan R

Titolo

Emerging biological threats [[electronic resource] ] : a reference guide / / Joan R. Callahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, CA, : Greenwood Press, c2010

ISBN

3-13-372094-5

1-282-38593-3

9786612385933

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

Non-Series

Disciplina

362.196''9-dc22

571.992

Soggetti

Emerging infectious diseases

Health risk assessment

Food security

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Public Health: A Short History; Koch and His Postulates; Hazard, Threat, and Risk; Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics; What Is Popular Culture?; More Definitions; So How Bad Is It?; 2. Five Big Ones; HIV Disease and AIDS; Malaria; Tuberculosis; Influenza; Hepatitis B and C; 3. Five More (and Complications); Measles; Dysenteries and Enteric Fevers; Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; Bad Bugs and Miracle Drugs; Emerging Diseases; What about Pneumonia?; What about Meningitis and Encephalitis?; Conclusion; 4. Food Insecurity

What about Bees?Mad Cow Disease; Foot-and-Mouth Disease; Anthrax; Rinderpest; Heartwater; Classical Swine Fever; Blue-Ear Pig Disease; Newcastle Disease; Avian Influenza; Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder; Conclusion; 5. Food Insecurity, Continued; Citrus Tristeza Virus; Bacterial Wilt; Southern Corn Leaf Blight; Citrus Canker; Late Blight of Potato; Soybean Rust; Witches' Broom Disease; Phoma Stem Canker; Asian Soybean Aphid; Locusts; Conclusion: One to Grow On; 6. Making Things Worse; Too Many Babies: Overpopulation; Too Much Carbon: Global Climate Change



Not Enough Food: Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and DeathToo Much Food: Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes; Too Many Sick People: The Healthcare Crisis; Too Many Angry People: Bioterrorism; Too Many Experts: The Bogus Health Industry; Too Many Drugs: Substance Abuse; Too Much UV: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Revisited; Too Many Cooks: Environmental Management Issues; Conclusion; 7. Fighting Back; Part 1: Balking the Enemy's Plans; Health Education; Better Food; A Higher Power; Basic Research; Water, Toilets, and Garbage; Part 2: Preventing the Junction of the Enemy's Forces

Lookouts: Surveillance and ScreeningArming the People: Vaccination; Holding the Line: Convenient Barriers; The Fifth Column: Ringers and Decoys; A Clean Camp: Home, School, and Workplace; Part 3: Attacking the Enemy's Army in the Field; Killing the Enemy: Snipers and WMDs; Disabling the Enemy's Transportation: Inconvenient Barriers; Destroying the Enemy's Resources: Habitat Modification; Enlisting Allies: Biological Controls; Bugout: Postexposure Prophylaxis; Part 4: Besieging Walled Cities; Mopping Up: Disease Eradication and Elimination; Occupation: Public Health Enforcement

Recruitment: Help WantedWho's Going to Pay for This?; Tuberculosis: The Million-Year War; Postscript: Making Friends; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

What biological agents should we truly be afraid of? Which have garnered more attention than they warrant? <i>Emerging Biological Threats: A Reference Guide</i> is the antidote for the confusion surrounding the potentially devastating impact of pathogens on the human community. Written by a frontline professional in epidemiology, it is the most authoritative yet engagingly written resource available on the real risks we face, and the countermeasures used to confront them.    <i>Emerging Biological Threats</i> provides the information needed to understand significant direct threats to human he